The Person You Become

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of our lives, we shed parts of our old selves, embrace new ones, and redefine who we are. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the experiences that shape the person we become. Guests include aerobatics pilot and public speaker Janine Shepherd, writers Roxane Gay and Taiye Selasi, activist Jackson Bird, and fashion executive Kaustav Dey.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:07.0	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:10.0	Ted.
0:11.0	Ted.
0:12.0	Technology.
0:13.0	Entertainment. Design.
0:14.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:15.0	I'm never known that it's delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
0:18.0	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:19.0	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:22.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:26.0	Those talks, those ideas, adapted for radio.
0:31.0	From NPR.
0:33.0	I'm Guy Razz.
0:37.0	If somebody came up to you and asked you what your identity was,
0:44.0	how would you answer that question?
0:47.0	I would probably say, I'm not my body.
0:52.0	This is Jeanine Sheppard.
0:54.0	And from the time Jeanine was young, it was clear she was born an athlete.
0:59.0	So I started as a sprinter, runner, and all sorts of track and field events.
1:05.0	But I really found my way when I got into cross-country skiing,
1:09.0	probably because I had an extremely high oxygen uptake.
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