Name: 【TED】Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality (How I made friends with reality | Emily Levine)
Uploaded: 2018-06-13T16:57:50.000Z
Duration: 15 min 43 s
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I'm going to first tell you something that in my grandmother

And granted, I have certain advantages --

not everybody can take so cavalier an attitude.

I have a grown daughter who's brilliant and happy and wonderful.

It's kind of like the Democratic leadership --

waiting for Goldman Sachs to give it some money.

I have a major accomplishment under my belt.

I didn't even know it until someone tweeted me a year ago.

for the pussification of the American male."

Not that I can take all the credit, but ...

But what if you don't have my advantages?

The only advice I can give you is to do what I did:

You couldn't have a worse relationship with reality than I did.

and the whole thing would have been over.

we don't share the same values, the same goals --

They're exactly like goals but without the hard work.

through its agent, the executive brain function --

my executive brain function won't have me to kick around anymore.

because I basically wanted reality to leave me alone --

but I wanted to be left alone in a nice house

with a Wolf range and Sub-Zero refrigerator ...

I ended up with a development deal at Disney.

And one day I found myself in my new office

which reality thought I should be proud of ...

And I'm staring at the present they sent me to celebrate my arrival --

not the Lalique vase or the grand piano I've heard of other people getting,

but a three-foot-tall, stuffed Mickey Mouse

with a catalog, in case I wanted to order some more stuff

to see how much this three-foot-high mouse cost,

So I dived into quantum physics and chaos theory

and anyway, it wasn't until after we shot the movie,

when I broke my leg and then it didn't heal,

so then they had to do another surgery a year later,

and that's when I came into contact with actual reality:

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【TED】Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality (How I made friends with reality | Emily Levine)

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