Cutting Through Fear | Dan Meyer | TEDx Maastricht

Did you ever want to face your fears, become a superhero and do the impossible?

As humans, we're hard-wired to fear things that scare us – to fight, freeze or flee in the face of danger. But can we conquer our fears and even use them to do the impossible?

Dan Meyer believes no matter how extreme our fears or how wild our dreams, we can each overcome our fears, become superheroes and do the impossible to change the world.

In this engaging talk, Meyer takes the audience on his journey from extreme fears to extreme feats, wimp to world record holder, loser to Ig Nobel Prize winner and quitter to finalist on America's Got Talent.

Director of a humanitarian aid agency serving orphans in Kazakhstan, Meyer describes how he overcame a childhood of extreme fears, social anxiety disorder and bullying to perform superhuman feats, win the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard, become a finalist on America's Got Talent, 40x world record holder and world's leading expert in one of the world's oldest and most dangerous arts - sword swallowing - and passionate about inspiring people to do the impossible in THEIR lives.

In this jaw-dropping talk, Meyer reveals the science behind the ancient art of sword swallowing, and describes his quest to conquer fear, failure and the boundaries of the human body to perform superhuman feats, do the impossible and change the world. In a surprise ending, Meyer shares secrets of doing the impossible to inspire YOU to cut through fear to do the impossible in YOUR life.

Dan Meyer @DanMeyerswords
http://cuttingedgeinnertainment.com

TEDxMaastricht
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