CORD Jefferson talks about how taking care of his mental health has fueled his creativity and enabled him to build a career as a critically acclaimed writer. "I am a different man than I was two years ago," he says in his acceptance speech for an Emmy Award. CORD: There's this like focus on making it so like it's not bad, but not enough on saying that it's actively good.
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