A love letter to realism in a time of grief | Mark Pollock and Simone George

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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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When faced with life's toughest circumstances, how should we respond: as an optimist, a realist or something else? In an unforgettable talk, explorer Mark Pollock and human rights lawyer Simone George explore the tension between acceptance and hope in times of grief -- and share the groundbreaking work they're undertaking to cure paralysis.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features explorer Mark Pollock and human rights lawyer Simone George,
0:06.0	recorded live at TED 2018.
0:10.0	I met Mark when he was just blind.
0:13.0	I had returned home to live in Dublin after the odyssey that was my 20s,
0:19.0	educating my interest in human rights and equality in university,
0:23.6	traveling the world like my nomad grandmother,
0:27.3	and during a two-year stint working in Madrid,
0:31.0	dancing many nights till morning in salsa clubs.
0:36.3	When I met Mark, he asked me to teach him to dance, and I did.
0:41.6	They were wonderful times, long nights talking, becoming friends, and eventually falling for
0:47.3	each other.
0:49.4	Mark had lost his sight when he was 22, and the man that I met eight years later
0:54.4	was rebuilding his identity,
0:57.2	the cornerstone of which was this incredible spirit
1:00.6	that had taken him to the Gobi Desert,
1:03.2	where he ran six marathons in seven days,
1:06.5	and to marathons at the North Pole
1:08.2	and from Everest base camp.
1:13.7	When I asked him what had led to this high-octane life, he quoted Nietzsche. He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
1:23.2	He had come across the quote in a really beautiful book called Man Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel.
1:29.3	A neurologist and psychiatrist who survived years in a Nazi concentration camp,
1:35.3	Frankel used this Nietzsche quote to explain to us
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