The Misfit (Encore)
Whose Amazing Life?
Wondery
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
You love electronics - building them, taking them apart, and figuring out how things work. Sometimes, people don't understand you and it's hard to fit in, but you know that if you can just get people to think a little differently, you'll create electronics that will change the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Who's Amazing Life early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.7 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or Wondry Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:15.5 | From Wondry, I'm Ned Donovan, and this is Who's Amazing Life? |
| 0:23.5 | You've heard of people who changed the course of history, but before they made their mark on the world, they were people, like you and me, still figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives. |
| 0:35.9 | On this episode, you will be that person everyone knows. |
| 0:40.4 | You might be a musician or an athlete, a scientist, or a painter. |
| 0:47.6 | You may know what the person accomplished later in life, but now you can experience everything |
| 0:53.6 | they faced along the way, from challenges |
| 0:56.2 | and heartbreak to triumphs and excitement, all the moments that built this person into someone |
| 1:02.3 | who would change the world. There will be clues, so pay attention, but only at the end will |
| 1:09.5 | you find out who you are. |
| 1:12.4 | So sit back and imagine your amazing life as the misfit. |
| 1:20.6 | Imagine you are nine years old standing in the hallway of your elementary school, |
| 1:28.3 | happily watching the chaos all around you. |
| 1:31.6 | School is usually a pretty orderly place, but not today. |
| 1:36.2 | This morning, your school feels more like a circus or a stampede. |
| 1:41.8 | Students struggle to hold back their golden retrievers from lunging at tabby cats in their |
| 1:47.4 | plastic carriers. |
| 1:49.3 | Kids squeal as an iguana streaks past their feet. |
| 1:53.4 | A set of bright red parrots have escaped their cage and flown up to the ceiling. |
| 1:58.9 | Teachers flail about trying to maintain order. Settle down, children. |
| 2:03.0 | Get that bird down here this instant. Sit, kitty kitty. |
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