all right howdy you know what I was told
that I was gonna be able to do this TEDx
tamo I was so excited I said wow this is
global this is big TEDx ideas worth
spreading the whole world is going to
know about it what am I going to talk
about what am I gonna tell people and
then they said hold on we do have a
theme I said okay cool what’s the theme
they said between is miliar ISM and I
said cool
what the heck is Mahler ISM and then I
googled it and luckily Google knew how
to spell it it’s yeah I didn’t know
metaphysical thinking that progress is a
real concept leading to an improvement
of the world oh-kay sounds philosophical
so I went to one of my philosophy
colleagues and I asked him I played it
off like I knew what I was talking about
right I said so dr. so-and-so what’s
your take on miliar ISM and he said
never heard of it
great so I did what I do every time I
left to my own devices you know I become
an engineer and I broke things down all
right metaphysical thinking metaphysical
is a highly abstract or abstruse thing
difficult to comprehend and pronounced
seriously progress onward or forward
movement toward a destination what’s
your progress
who doesn’t want progress for the world
right everybody wants the world to be
better I mean there’s some people who
don’t want the world to be better they
want to destroy but those people are
wacky and they’re not important those
people just need help but if you walk
into a classroom a first-grade classroom
and you say how many of you want to
change the world they’re all gonna go
move
I don’t even know what that means
seriously I mean who doesn’t want to
change the world the worldís that’s what
we are here the world that I I’m walking
around thinking the world what’s the
world actually what is the world and
Siri answered because she’s always
listening she’s like a nosy neighbor she
said the earth the world is the earth
together with all of its countries
peoples and natural features and I
thought
yikes I have to talk to you about
improving all of that how the heck am I
gonna do that right or maybe I’ll think
about the world there is natural
features of the automated countries but
you’ll talk about how to prevent floods
or tsunamis or earthquakes and I know I
can’t do that I’m not that smart they’re
smarter people doing that I’ll work on
people I know that’s what I’ll do I’ll
make people better I know I’ll invent an
app that will shock a person every time
right and they’ll be nicer because the
shots will get worse with every asinine
thing they do it’ll be great you don’t
want to meet somebody’s being rude to
you’re talking to somebody and they
start looking at their phone you just
somebody cuts you off in traffic oh
that’s a big or they take your parking
spot forget about it all right I think
in two weeks everybody’s gonna look just
like that but then I had a thought and I
thought well I’m gonna have to write the
algorithm for this app which means I’m
gonna have to decide what is shockworthy
and what is not what is right and what
is wrong what is rude and what it’s not
rude what’s the right thing to think
what’s the right thing to do I don’t
know about that but isn’t that what’s
going on right now in the world people
telling me all the time everywhere what
to think what to do how to do it were to
March we’re not to March what to take
down what to put up I don’t I don’t want
that that’s what I realized exactly what
I want to tell you about Miller ISM it’s
because by focusing out there all the
time in making and thinking and making
the world better we are not spending
enough time thinking and focusing on the
world that needs to get better which is
the one in here you know
I grew up in Puerto Rico and in Puerto
Rico when I was a child nobody asked me
ever if I wanted to make the world a
better place nobody the question itself
implies that the world is not good and
my world was perfect are you kidding me
out I was a cutie-pie
yeah look at me every day I had an
attitude when I was a little very very
young but then you know as a young woman
I graduated kindergarten and I became a
lady but my world was perfect
I had no questions and no problems with
the world my family was amazing we spent
all this time together
right there on the
upper left you see my father and two
uncles I don’t know what we were fishing
for I don’t know that crawfish or its
even edible but we were out there and
you know it was great my dad worked for
IBM the uncle andhe on your left there
is a doctor and the one that looks very
confused and attorney of course and and
you see me there in the middle between
my dad and my my uncle I was always in
the middle I was always in there I
wanted to share with my dad I wanted to
take all the risks I wanted to do all of
the things that were really out there it
was fun that was the kind of world I
grew up in bottom rotor you see that’s
how I spent all my summers that’s in a
little island of the east coast of
Puerto Rico for Culebra it’s an absolute
paradise I mean we didn’t even know we
were in paradise but we were there and
what I remember about that photo is that
we posed for that we actually always
showered that day and wore our best see
we had no shoes 30 wore shoes ever it
was fantastic I mean we didn’t have
power but we did have running water the
same kind of running water SIG’s regular
talking talks about you know the one you
got to run and get we had that so we all
showered for that and I remember that
photo and then on the upper right-hand
side there you see my family my
immediate family my dad my mom my
sisters my brother that’s the day that
we left Porto Rico to move to Houston
Texas we wanted to blend in so you know
we just wore what we knew we saw it in
the movies we’ve seen movies about Texas
we’ve gone in the frontier we gotta wear
this stuff you know I’m talking about we
got some funny looks at the airport but
well we got the Houston we kind of
looked like the people my parents were
great my mother my mother taught me
about beauty and humor she was a
beautiful woman that you know cared
about being beautiful but also cared
about being fun and not taking her surf
cell theory seriously
she took duty very seriously she taught
me you have to go to school you have to
get an education you have to behave in a
certain way and
these things she did do that but when it
came to just taking herself seriously
not really and as she got older as you
can see she really let go of that that’s
her with a french fry in her nose I mean
do you have a picture of your mother
with a french fry in her nose I think
you need to ask her to do that and see
what she says my dad my dad was amazing
my dad was all about doing crazy stuff
taking a risk stepping outside of the
box do not do what everybody else does
he loved airplanes he loved fixing
things I think that’s why I went into
aerospace engineering my dad was my dad
that’s him right there
that’s a dc-3 1925 he is on the
propeller of that dc-3 that is at East
LA get on the airport in Puerto Rico
that’s an airport my dad is on the
propeller of a dc-3 and I’m thinking who
the heck took that picture you know who
his father his father said you climb up
there you get up there I’ll take a
picture of you you’ll come right back
down and that’s how my dad grew up and
that’s what he did for us too he was
always so happy to do something new
always caring about the people around
them and making sure that he brought his
best to everything he always told me he
didn’t tell me what I needed to do never
my dad never said this is what you have
to do but my dad did say you can do and
be anything you can imagine he said
you’re the genie hmm and I thought about
that I thought about that because
throughout the ages all of us ages in
history that changed the world that
change transformed humanity and left
great messages none of them did it by
going out there into the world to find
answers they all did it by going within
to find the truth what truth you say
well the truth that sets you free the
that is really at the bottom of all
philosophy beauty science everything and
I am to me is very simple it’s as simple
as ABC awareness begins change awareness
of what awareness of your prejudices
awareness of your limiting beliefs
awareness of your in tolerances
awareness of what you think is possible
and not all of these things that we
believe all of these limiting beliefs we
possess we got through our conditioning
we didn’t come here with them they were
given to us we learned them I understand
that but see but they’re held in place
by our lack of self reflection self
reflection is the only way and the only
path toward growth and possibility
that’s how we do it awareness begins
change all of the great people in
history did it they used imagination
Einstein used it to create his thought
experiments and tell you think about
physics Sabine Martin Luther King talked
about having a dream that’s an
imagination Jesus talked about you know
ask and you shall receive seek you shall
find all of those things happen in your
imagination Gandhi imagine what he could
do for his country mother Teresa imagine
what it looks like
a world that would look like you know
with more compassion one person at a
time
Buddha wanted to understand about human
suffering why must we suffer and after
really really looking at it he found
that well pain is necessary but
suffering is optional it’s our choice
itself how we choose to see the things
and the circumstances that we’re in how
we’re choosing to see what’s out there
how are you choosing to see your life
how are you choosing to see the world
that really will affect you and
everybody else but do you think I only
speak of these people who are amazing
now I I don’t I’m talking about you and
I’m talking about me you have to go into
your own story and find the evidence
that they found the evidence that
imagination is unlimited but that is the
only thing that changes the world said
amazing power if you could imagine it
you can do it you can be it find those
stories I met a young man a couple of
years ago and he told me how the day he
got out of prison they put him in a bus
and that bus took him to our downtown
Dallas and we got there and he was all
wrinkled and no money didn’t smell good
didn’t look very good and he did to call
his mother he said my mom didn’t know I
was free I needed to tell her to come
get me and he got out of the bus and he
could see across the street there was a
community college and a student center
and he and he looked in there he saw
young people just like him going in and
out of the place and he thought well
maybe I can go in there and they’ll let
me use the phone but then he thought no
I look you know like they’ll probably
call the cops on me or something like
that so he thought about it for a while
until he mustered the power to just walk
in there and say can I use your phone
and the young woman and the front desk
said well I can’t let you use my phone
here but I know that if you go into that
office there’s a phone there that you
can use that woman knew what she was
doing because inside of that office
there was a faculty advisor that
everybody loved and when he walked into
that office and the fact that the
advisor stood up and said hey the young
man wasn’t sure but he invited him in
and he sat down and they talked for a
while and tell me about it so well I
just got out of prison and I need to
talk to my mother and so we’re tell me
more what’s going on and they shared
stories for a while they they became a
community they talked to each other
that’s what we’re supposed to do now
this faculty adviser finally let the man
the young man use the phone but not
before he talked to him about getting
his education thinking about it you
belong here just like everybody else you
may not look like them right now but you
are just as worthy as anybody else to do
this this young man came
from a different country he had no
reason to believe he could do this his
family was not educated years later when
I met him he told me you know what that
man did for me that day was he helped me
imagine myself an educated man I had
never considered that he put it in my
mind and I went to town with that it was
a song stuck in my head I couldn’t stop
it man maybe I can do this maybe I can
and then this faculty adviser also said
if you want to do it you can start right
here I’ll help you when I met him he was
a PhD he hadn’t just gone back to get
his technical degree he went on to get
his bachelor’s degree and then his
master’s degree and his PhD and he said
I got so good at imagining I started
selling it to my family in fact my
mother next year is graduating with her
master’s degree that’s how you change
the world that’s the important part
every time there’s two humans coming
together in any human interaction there
is something left behind
always are you leaving something behind
on purpose or are you just leaving
something behind pay attention do it on
purpose
imagine for yourself imagine for the
world and imagine for other people the
best that you can on purpose
find the magic in your life you will see
it I thought about it it’s like you know
imagination I can really imagine and
then I remember my dad saying you’re the
genie and I got it I’m like okay I am
the genie
so imagination simply means I am the
genie in creation I’m the one doing it
I’m the one rubbing the lamp I’m the one
thinking can I do it or not are you
rubbing your left with possibility and
the joy and happy
and we can get this done are you rubbing
your lamp with fear and you know you’re
not sure prejudice because your genie
doesn’t care it does not he doesn’t care
what you’re wishing for it’s gonna give
it to you whatever that is
so imagine on purpose and find evidence
in your own life I do every day I have
it all the time you know when I started
doing stand-up comedy in 1993 by 1995 I
I had a decision to make it’s a very
important decision you know I was either
gonna go on the road or how to quit
comedy because you don’t get good as a
comedian if you don’t go on the road
right so the problem was a young family
a couple of children very young they
didn’t want to see mom go you know for
two weeks at a time sometimes and I was
also risking my own life I was gonna go
back in 95
yeah there’s no internet there is no
cell phone I had a pager in a soccer
quarters and I had to find a payphone
every once in a while if I wanted to
call home but I decided to do it and I
remember the first time I left I
remember back him down my driveway
waiting till my children were in bed
dieback him down my driveway I looked in
the rearview mirror and I adjusted it
and in that moment for some reason I
wasn’t backing down my driveway to leave
I saw myself actually getting home I was
looking in the rearview mirror as I was
arriving home safely and that I did that
every time and every time it worked and
I was safe and and I’ve done that for so
many other things in my life you know
whenever you’re gonna do something new I
went to the end I can do this two years
so three years ago they I had a
mammogram and they told me that they
found a mass now I don’t know what the
problem is with mammograms you know 20
years ago the technology was still the
same women are still being you know men
don’t have to put up with this seriously
if you guys have to do something like a
mammogram you would not go you would
tell the doctor you know what doc I’ve
had a good life I rather die
but I’m sitting there and you know
they’re about to tell me about my biopsy
and I’m sitting in this room and you
know the doctor walks in very somber and
the nurse and they say well you know
you’ve claimed we found a mass and it’s
cancerous we would have to do treatment
and in that moment for some reason I’m
looking in the rearview mirror and I’m
seeing myself and another room being
told by another doctor that I was going
to be okay and cancer-free for some
reason I don’t know they thought I was
going to cry but I said okay well what
do we have to do next two years ago I
found myself in among caught in an
ecologist office waiting for him to come
in as a follow-up treatment I’m
cancer-free and happy right and I’m
looking around the room and I remember
my gosh I remember that moment where I
looked in the rearview mirror so I saw
this moment I was here safe and
cancer-free thank you Shayla May for
imagining that and I’m looking around
the room and I saw this thing you’ve
seen these right in a doctor’s office
cross-section of a brain you know all of
this stuff all the weird stuff in there
you see you saw that you saw a brain but
I didn’t I saw my genie it just popped
right up
you know I saw it right there laying on
the center of my being right there I see
the halo I see the hair the puffy sleeve
I was to nichkhun and the cloak all
around my brain I don’t know if you see
it but that’s what I saw and I started
crying I saw my genie it was with me the
whole time with my faith I started
crying I’m taking a picture of the thing
the doctor walks in and he goes it’s
okay they’re cancer-free what’s wrong my
God my genies like no I said scary I’ll
he thought I was going into mental
health problems but the point is that
you have the TV inside of you you’re the
one using your imagination to create the
world you want to create a better world
out there then begin by creating a
better world in here use your
imagination on purpose thank you very much
that I was gonna be able to do this TEDx
tamo I was so excited I said wow this is
global this is big TEDx ideas worth
spreading the whole world is going to
know about it what am I going to talk
about what am I gonna tell people and
then they said hold on we do have a
theme I said okay cool what’s the theme
they said between is miliar ISM and I
said cool
what the heck is Mahler ISM and then I
googled it and luckily Google knew how
to spell it it’s yeah I didn’t know
metaphysical thinking that progress is a
real concept leading to an improvement
of the world oh-kay sounds philosophical
so I went to one of my philosophy
colleagues and I asked him I played it
off like I knew what I was talking about
right I said so dr. so-and-so what’s
your take on miliar ISM and he said
never heard of it
great so I did what I do every time I
left to my own devices you know I become
an engineer and I broke things down all
right metaphysical thinking metaphysical
is a highly abstract or abstruse thing
difficult to comprehend and pronounced
seriously progress onward or forward
movement toward a destination what’s
your progress
who doesn’t want progress for the world
right everybody wants the world to be
better I mean there’s some people who
don’t want the world to be better they
want to destroy but those people are
wacky and they’re not important those
people just need help but if you walk
into a classroom a first-grade classroom
and you say how many of you want to
change the world they’re all gonna go
move
I don’t even know what that means
seriously I mean who doesn’t want to
change the world the worldís that’s what
we are here the world that I I’m walking
around thinking the world what’s the
world actually what is the world and
Siri answered because she’s always
listening she’s like a nosy neighbor she
said the earth the world is the earth
together with all of its countries
peoples and natural features and I
thought
yikes I have to talk to you about
improving all of that how the heck am I
gonna do that right or maybe I’ll think
about the world there is natural
features of the automated countries but
you’ll talk about how to prevent floods
or tsunamis or earthquakes and I know I
can’t do that I’m not that smart they’re
smarter people doing that I’ll work on
people I know that’s what I’ll do I’ll
make people better I know I’ll invent an
app that will shock a person every time
right and they’ll be nicer because the
shots will get worse with every asinine
thing they do it’ll be great you don’t
want to meet somebody’s being rude to
you’re talking to somebody and they
start looking at their phone you just
somebody cuts you off in traffic oh
that’s a big or they take your parking
spot forget about it all right I think
in two weeks everybody’s gonna look just
like that but then I had a thought and I
thought well I’m gonna have to write the
algorithm for this app which means I’m
gonna have to decide what is shockworthy
and what is not what is right and what
is wrong what is rude and what it’s not
rude what’s the right thing to think
what’s the right thing to do I don’t
know about that but isn’t that what’s
going on right now in the world people
telling me all the time everywhere what
to think what to do how to do it were to
March we’re not to March what to take
down what to put up I don’t I don’t want
that that’s what I realized exactly what
I want to tell you about Miller ISM it’s
because by focusing out there all the
time in making and thinking and making
the world better we are not spending
enough time thinking and focusing on the
world that needs to get better which is
the one in here you know
I grew up in Puerto Rico and in Puerto
Rico when I was a child nobody asked me
ever if I wanted to make the world a
better place nobody the question itself
implies that the world is not good and
my world was perfect are you kidding me
out I was a cutie-pie
yeah look at me every day I had an
attitude when I was a little very very
young but then you know as a young woman
I graduated kindergarten and I became a
lady but my world was perfect
I had no questions and no problems with
the world my family was amazing we spent
all this time together
right there on the
upper left you see my father and two
uncles I don’t know what we were fishing
for I don’t know that crawfish or its
even edible but we were out there and
you know it was great my dad worked for
IBM the uncle andhe on your left there
is a doctor and the one that looks very
confused and attorney of course and and
you see me there in the middle between
my dad and my my uncle I was always in
the middle I was always in there I
wanted to share with my dad I wanted to
take all the risks I wanted to do all of
the things that were really out there it
was fun that was the kind of world I
grew up in bottom rotor you see that’s
how I spent all my summers that’s in a
little island of the east coast of
Puerto Rico for Culebra it’s an absolute
paradise I mean we didn’t even know we
were in paradise but we were there and
what I remember about that photo is that
we posed for that we actually always
showered that day and wore our best see
we had no shoes 30 wore shoes ever it
was fantastic I mean we didn’t have
power but we did have running water the
same kind of running water SIG’s regular
talking talks about you know the one you
got to run and get we had that so we all
showered for that and I remember that
photo and then on the upper right-hand
side there you see my family my
immediate family my dad my mom my
sisters my brother that’s the day that
we left Porto Rico to move to Houston
Texas we wanted to blend in so you know
we just wore what we knew we saw it in
the movies we’ve seen movies about Texas
we’ve gone in the frontier we gotta wear
this stuff you know I’m talking about we
got some funny looks at the airport but
well we got the Houston we kind of
looked like the people my parents were
great my mother my mother taught me
about beauty and humor she was a
beautiful woman that you know cared
about being beautiful but also cared
about being fun and not taking her surf
cell theory seriously
she took duty very seriously she taught
me you have to go to school you have to
get an education you have to behave in a
certain way and
these things she did do that but when it
came to just taking herself seriously
not really and as she got older as you
can see she really let go of that that’s
her with a french fry in her nose I mean
do you have a picture of your mother
with a french fry in her nose I think
you need to ask her to do that and see
what she says my dad my dad was amazing
my dad was all about doing crazy stuff
taking a risk stepping outside of the
box do not do what everybody else does
he loved airplanes he loved fixing
things I think that’s why I went into
aerospace engineering my dad was my dad
that’s him right there
that’s a dc-3 1925 he is on the
propeller of that dc-3 that is at East
LA get on the airport in Puerto Rico
that’s an airport my dad is on the
propeller of a dc-3 and I’m thinking who
the heck took that picture you know who
his father his father said you climb up
there you get up there I’ll take a
picture of you you’ll come right back
down and that’s how my dad grew up and
that’s what he did for us too he was
always so happy to do something new
always caring about the people around
them and making sure that he brought his
best to everything he always told me he
didn’t tell me what I needed to do never
my dad never said this is what you have
to do but my dad did say you can do and
be anything you can imagine he said
you’re the genie hmm and I thought about
that I thought about that because
throughout the ages all of us ages in
history that changed the world that
change transformed humanity and left
great messages none of them did it by
going out there into the world to find
answers they all did it by going within
to find the truth what truth you say
well the truth that sets you free the
that is really at the bottom of all
philosophy beauty science everything and
I am to me is very simple it’s as simple
as ABC awareness begins change awareness
of what awareness of your prejudices
awareness of your limiting beliefs
awareness of your in tolerances
awareness of what you think is possible
and not all of these things that we
believe all of these limiting beliefs we
possess we got through our conditioning
we didn’t come here with them they were
given to us we learned them I understand
that but see but they’re held in place
by our lack of self reflection self
reflection is the only way and the only
path toward growth and possibility
that’s how we do it awareness begins
change all of the great people in
history did it they used imagination
Einstein used it to create his thought
experiments and tell you think about
physics Sabine Martin Luther King talked
about having a dream that’s an
imagination Jesus talked about you know
ask and you shall receive seek you shall
find all of those things happen in your
imagination Gandhi imagine what he could
do for his country mother Teresa imagine
what it looks like
a world that would look like you know
with more compassion one person at a
time
Buddha wanted to understand about human
suffering why must we suffer and after
really really looking at it he found
that well pain is necessary but
suffering is optional it’s our choice
itself how we choose to see the things
and the circumstances that we’re in how
we’re choosing to see what’s out there
how are you choosing to see your life
how are you choosing to see the world
that really will affect you and
everybody else but do you think I only
speak of these people who are amazing
now I I don’t I’m talking about you and
I’m talking about me you have to go into
your own story and find the evidence
that they found the evidence that
imagination is unlimited but that is the
only thing that changes the world said
amazing power if you could imagine it
you can do it you can be it find those
stories I met a young man a couple of
years ago and he told me how the day he
got out of prison they put him in a bus
and that bus took him to our downtown
Dallas and we got there and he was all
wrinkled and no money didn’t smell good
didn’t look very good and he did to call
his mother he said my mom didn’t know I
was free I needed to tell her to come
get me and he got out of the bus and he
could see across the street there was a
community college and a student center
and he and he looked in there he saw
young people just like him going in and
out of the place and he thought well
maybe I can go in there and they’ll let
me use the phone but then he thought no
I look you know like they’ll probably
call the cops on me or something like
that so he thought about it for a while
until he mustered the power to just walk
in there and say can I use your phone
and the young woman and the front desk
said well I can’t let you use my phone
here but I know that if you go into that
office there’s a phone there that you
can use that woman knew what she was
doing because inside of that office
there was a faculty advisor that
everybody loved and when he walked into
that office and the fact that the
advisor stood up and said hey the young
man wasn’t sure but he invited him in
and he sat down and they talked for a
while and tell me about it so well I
just got out of prison and I need to
talk to my mother and so we’re tell me
more what’s going on and they shared
stories for a while they they became a
community they talked to each other
that’s what we’re supposed to do now
this faculty adviser finally let the man
the young man use the phone but not
before he talked to him about getting
his education thinking about it you
belong here just like everybody else you
may not look like them right now but you
are just as worthy as anybody else to do
this this young man came
from a different country he had no
reason to believe he could do this his
family was not educated years later when
I met him he told me you know what that
man did for me that day was he helped me
imagine myself an educated man I had
never considered that he put it in my
mind and I went to town with that it was
a song stuck in my head I couldn’t stop
it man maybe I can do this maybe I can
and then this faculty adviser also said
if you want to do it you can start right
here I’ll help you when I met him he was
a PhD he hadn’t just gone back to get
his technical degree he went on to get
his bachelor’s degree and then his
master’s degree and his PhD and he said
I got so good at imagining I started
selling it to my family in fact my
mother next year is graduating with her
master’s degree that’s how you change
the world that’s the important part
every time there’s two humans coming
together in any human interaction there
is something left behind
always are you leaving something behind
on purpose or are you just leaving
something behind pay attention do it on
purpose
imagine for yourself imagine for the
world and imagine for other people the
best that you can on purpose
find the magic in your life you will see
it I thought about it it’s like you know
imagination I can really imagine and
then I remember my dad saying you’re the
genie and I got it I’m like okay I am
the genie
so imagination simply means I am the
genie in creation I’m the one doing it
I’m the one rubbing the lamp I’m the one
thinking can I do it or not are you
rubbing your left with possibility and
the joy and happy
and we can get this done are you rubbing
your lamp with fear and you know you’re
not sure prejudice because your genie
doesn’t care it does not he doesn’t care
what you’re wishing for it’s gonna give
it to you whatever that is
so imagine on purpose and find evidence
in your own life I do every day I have
it all the time you know when I started
doing stand-up comedy in 1993 by 1995 I
I had a decision to make it’s a very
important decision you know I was either
gonna go on the road or how to quit
comedy because you don’t get good as a
comedian if you don’t go on the road
right so the problem was a young family
a couple of children very young they
didn’t want to see mom go you know for
two weeks at a time sometimes and I was
also risking my own life I was gonna go
back in 95
yeah there’s no internet there is no
cell phone I had a pager in a soccer
quarters and I had to find a payphone
every once in a while if I wanted to
call home but I decided to do it and I
remember the first time I left I
remember back him down my driveway
waiting till my children were in bed
dieback him down my driveway I looked in
the rearview mirror and I adjusted it
and in that moment for some reason I
wasn’t backing down my driveway to leave
I saw myself actually getting home I was
looking in the rearview mirror as I was
arriving home safely and that I did that
every time and every time it worked and
I was safe and and I’ve done that for so
many other things in my life you know
whenever you’re gonna do something new I
went to the end I can do this two years
so three years ago they I had a
mammogram and they told me that they
found a mass now I don’t know what the
problem is with mammograms you know 20
years ago the technology was still the
same women are still being you know men
don’t have to put up with this seriously
if you guys have to do something like a
mammogram you would not go you would
tell the doctor you know what doc I’ve
had a good life I rather die
but I’m sitting there and you know
they’re about to tell me about my biopsy
and I’m sitting in this room and you
know the doctor walks in very somber and
the nurse and they say well you know
you’ve claimed we found a mass and it’s
cancerous we would have to do treatment
and in that moment for some reason I’m
looking in the rearview mirror and I’m
seeing myself and another room being
told by another doctor that I was going
to be okay and cancer-free for some
reason I don’t know they thought I was
going to cry but I said okay well what
do we have to do next two years ago I
found myself in among caught in an
ecologist office waiting for him to come
in as a follow-up treatment I’m
cancer-free and happy right and I’m
looking around the room and I remember
my gosh I remember that moment where I
looked in the rearview mirror so I saw
this moment I was here safe and
cancer-free thank you Shayla May for
imagining that and I’m looking around
the room and I saw this thing you’ve
seen these right in a doctor’s office
cross-section of a brain you know all of
this stuff all the weird stuff in there
you see you saw that you saw a brain but
I didn’t I saw my genie it just popped
right up
you know I saw it right there laying on
the center of my being right there I see
the halo I see the hair the puffy sleeve
I was to nichkhun and the cloak all
around my brain I don’t know if you see
it but that’s what I saw and I started
crying I saw my genie it was with me the
whole time with my faith I started
crying I’m taking a picture of the thing
the doctor walks in and he goes it’s
okay they’re cancer-free what’s wrong my
God my genies like no I said scary I’ll
he thought I was going into mental
health problems but the point is that
you have the TV inside of you you’re the
one using your imagination to create the
world you want to create a better world
out there then begin by creating a
better world in here use your
imagination on purpose thank you very much
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