What Is the Most Harshly Humiliating Thing That Happened to a Human Being?

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I was thinking about it the other day, actually, just recently. It's become this sort of like trend to do something horrifically embarrassing and then tweet it immediately. I think that luckily people have stopped doing that so regularly. The things that I feel the deepest, most profound connection to are almost always when someone has taken something that I'm struggling with or struggling to articulate or to deal with and they've found meaning in it," he says.

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