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I think the first
thing that I thought of

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was in failure in my feet.

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And that's because I've always
had problems with my feet

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as a child.

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One of my feet was
turned all the way in.

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I had to wear a reverse
last shoe and a brace, all

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that good stuff.

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And then I had surgery on my
feet when I was a teenager.

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And I had this bone
stuff going on.

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So in some ways,
like I was thinking,

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it feels like that's always been
this kind of site of failure.

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But then, I started
thinking, well,

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it feels like it's kind
of in my left brain.

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I have to just be really a
materialist about the brain,

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but it feels like it's there.

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Because I've been
working on being

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open to the plasticity of
my brain and kind of getting

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rewired through acupuncture and
meditation and letting things

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go.

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And in your right
mind, your right brain,

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is where there's all
the spirituality.

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I don't know.

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Has anybody ever seen--

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she gave a TED talk--

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Jill Nolte Taylor?

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Jill Bolte Taylor.

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Bolte Taylor, right, right.

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What is it called?

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"My Stroke of Insight."

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Oh, yeah.

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Right?

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So, when she had the
stroke in her left brain,

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her right brain is
just wild, right?

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And there's all
this spirituality.

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She's not attached to
the illusion of the real

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and that kind of concreteness.

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And it's just all this space,
and all this possibility,

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and all this love,
and all this joy.

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And she didn't have all that
the chatter from the other side

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shutting that down.

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And I feel like, you know
what I'm talking about,

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it's in my feet.

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And there's that
memory and everything.

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But it's in that
particular place

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where, if I keep
reworking those synapses

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and re-feeding that
information there,

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then it gets more solidified.

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I've been working
on releasing that.

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And so that goes with the
idea of the empty moments

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and the no-mind and the
release and the surrender

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on the other side,
and that balance.

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And that's really
what I'm working

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to be open, really open to.

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And there's the
ambitious failures, which

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are all about possibility.

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Which I feel like I was
really grateful to be

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able to experience those.

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Not saying with you guys, that
you were ambitiously failing.

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Maybe you were
ambitiously succeeding.

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But I feel like I definitely
did some ambitious failing

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last night.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And often.

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Those are such
beautiful answers.

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If anybody ever asks
us why we need artists,

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they can spin failure
into redemption on a dime.

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Right?

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Magic.

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So beautiful.

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All right, so one last
question here for us.

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If you're writing is a
gesture in the world,

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what does this
gesture look like?

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So, you could posture
that, if you want.

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You could get up and
leave, if you want.

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You could turn your back
to us all, if you want.

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You can just write in silence.

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Or just stand up and hold
a pose, or talk to us.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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That's often the
gesture that is needed.

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I'm not sure yet.

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Doug always saves the day.

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Ouw!

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[LAUGHTER]

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