Amy Purdy Living Beyond Limits Essay

In "Living beyond limits" TEDTalks, Amy Purdy, a survivor of meningococcal meningitis, encourages her audience of survivors, and people who need more confidence to come out of their limits. We live in a world where we restrict so much from ourselves while walking blindly not noticing what we're missing. Just forget your limits for a while because "in the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take" and that tends to be true. We focus so much on our flaws and what other people think that we forget how to live. Amy's tone towards her TEDTalk was inspirational, encouraging, and compassionate which helped inspire the audience's feelings towards her talk. Amy teaches us how to "draw inspiration from our life's obstacles "and come out of our comfort zone She
At the beginning of her presentation, she explains how her parents wheeled her out of the hospital, and she felt like a patchwork doll; she then shows a picture from the PowerPoint of her in a wheelchair with her family. Further in the presentation, she goes on to explain that she became the co-founder of adaptive action sports in 2005 Which is a nonprofit organization solely for introducing people with physical challenges to action sports; she shows a picture of a boy with a prosthetic leg riding down a ledge on a skateboard. Amy then goes on to tell us she even traveled to South Africa, where she put shoes on many children's feet, that way they had the chance to go to school. Amy talks about how she couldn't find a pair of good feet to snowboard with so she decided to make her own. She shows us the pair of feet she made and how realistic they look. The PowerPoint in Amy’s presentation give’s the audience a real-life experience with her story. With the pictures the audience gets to connect words with pictures. Thus, her visuals play a great deal in her presentations and help to make out her