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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TED
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I'm a professional troublemaker.
(Laughter)
As my job is to critique the world,
the shoddy systems and the people who refuse to do better,
as a writer, as a speaker, as a shady Nigerian --
(Laughter)
I feel like my purpose is to be this cat.
(Laughter)
I am the person who is looking at other people,
like, "I need you to fix it."
That is me.
I want us to leave this world better than we found it.
And how I choose to effect change
is by speaking up,
by being the first and by being the domino.
For a line of dominoes to fall,
one has to fall first,
which then leaves the other choiceless to do the same.
And that domino that falls,
we're hoping that, OK,
the next person that sees this is inspired to be a domino.
Being the domino, for me, looks like speaking up
and doing the things that are really difficult,
especially when they are needed,
with the hope that others will follow suit.
And here's the thing: I'm the person who says
what you might be thinking but dared not to say.
A lot of times people think that we're fearless,
the people who do this, we're fearless.
We're not fearless.
We're not unafraid of the consequences
or the sacrifices that we have to make
by speaking truth to power.
What happens is, we feel like we have to,
because there are too few people in the world
willing to be the domino,
too few people willing to take that fall.
We're not doing it without fear.
Now, let's talk about fear.
I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I was like, "I'm going to be a doctor!"
Doctor Luvvie was the dream.
I was Doc McStuffins before it was a thing.
(Laughter)
And I remember when I went to college,
my freshman year, I had to take Chemistry 101
for my premed major.
I got the first and last D of my academic career.
(Laughter)
So I went to my advisor, and I was like,
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