What's the Role of Failure?

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Emmy Award winner Cored Jefferson talks about vulnerability, creativity and mental health. "The failure's far outnumber the successes in this industry," he says of his own work. It can get pretty dispiriting to have so many people in paid positions tell you that they disagree with what you're doing, writes Jefferson."It's up to art is in the eye of the beholder."

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