"I think that everybody should go to therapy," she says. "Focus on listening to other people and not when you're in conversations with people." Try new things all the time, constantly be doing something new,. She adds: "It had been so long since I was like, bad at something or didn't understand what I was frightened of"
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