thebrainscoop:A few months ago, Mental Floss magazine contacted me about an interview - all the emai
thebrainscoop:A few months ago, Mental Floss magazine contacted me about an interview - all the email said was “we are celebrating a group of young innovators who are changing the world – one of whom we’d like to be you.” I’m very fortunate to receive good press, and support from the media – folks like to include me in “Top X Millennials doing Cool Things with Cool Jobs”-type lists and I’m always delighted, and flattered.But this feels different. There was a moment when I opened the envelope, saw the cover, and was stunned. And I flipped it open, and on the page following the big letters WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD is this photo of me pushing up my glasses and holding a deer skull. That’s me sandwiched between trailblazers like Jasmine Twitty and Sandra Day O’Connor and Shannon Xinjing Lee and Lauryn Hill! And today, Facebook reminded me that five years ago I was posting photos of specimen preparation to my timeline, hoping to share this new fascination with decomposition with my friends and family (who were, sort of understandably, grossed out). It never occurred to me back then that my efforts would someday constitute as me having ‘changed the world.’Thinking about it more, it seems monumental to announce you’re out to change the world, but the reality is we all, in some part, do, whether or not what is done is a deliberate action. The difference is making that action deliberate, to not only passively react to things happening to you. Make things happen. The end game isn’t to be celebrated in a magazine article, although admittedly, it’s a nice bonus. There is no end game, no final goal. There is creativity, and action. This is your world to change. Emily Graslie is my superheroine. -- source link
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