Name: 【TED】Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable (Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi)
Uploaded: 2018-01-02T13:17:32.000Z
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the shoddy systems and the people who refuse to do better,

as a writer, as a speaker, as a shady Nigerian --

I feel like my purpose is to be this cat.

I am the person who is looking at other people,

I want us to leave this world better than we found it.

by being the first and by being the domino.

which then leaves the other choiceless to do the same.

the next person that sees this is inspired to be a domino.

Being the domino, for me, looks like speaking up

and doing the things that are really difficult,

with the hope that others will follow suit.

And here's the thing: I'm the person who says

what you might be thinking but dared not to say.

A lot of times people think that we're fearless,

What happens is, we feel like we have to,

because there are too few people in the world

too few people willing to take that fall.

I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I was Doc McStuffins before it was a thing.

my freshman year, I had to take Chemistry 101

I got the first and last D of my academic career.

because this doctor thing is not going to work,

And that same semester, I started blogging.

So as that one dream was ending, another was beginning.

And then what was a cute hobby became my full-time job

But it still took me two more years to say, "I'm a writer."

Nine years after I had started writing, before I said, "I'm a writer,"

without, "How am I going to keep up my shoe habit?

So it took me that long to own this thing

of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

I'm not going to let fear dictate what I do."

And then all of these awesome things started happening,

So when I realized that, I was like, "OK, 2015,

it's going to be my year of 'Do it anyway.'

Anything that scares me, I'm going to actively pursue it."

I decided to take my first-ever solo vacation,

and it was out of the country to the Dominican Republic.

I went ziplining through the forests of Punta Cana.

And for some odd reason, I had on business casual.

Also, I don't like being submerged in water.

So I went to Mexico and swam with dolphins underwater.

And then the cool thing that I did also that year

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【TED】Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable (Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi)

realize

integrity

applause

crap