What's the Best Thing About Vulnerabilities in Your Writing?

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"I think that it's no surprise that so many novels are autobiographical and so many films are autobiographical," she said. "When you really feel like, oh, this is this person's pain and they are generous enough to expose their pain because in the exposure of that pain, you can see yourself." She added: "In doing that, you realize that you're not so alone also"

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