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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.28,0:00:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Amy Walker and I'm a believaholic.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.36,0:00:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Audience) Hi, Amy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.67,0:00:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.39,0:00:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that you are capable\Nof anything you set your mind to.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.18,0:00:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people ask me\Nto teach them a new skill,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.30,0:00:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're really asking for me\Nto believe that they're capable of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.76,0:00:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.94,0:00:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They just don't quite think\Nthat they can, yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.29,0:00:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I show them,\Nover and over, that it is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.58,0:00:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In small enough increments,\NI help them expand their identity
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.12,0:00:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that even though they begin by saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.32,0:00:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I'm just taking lessons,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.57,0:00:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gradually, they'll expand their identity
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.54,0:00:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to include the title\N"I'm a singer," "I'm an actor," etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.88,0:00:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not begin this way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.20,0:00:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the tender age of 14,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.22,0:01:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was your above-average student\Nwith below-average confidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.62,0:01:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Depressed, apologetic, and not popular.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.18,0:01:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't until the end\Nof my middle-school internment,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.84,0:01:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.13,0:01:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the eighth-grade dance,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.48,0:01:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all that began to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.15,0:01:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd somehow managed to squeeze my way
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.18,0:01:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the impenetrable circle\Nof popular people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.85,0:01:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly out of my element,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.62,0:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began doing what I always did then\Nand looked around for someone to copy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.95,0:01:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I perused all those faces,\Nwith too much dark lipliner,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.15,0:01:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that these popular people,\Nwho always know what they're doing, right,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.60,0:01:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were looking around\Nfor someone else to follow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.92,0:01:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I just closed my eyes\Nand said to myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.73,0:01:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Amy Frances Walker,\Ndoesn't matter what they think.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.47,0:01:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music is in your blood.\NYou've been singing since the highchair.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.60,0:01:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely, you can dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.63,0:02:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just don't realize it yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.99,0:02:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you reach into your heart,\Nand you feel the pulse of that music
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.83,0:02:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let it carry your body into dance."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.88,0:02:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I opened my eyes,\NI noticed that they were all following me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.74,0:02:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, I had the opportunity to become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.40,0:02:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"She who knows how to dance\Nat social gatherings."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.59,0:02:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.02,0:02:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a big deal for a 14-year-old,\Ngrunge-era fashion casualty.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.68,0:02:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.50,0:02:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we encounter a crossroads:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.39,0:02:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The opportunity to be
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.91,0:02:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not to be
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.03,0:02:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something we've been\Nlonging to experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.82,0:02:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to look at\Na beautiful person and think,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.37,0:02:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"She is so gorgeous.\NI could never look like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.45,0:02:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, as we all know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.18,0:03:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire world is only allowed\N2000 beauty points, total.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.91,0:03:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.52,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since Beyoncé and Juliette Binoche\Nare obviously 900 points each,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.06,0:03:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I must be like a point zero-zero-two\Nor something, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.45,0:03:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if I can look at a rotting leaf\Nin a way that I see the beauty in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.26,0:03:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearly, beauty is not a substance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.62,0:03:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a material\Nthat only certain things are made of.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.34,0:03:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things like:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.58,0:03:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Raindrops on roses\Nand whiskers on kittens,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.19,0:03:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Julie Andrews\Nbecause we're all smitten,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.77,0:03:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beauty is found in all manner of things,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.98,0:03:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beauty's the way you behold how it sings."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.63,0:03:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.96,0:03:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to practice seeing\Nthe abundance of beauty around me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.51,0:04:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more deeply I observed\Nbeauty singing in every form,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.46,0:04:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more I began to see it in myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.44,0:04:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started rewriting a bunch of old labels\NI'd been carrying for a long time:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.85,0:04:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not thin enough, not pretty enough,\Nnot talented enough, not good enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.81,0:04:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a challenge to break\Nold judgment patterns
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.65,0:04:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've been identifying with for so long,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.30,0:04:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often without even being aware of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.21,0:04:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be scary.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.14,0:04:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had to abandon the relative comfort
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.14,0:04:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of who I think I am
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.03,0:04:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the possibility of whom I may become.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.91,0:04:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.78,0:04:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can require courage, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.76,0:04:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as a wise fish once said,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.14,0:04:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.44,0:04:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just keep swimming.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.66,0:04:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Swimming, swimming. What do we we do?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.02,0:04:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We swim, ha hahaha.\NI thank you, Alan and Pixar."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.70,0:04:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.30,0:04:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dory.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.28,0:05:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Courage is not the absence of fear;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.65,0:05:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's when you just keep swimming\Nand sing louder than the voice of doubt.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.20,0:05:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so as you watch these speakers today,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.24,0:05:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I invite you to practice seeing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.72,0:05:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beauty and the potential\Nin each one of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.49,0:05:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even beyond the wonders\Nthat they present today.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.81,0:05:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you offer them an opportunity to grow,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.01,0:05:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll find that empowerment\Nreflected back to you
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.02,0:05:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're all here\Nto share what they've learned
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.54,0:05:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you might take it\Nto new heights on your own path.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.84,0:05:32.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.05,0:05:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)