"I am terrified all the time. I take medication to deal with my anxiety and depression," she says. "For me, the greatest things in my life have always been on the other side of fear and terror" Her dad told her to go to law school so many times that she decided to join the Peace Corps instead.
Television writer Cord Jefferson has written for the kind of shows that crack hearts open. From The Good Place to Watchmen, Station Eleven to Master of None, Cord has spent his career wrangling human emotions in the writers’ room – but also in his own life. In this episode, Cord speaks about the connection between his personal life and his creative work, how he thinks about vulnerability in making art and why he thanked his therapist in his acceptance speech for his first Emmy. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts