1 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,120 So when I was asked to pick 2 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,840 the topic for my TED talk today, I really struggled. 3 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,520 Everybody else had something that was a real calling to them or a story 4 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,280 they'd been waiting to tell and some wonderful ones you've already seen. 5 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,800 And I really didn't have that. 6 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,800 And as the weeks were going by, I was getting more and more concerned. 7 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,440 And I think at one point I had the title Did Google Save My Life, 8 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,760 and that basically waters down to the memoirs of a lot moron 9 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,440 in New York City and which wasn't that interesting. 10 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,640 And so the weeks went by and I was getting a little bit flustered, 11 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,840 so I did what I do quite commonly when I'm feeling like I'm 12 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,760 quite difficult to be around and quite stressed out, booby trap 13 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,720 mum into a day out and force her to spend some time with me. 14 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,640 And so the conversation, which isn't an unusual one, went something like this. 15 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,360 So Lucy, how are you? 16 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:30,720 Fine. 17 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,400 And so you seem a little bit grumpy 18 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,000 and I'll say, Well, it's this TED talk. 19 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,320 I can't think of a single thing to say, you know, I'm 25. 20 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,640 Why don't I have anything that's a calling to me? 21 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,000 Why am I so disinteresting? 22 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,040 Why don't I have any passion? 23 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,080 And I think what she really wants to say to me is 24 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,400 why won't my 25 year old daughter, stop acting like a big adult baby, 25 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,880 but she doesn't say that it's not in the contract of being a mum. 26 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,760 That sort of honesty isn't allowed. 27 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,960 And so instead, she said, Oh, come on, you know, you are interesting. 28 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,640 You just you're putting too much pressure on yourself yet again. 29 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,920 You're getting so overworked, you're getting so anxious, you're putting 30 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,040 too much pressure on coming up with something that you want to be great. 31 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,200 And you get in the way of yourself. 32 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,040 So I thought, Hmm. 33 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,400 Carry on saying nice things. 34 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,640 That's what the old ego needs boost it up. And 35 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,720 I thought, actually, as usual, she's quite right. 36 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,720 And I was having what I could only describe as a sort of a creative block 37 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,080 and being a graphic designer and a creative sort, I like to think hopefully. 38 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,960 This is something that I've come across quite often. 39 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,440 So I decided, how can I make this 40 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,520 useful for anyone here today? 41 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,280 And so I thought the only way to do that is to mentally pick my audience. 42 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,520 So, today you'll be doing a bit of role play 43 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,120 and you will be my class of, I don't know, 2030 design students. 44 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,680 So very exciting day for everybody. 45 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,440 There's not enough flannel shirts and Doc Martens, but I think I'll manage. 46 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:09,240 And so my talk today is going to be the first lecture that I would deliver to 47 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:10,920 a class of design students. 48 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,560 So has anyone 49 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,480 ever had creative block before? 50 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,680 And if you all answer properly, you'll all have your hand, 51 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,200 because creative people and creative students love to be these complex 52 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,360 little creatures and talk about creative block and how they're struggling. 53 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,400 So what is creative block? 54 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,200 Now I described it earlier as kind of an obstruction between getting 55 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,800 from A to B, and that's not meaning to say that the world is split up 56 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,680 into creative people and non creative people. 57 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,200 It's quite the opposite. Everybody is creative. 58 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,600 You know, everyone's found a root here today, 59 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,000 unfortunately, you are all here to watch this. 60 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:56,000 And I've I come across this quite often, 61 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,240 I watched something recently and it said creativity from desperation. 62 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,920 And I really that really spoke to me because I think when you are employed 63 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,720 and your kind of brand and personality is to be the ideas person, 64 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,920 when you run out of ideas, you feel like you have nothing to offer. 65 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,400 So why do creative people struggle in this way? 66 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:21,000 And that's down to, research has shown that basically creative people 67 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,240 and their minds work slightly differently, so they will use different bits 68 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,280 of their brain to communicate which kind of a more logical mind wouldn't, 69 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,080 I mean, has anyone got creative friends that you kind of feel like 70 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,200 you can't keep up with? 71 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,000 I know Deborah won't mind me saying that, 72 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,600 she's definitely a visual kind of representative of that. 73 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,640 When some sometimes she comes into marketing, 74 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,320 she's got so many ideas and I'm there with my Post-it notes trying to keep up. 75 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,520 And it's because that's because she's a creative. 76 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,160 That's how her mind works. 77 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,200 So I'm just going to tell you now a little bit about how when I was younger, 78 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,760 there was perhaps quite a few signs that I was wired differently. 79 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,040 So when I was 80 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,240 the fine age of maybe two and 81 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,400 my parents thought I was deaf, I was at an age where they really thought 82 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,600 that I should be able to communicate and listen to them. 83 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,640 But I was like, No, thank you. 84 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,920 I'm playing lego, I'm busy. 85 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,400 And so they took me to get looked at 86 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,400 and to their relief and I suppose, disappointment. 87 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,640 I was diagnosed as ignorant and 88 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,080 described as very much in my own world, which is definitely something 89 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,600 that people who know me now would rightly describe me as. 90 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,720 So I got a little bit older and I started talking. 91 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,680 But as you can guess, that kind of went a bit haywire as well. 92 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,960 And I would supposedly. 93 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:48,200 I'm told the rumor is that I began every word with the letter D, 94 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,480 and I wouldn't 95 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,200 suggest you try it now, but I think that can make quite a strange noise. 96 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,320 And so my parents were checking 97 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,600 in their loyalty cards at these educational psychologists. 98 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,320 And so as you know, she's talking a little bit funny. 99 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:03,800 Is that OK? 100 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,560 And they said, Yes, she'll grow into it. 101 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,960 Don't worry, she's she's a bright girl. 102 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,960 And I think straight away the term, she's a bright girl suggests that 103 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,120 if you have processes that are different would suggest that you're not bright 104 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,040 when actually it's no reflection on IQ whatsoever. 105 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,560 So then I started writing and got the hat trick was really bad 106 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,480 at all three of those and I would write backwards 107 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,160 and which I don't know if any of you have tried to do it 108 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,640 but I couldn't do that today, so I think that's quite impressive. 109 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,880 Well, obviously it's not the preferred way to write backwards. 110 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,680 So off I go again. 111 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,960 My mum and dad get the loyalty stamps at the observer's office and they said, 112 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,080 I know she'll grow out of it, she'll be absolutely fine. 113 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,080 And I did grow out of it. 114 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,920 I was really happy and really thrived in my education. 115 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,280 There was maybe some sticky bits and spots and difficult times 116 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,600 when I first started, but after that I was really quite happy at school and 117 00:33:58,840 --> 00:33:59,640 did well. 118 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,800 I can always remember being really good in art class. 119 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,800 We would do portraits and draw the kids in front of us. 120 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,760 And I can remember them gathering around and being like 121 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,360 that doesn't look like a potato that looks like a child. 122 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,440 You know, she can. She can draw. 123 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,520 And so I was like, Picasso, step aside. 124 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,440 Here I come. 125 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,320 So if you fast forward a few years 126 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,440 now, and I would be probably about 13 it's the year 127 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,880 the High School Musical came out, a much simpler time for everybody and 128 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,400 not so much my parents because 129 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,040 I had insomnia really terribly for a year and I didn't sleep. 130 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,120 And so in turn, neither did they, 131 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,000 I think you'll find it's quite fun to be a parent of mine. And 132 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,000 basically, I got 133 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,800 completely obsessed with watching the clock backwards. 134 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,600 I could not stop obsessing about it, and in turn, I couldn't turn my mind off. 135 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,800 And then when I was awake, I'd be counting down the time, 136 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,840 so be going back to bed because I would be so worried about it. 137 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,640 And this was the first sign that there was some sort of anxiety and something 138 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,240 that was subconsciously upsetting me, but I wasn't quite sure what it was. 139 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,960 And to this day, I still don't know. 140 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,760 But that was the first kind of indicator that there was something 141 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,040 kind of unbalanced. 142 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,880 So fast forward again, we're doing a lot of fast forwarding 143 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,200 and I'm now studying the graphic design diploma 144 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,800 here in the arts college and my tutor said to me. 145 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,040 Lucy, you do things a bit differently, don't you? 146 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,480 And I'm sat there writing an essay backwards, 147 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,320 probably sitting upside down like, what? What do you mean? 148 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,960 But, not quite as dramatic as that. 149 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,240 There was definitely some processes that I started to notice. 150 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,760 So he said, the best thing for you to do, he knew that I wanted to go to uni. 151 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,360 He said you should go and get looked at and kind of get observed again. 152 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:55,640 A big word. 153 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,760 And so I did. 154 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,360 And the result of that was that I don't know 155 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,080 if any of you have ever seen the dyslexic spectrum before. 156 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,760 If you is design student to probably half of you, that will have seen it 157 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,440 and kind of there's dyslexia and that spread across 158 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,040 between dyslexic dyspraxia and dyscalculia. 159 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:18,240 And I was diagnosed to be just kind of hovering around them. 160 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:19,800 They couldn't specifically say which one. 161 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,880 I just had quirky ways and now being diagnosed, 162 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,800 I was really not interested at all and being diagnosed with dyslexia 163 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,080 and in my case, in my story, I didn't find it interesting. 164 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:32,960 I'm from a generation where people are quite 165 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:37,040 switched on, thankfully to that sort of learning difficulty. 166 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,400 But I found that once I knew there was something 167 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,680 not quite right and I was doing things differently, 168 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,800 I then started to notice all the funny things I did, and I was so incredibly 169 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,520 frustrated all the time, and the report makes me laugh now. 170 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Things like Lucy stands too close to people. 171 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,360 She walks slightly diagonal and all these 172 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,200 all these quirks, and now I laugh about it. 173 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,600 But I think for a 19 year old and going through the usual 174 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,400 struggles of adolescence to adulthood, I just began to feel 175 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,200 very self-conscious of these quirks and things that I was doing. 176 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,160 I would turn up to events on the wrong day. 177 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,760 That happened quite a lot, it still does happen 178 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,640 and I would do all sorts of strange things, 179 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:30,080 I then turned into a slightly more reserved person and I didn't 180 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,000 want to be put into social situations because I would feel awkward and in turn, 181 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,640 friendships started to change because they didn't like this, 182 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,280 they didn't know what to do with this kind of new complex version of myself. 183 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,280 And I think at that time I had become 184 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:50,520 I felt like I was sabotaging my own future, I missed out on job opportunities 185 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,400 because I would start to misunderstand questions or my applications 186 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,840 there would be all sorts of spelling mistakes. 187 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,640 And it wasn't a particularly fun time for me. 188 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,840 So five years later, 189 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,840 I'm standing here today and I'm talking about it, and I'm 190 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,440 completely comfortable with sharing with you.all of these quirks I have 191 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,600 and I hadn't actually realised I was comfortable 192 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,640 talking about it, until maybe about two weeks after Christmas. 193 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,840 I was offered a job. 194 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,800 It was a progression role. 195 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,960 It was exciting and they got in touch with me. 196 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,360 They got me to do some work for them 197 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,400 and they phoned me back and said, Wow, you're creative was amazing. 198 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,080 But did you know there was 21 spelling mistakes, 199 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,040 I'm starting to think it might have been Sam who was on the other end of the phone. 200 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:38,720 Did you 201 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:42,520 know there was 21 spelling mistakes in your design notes? 202 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,480 So I thought, Oh, that's strange. 203 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,160 I thought I was going for a design job, not a writer job. 204 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,640 But long story short, they offered me the job, 205 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,440 but under the caveat that my dyslexia wouldn't be a problem. 206 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,160 And if in the first three months it was, they would have to let me go. 207 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,480 So I thought, Oh, thank you, brilliant offer. 208 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,600 And so they said, Oh, you can have some time to think about it. 209 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,800 But I already knew at that time what I wanted to do so. 210 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,360 I spoke to my husband, I spoke to my parents, 211 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,360 and I rang them back within the hour. 212 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,200 And I said, I'm uncomfortable with accepting a job, that doesn't have 213 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,920 the processes in place to deal with what comes with a creative mind. 214 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,920 And that was quite a substantial moment for me. 215 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:23,520 I didn't have a downer on myself. 216 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,040 I wasn't cross that I had sabotaged another opportunity. 217 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,560 I just thought, Well, he's missed out on this. 218 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:34,880 And I thought I'd really dodged a bullet with the gem that he obviously was. 219 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,120 So. I've worked 220 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,480 at the Institute for coming up three years and which has gone really quickly. 221 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,720 And in that time, I've really realized what environments I thrive in. 222 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,280 And so I know you'll be question in my drawing capabilities after this. 223 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,440 This is a minimalist take. 224 00:39:55,440 --> 00:40:00,200 So this is me at my desk at work, and a typical Lucy 225 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,680 at work is headphones on the girls in the office 226 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,440 often joke when I can't hear, you know princess layer's out again. 227 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,040 And there's always kind of more sophisticated 228 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,200 tunes in the week, such as the XX, when it's Friday, it's pit bull anthems, 229 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,600 but there's always some sort of music going through my ears 230 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,840 because that's the environment that I can work in. 231 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:26,320 Little confession I'm quite messy, but the mess that could have been there 232 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,920 for maybe two months will suddenly become unbearable if I feel muddled in my mind. 233 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,440 I'll be bolt upright and be like bin, bin, bin and I think Chris 234 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,120 who I share an office with really loves that about me. 235 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,920 Keeps him on his toes. 236 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,680 Another thing that I do is as much as I can control it, 237 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,240 I try and leave a lot of time at the end of big projects. 238 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:51,360 Because I do some weird stuff, I, you know, I'll move words around. 239 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,400 I've always said 240 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,840 to my manager and to my colleagues, I'm a really difficult person to prove 241 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,440 because some things I won't even realize I've done, and I'll change words 242 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,520 in a way that so somebody with a logical mind might not have seen it. 243 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,240 And so they obviouslt love 244 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:09,280 that about me as well, I'm the delight of the workplace and at home. 245 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,600 So another thing I have really noticed over the years 246 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:19,120 is that I have accidentally kind of got a really select group of people, 247 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,960 that surround me, that my friends and I understand them and they understand me. 248 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:27,360 And I think that's a very important part 249 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,240 of growing up healthily with a healthy mind. 250 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,800 I think that when you're diagnosed with a learning difficulty or disorder, 251 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:39,840 it's not necessarily spoken about as being a social, socially awkward thing. 252 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,720 But if you can't understand words, then you're missing the key 253 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,200 and, you know, fundamentals of communication. 254 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,640 So why am I oversharing to this extent today? 255 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,240 And I suppose it's because I want it to be the exact opposite of that. 256 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,800 I went to see a comedian last year twice. 257 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:04,240 Number one fan 258 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:07,160 and the comedian was James Acaster, I don't know if any of you 259 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,400 are familiar with him, but he spent about half of his 260 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,520 comedy sketch talking about mental health. 261 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,040 And there's some really, he said, some really difficult things. 262 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,440 And you can imagine a British audience was like, Oh no, shut up. 263 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,680 No, thank you. We're here for laughs, not seriousness. 264 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,640 And they didn't like it, and he was mocking them, and he was basically 265 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,400 trying to make it a discussion and to talk about mental health. 266 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,560 And obviously, I'm not talking about mental health today. 267 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,760 I'm just talking about minds more, particularly my mind, 268 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,840 because it's the only way I have the authority to talk about it. 269 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,840 And I think that it should just be such 270 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,720 a common discussion to talk about, you know, the difficulties of adolescence, 271 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:50,880 the difficult qualities of maybe being creative in some circumstance because 272 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,560 I think that people aren't comfortable with bringing that up as a topic. 273 00:42:54,680 --> 00:43:00,320 So that's why I picked today to imagine you as all keen design students 274 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,600 and trying to make an open space and open forum 275 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,240 that people feel comfortable speaking about it. 276 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:10,040 Now, when I was growing up, it was very much be happy in your own skin. 277 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:11,960 You know, love who you are. 278 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,800 But I think definitely now there's a notion of being happy in your own mind. 279 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,360 And I definitely want to be an advocate of that. 280 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,120 And I suppose this is the only thing that I could really contribute to that notion. 281 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,520 So just a disclaimer. 282 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,360 I'm absolutely not a psychologist. 283 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,120 I'm an expert in very few things. 284 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,280 Probably one thing 285 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,680 and that would be myself as good as an expert as I can be at this moment. 286 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,480 And that's kind of advice I would give to my younger self, 287 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,120 you know, get to know what you thrive in and communicate with people. 288 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,160 So thank you for your time today and thank you for listening.