# The beauty of being a misfit

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2016
- Speaker: Lidia Yuknavitch
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Literature and writing
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/lidia_yuknavitch_the_beauty_of_being_a_misfit)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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."

## Lectures

1. [The beauty of being a misfit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/lidia_yuknavitch_the_beauty_of_being_a_misfit/e3e241fc0d4b), 13 min (TED's player)