This TED Talk features podcaster and actress Shannon Lee recorded live at TED Salon, Rethink, 2019.

Bruce Lee is my father, and he's best well known as a martial artist and an action film star, as I'm sure most of you know.

He died when I was four years old, but I have a really deep

memory of him. I don't have those long-form storied memories that you do when you're older,

but the memory that I do have is of the feeling of him. I remember his energy, his presence, his love, the safety of it, the power of it,

the radiance of it. And to me, that memory is very deep and personal. And it is the memory of

the quality of his essential nature.

What a lot of people don't know about my father is that he was also a philosopher.

He had a very ever-evolving philosophy that he lived.

And it is that distinction that he lived his philosophy and didn't just espouse his

philosophy that made him the force of nature that he was and still engages us today. His wisdom

has salvaged me many times in my life when my brother died, when my heart's been broken,

whenever I have faced a challenge to my mind,

my body or my spirit,

the way that he expressed himself has lifted me up.

And so I come to you today not as a researcher

or an educator or a guru or even a life coach,

but as a student of Bruce Lee, as his daughter, and also as a student of my own life.

So my big burning question that I want you all to consider today is,

how are you?

Let me elaborate.

Whenever anyone would ask my mom what my father was like, she would say how he was in front

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