The beauty of being a misfit

Title:: The beauty of being a misfit
Speaker:: Lidia Yuknavitch
Description:: To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of self-acceptance. "Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful," she says. "You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty."

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 12:58

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