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The power of self-acceptance

Harry Baker · TED

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About

Poets and doctors both save lives, just in different ways. World-champion slam poet Harry Baker shares the heartache of forfeiting the path of medicine for a self-guided career in poetry and writing. This talk is an ode to choosing to be different, woven through two poems that sing with universal truth. While he won't help the world by becoming a doctor, as he puts it, poetry is just "a less quantifiable way of saving lives."

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@State Street London
Speaker
Harry Baker
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Literature and writing
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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