I would love to kind of come back to poetry because I do feel like your work and your creative work ties everything together here so beautifully. What's an exercise that everyone who is listening can do to start a poem or to bring someone of that poetic observation, let's call it, into their daily life? Yeah. I'm a strong proponent of journaling. And what journaling actually allows us to do is to develop an intimate vocabulary of noticing. So journal like you're writing a novel of your own life, set the scene, go into every single detail.
ALOK doesn’t quite get the term multihyphenate – but how else to describe the internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker? From exploring belonging and the human condition, to fighting to degender the fashion and beauty industries, ALOK is tapping into their creativity constantly. Today, they share their approach to the creative process, how art has helped them accept the beauty and pain of life, why poetry and comedy need each other and so much more! For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts