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Why being your true self is the most selfless act

Kelly Lepley · TED

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About

With a lesson for us all, UPS Pilot Kelly Lepley shares her painful and liberating journey from male to female. She shares how her life in hiding made her less generous and less present, and caused everyone from her family, co-workers and the larger community, to suffer. In this deeply personal talk, she explains how the pain of inauthenticity can make us selfish, while embracing ourselves has the potential to make us selfless in ways we never imagined.

The talk

  1. Why being your true self is the most selfless act 9 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@UPS
Speaker
Kelly Lepley
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
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.
Who can watch
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