Following Instinct: Amaryllis Fox at TEDxTeen
Amaryllis is the founder and CEO of mulu, an online tool-making global publishers' content shoppable for charity. Amaryllis has spent a great deal of time in the nonprofit world, deferring school to work in health clinics on the Thai-Burmese border, and freelanced for the BBC and local wire services in Thailand, Indonesia and East Timor.
Amaryllis later returned to Oxford University, earning her undergraduate degree in 2002. She then attended graduate school at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, focusing on international security and writing an algorithm adopted by the U.S. government for predicting instability in failed states. After graduating in 2003, she spent six years working in government service, both in the U.S. and overseas. Along the way, Amaryllis managed several investment funds, concentrating on alternative energies and electric vehicles. In 2009, she left government service to focus on combining profit and purpose to build socially sustainable businesses.
Amaryllis lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her family and their makerbot.
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Not sure why all the negative comments here, but I really liked the talk. Using it in a class I'm teaching on crafting memoirs. Thanks for the obvious hard work you do and the impact you're having on the world. We need more like you. :-)
If your Heart your Mind and your Gut are aligned that is instinct. If your heart is not committed don't do it. If your mind is telling you no, don't do it. If your gut don't feel right, don't do it. Shows how closed mind people are when they hate on someone for following instinct.
Amaryllis is awesome!
Ive seen her from Business of Drugs and love the way she narrates. sooo senseful
She's great. She had a wonderful opportunity to live a live full of opportunity and achievement and she made the most of it. Does she understand how Americans are also disadvantaged, how the disparity in America -- not everyone has money to spend buying ANYTHING on line -- has left sick old people living in their cars behind the big box stores. We fail to care for our own mentally ill, our own poor, our own aging. Easy to look the other way, the poor and suffering of the world are much more interesting and exotic than the poor at home.
@garyssimo
5 ай бұрын
Tobiwalker.....her husbans dad will be president soon and address your concerns! Im very exited!
Great description of "intuition"! Pretty damn amazing talk. Probably have to go buy her book that just got published.
@Nantana2211
4 жыл бұрын
I can definitely recommend it!
I read her book on a one shot, it was really fascinating
I enjoyed this talk, she should do more,
@USSoccerOfficial
3 ай бұрын
Agreed, maybe presidential campaign manager??
The mere fact that one chooses to...and does... follow their instincts, is the main factor behind feeling fulfilled in life, not necessarily being able to credit that instinct for necessarily making the right decision.
Dynamic perceptions.
Wow impressive credentials
Haha the leather is so loud. I’m buying her book.
the next Bond girl!
@bman342a
4 жыл бұрын
Or maybe the next Bond.
Im confused amarayllis...
Is it here real name ?
@garyssimo
5 ай бұрын
Yes. now shes a Kennedy managing our next presidents campaign. KENNEDY 2024
Patterns that make you uniquely qualified to take the leap. This could be read so many ways, many of which are really bad. Especially if one is deluded.
We insist that these "subconscious" ideas/etc are in our brains. Is that because the brain is closest to our mouths? Maybe the information was stored elsewhere in her body. Her heart maybe?
@writerconsidered
6 жыл бұрын
Said no neuroscientist ever.
The subconcious stuff is probably mostly the thing called IMPLICIT MEMORY.
I don't know if following your istinct is always a good thing...I mean, if you were born to be a serial killer? Instinct should be compensated by rationality or by following the culture of the society you live in
@tamy9429
3 жыл бұрын
She doesn't seem to mean what you said..., No offense.
@staceysmom8031
3 жыл бұрын
Leo. Youre right. Predisposition is possible. Just fight the bad :;)
American ripper show co investigator.
boots.
I like her alot, 'only 32 dollars in my pocket'.. not, 'daddy fill up my Amex card',
I love you, my beautiful wife.
She is a cutie ;)
in my case I call it, "low impulse control".
Bet she couldn't say first things first Amaryllis when taking the decision to stay in Thailand
How would her life have been if she was born poor, I wonder...
@t88taco88
8 жыл бұрын
Do you want your children to be born poor? I wonder..
@SaiGirl
8 жыл бұрын
"The rich are different than you or me." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
@routeclarksdale
7 жыл бұрын
with or without money , this lady would succeed ! It's not the money who makes the person ! what about you?
@Zypher77777
4 жыл бұрын
@@routeclarksdale you should really read her new book and ask yourself how she afforded so many trips across the globe with her brother and student-peers. It definitely wasn't her own money that afforded her so many foreign trips abroad in her youth.
@catherinedicus5792
3 жыл бұрын
?...You can do this without being rich. Even a dollar to your name, sometimes it's spontaneous provision (for me it was God)
She sounds like a fiction writer that believed her own story.
Hey girl, talk about the man who you needed to annul the marriage to. What about that aspect of your service?
A bold character, lol. I would like to know how you two got out of Burma after being arrested? Did they just hold you until your Business Visa was to run out and give you back your passports? Very interesting story.
Bad Actor!
@writerconsidered
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I couldn't put into words what I didn't like about her. She seems to have a glaring fakeness that makes me uneasy and distrustful of her. I wonder what that says about my instinct?
@garyssimo
5 ай бұрын
Wow.....I got none of that from her. I would trust her with my life. glaring fakeness? hmmmmm
@garyssimo
5 ай бұрын
Shes been a CIA spy in counter terrorism and probably has saved thousands of us from bad actors.
She went undercover as a plastic surgeon with a face like that