Desiree Akhavan
👤 Speaker
111
total appearances
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TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
I beg to differ.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
Calm and serene is for other people's benefit.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
The paddling, it turns out, is the good bit.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
The paddling is what it is to be alive.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
I once overheard my father tell someone, I knew I had two choices.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
Get over it or lose my daughter.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
I faced a similar choice.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
live life according to my own standards and risk losing my family, or live according to their rules and never get the opportunity to meet myself.
TED Talks Daily
Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
I took a calculated risk.
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Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
And against all odds, I won.
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Why you should disappoint your parents | Desiree Akhavan (re-release)
Thank you.