the human body to all joints and five
bones in an arm there are hundreds of
thousands of cheesy songs with the word
arm in the title died in your arm by
cutting crew this one definitely ring
some bells there are 477 words with the
word arm in it charm farm firearm alarm
armadillo armor disarm 477 it’s crazy
but the reason the hi I’m Liam gaida and
my story begins on summer vacation 2014
I was playing baseball with my brother
and a couple of my cousin’s my brother
hit a home run and I tried to stop him
from getting to home base but he wasn’t
stopping he plowed into my arm and broke
both the bones of my wrist and the only
pology I ended up getting out of him was
that he apologized for landing on me
instead of home base so the reason that
I’m here is to tell you all that you
should let nothing in your life be
defined as an obstacle or if so a
challenge to overcome and that’s what I
want to spread with you the audience in
the world but now back to the story
further I was then told that I would
have a full arm cast on my left arm for
the rest of the summer and instead of
giving up on my summer and losing all
fun I chose to do my favorite thing with
one arm surfing the first day of surfing
was the worst day of my life I didn’t
catch a single wave but day after day
after day I kept practicing and I was
able to surf better with one arm than to
that summer ended up being the best
summer of my life because I ended up
being able to bike skateboard fish I
even ran a 5k one-armed but then I I was
feeling pretty good about myself almost
like a hero until I thought about the
people who excel with one arm
permanently for a living Bethany
Hamilton Bethany Hamilton is an
extremely talented woman surfer who
suffered a critical shark attack in 2003
losing her entire left arm after years
of motivation and practice for getting
back in the water she won her first
international title two years after the
attack and became a pro woman surfer so
I got to thinking that they’re not only
people who live with limbs from who live
with no limbs permanently but people
to seduce who choose to go throughout
life choosing professions that demand
the use of limbs take Tony Melendez Tony
Melendez was born with the side effect
of the drug thalidomide which causes
which pregnant women take while they
were pregnant with their children but
they didn’t know that it caused limb
loss at the time he was born with no
arms and could you guess his profession
yes he learned how to be a professional
guitar player so while researching about
him I thought about the Venus de Milo
the Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek
sculpture that was believed to be
created in 100 bc our artisan critics
were raving about it in 1820 not because
of its beauty but because of its lack of
arms it suggested that she was beautiful
but broken perfect but imperfect and
from then I noticed that we had an
instant similarity we both made arms our
thing hers through a piece of art and
mine through a TED talk so what we need
to do is turn our thinking around if
you’re missing an arm either temper
temper airily or permanently you need to
stop trying to fit in and celebrate who
you are and this type of thinking needs
to start when you’re a kid the company
toy like me represents millions of
children’s with missing limb throughout
the world and makes dolls that
represents their missing limbs so they
can stop trying to fit in and celebrate
their missing limbs and also encourage
them to go throughout life with
wheelchair or prosthetics and have a
friend so to wrap it all up and save
your time I noticed that after all this
I became the guy who instead of who
instead of not surfing because it’s one
arm slowed him down the guy who could
surf because his arm motivated him I’m
the guy who’s crushing this TED talk
about arms what’s your biggest problem
stop complaining and get to work it’s really your thing thank you