How to discover your authentic self -- at any age (w/ Bevy Smith)

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  Ted audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.

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  I am your host, Chris Duffy.

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  When I was a little kid, I was positive that I was going to grow up to be a marine biologist.

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  I was obsessed.

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  I even had these printed out color maps of the ocean currents that I got from the woods Hole oceanographic institution.

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  And I would study those maps and think, this is going to be so useful when I'm a grown up.

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  Well, that turned out to not be the case.

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  I have never once in my adult life needed to be able to draw the ocean currents from memory.

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  It's not something that comes up very often.

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  Later on, I thought I was going to be a doctor, and then I thought I was going to be a neuroscientist.

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  And then I thought I was going to be a journalist.

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  And when I think back on each of those dreams and on my younger self, I love how passionate I would get each time.

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  And I laugh at how very, very, very far I am currently from being a doctor.

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  And that's not in the cards at the moment.

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  I think sometimes as we get older, we feel like we no longer have permission to dream big or to imagine new, exciting life paths and different versions of ourselves.

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  But that doesn't have to be the case, as today's guest, the incredible Bebbie Smith, makes very clear in her TED talk.

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  Here's a clip.

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  I am a late bloomer.

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  In fact, a friend of mine you may have heard of, Chris Rock.

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  He once called me the most late blooming mofo he'd ever met.

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