After you have watched the short TED Talk, respond to the following questions:
- What is Yuknavitch's thesis or main argument?
- What does Yuknavitch use to back up her claims? What kind of examples does she share with her
audience?
- Does Yuknavitch try to appeal to your logic, your emotions or both? Think about the big three rhetorical
strategies (ethos, pathos, logos) and discuss: Does Yuknavitch effectively appeal to her audience?
(Remember to use specific examples.)
- Do you consider yourself a misfit according to the definition Yuknavitch gives? Why or why not?
- Yuknavitch artfully says, "Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful. You don't know it yet,
but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty" (Yuknavitch). Do you agree with
this statement? What do you thing Yuknavitch is saying about the upside or benefits, even though it is
painful, of failure?
- What was your biggest takeaway or AHA moment from this Talk? What interested you or surprised you
the most?
https://www.ted.com/talks/lidia_yuknavitch_the_beauty_of_being_a_misfit
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