Dr. Tara Narula

She studies resilience.

She writes about it.

She talks about it.

her 12-year-old daughter died in a car accident.

And suddenly the resilience researcher had to use the skills that she had learned to move forward.

And she's given one of the most watched TED Talks in the country.

And the first thing she says is adversity doesn't discriminate.

And I think that is such an important thing.

We're all gonna get hit.

At some point in time, something bad's gonna happen.

But we can't change that.

We have to accept it.

And so to your question, when I was in medical school, I had my own experience where I had to learn acceptance.

I was in my second year of medical school.

I was in the lecture hall, started to see colored lights in the bottom part of my right eye when they would dim the lecture hall lights.

Didn't know what was going on.

Went home to Miami over Christmas break and suddenly discovered through a battery of tests that I had a visual field loss in the bottom part of my right eye.

I was a healthy 23-year-old and suddenly was blind.

The bottom part of my eye, nobody knew why.

They told me I might've had a stroke.