Amy Purdy TED Talk: Living Beyond Limits
It's one thing to inspire success after battling worldly pressures; it's another to inspire success after losing both your legs. And that's what Amy Purdy did magnificently during one of her TED Talks.
Amy Purdy lost both her legs below the knee, but today she has still managed to become a professional snowboarder. And on May 2011, she shared her experience in a TED talk to inspire people through her life's obstacles. The talk was presented to a local audience and held at an independent event, TEDxOrangeCoast.
Amy Purdy's TED talk spoke of her battle with bacterial meningitis and how after losing both her legs to the disease, still managed to become a professional snowboarder. In the talk, Amy Purdy tells the story of her struggle with depression after losing her legs. She eventually accepted her new reality, however with many limitations. Purdy was unable to find prosthetics that would allow her to snowboard, and so she built one for herself.
The TED talk consists of the power of imagination. Amy Purdy seamlessly explains how our lives are not determined by what occurs to us, but by the choices we make. Amy Purdy's TED talk is aptly moving as the inspirational speaker spoke of maintaining imagination in order to break down borders, to move beyond circumstances, to create and constantly progress.
What makes the Amy Purdy TED talk extraordinary? It's not that spent her high school years as a passionate artist and snowboarder, then traumatically losing both her legs at age 19, it's that she has persevered, taking unbelievable challenges and rising above them, and truly living beyond limits.
Today, Amy Purdy is an athlete, a world champion female adaptive snowboarder. In 2005, Amy co-founded Adaptive Action Sports, an organization which introduces people with physical challenges to action sports.
The Amy Purdy TED talk provides a positive impact on the world and a true testament to the human spirit that anybody can control life and live beyond limits.
Check out the the Amy Purdy TED talk below and be inspired.
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