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Isaac Lidsky's Speech

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When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gave Isaac Lidsky blindness, he made a vision. In his speech, “What Reality Are You Creating for Yourself?”, Lidsky reveals his main idea that we all can control our reality and it is ourselves who contest that control. Lidsky’s main idea along with its corresponding major and minor points, the aid of my annotations, and two intriguing research topics came together to form my interpretation of his speech. Beginning with objectively summarizing Lidsky’s main idea and the supporting major and minor points that aid the overall understanding of his speech. Lidsky’s main idea is that we all can control our reality and it is ourselves who contest that control. Lidsky leads up to his …show more content…

The first research topic idea would be his studies at Harvard. There are may or may not have been courses that he took to help him realize that he is in control of his reality. Perhaps he learned in detail the extent of our brain's processing capabilities from a course taken at Harvard. In addition, he could have taken some psychology courses as well to understand better how emotions trigger a response in our minds altering what we see. Researching about his studies at Harvard could bring some insight on how he has developed his speech as well as his vision. The second research topic would be on how Lidsky lives with his eyes wide open. He has only summarized how to go about doing so, but if I knew more about how he came to this point in life, my understanding would increase exponentially. There could be numerous details not mentioned in the twelve-minute speech Lidsky gives. Details about critical points during the process of facing his greatest fears, doubts, and failures that it took for him to overcome. If Lidsky has a book on the journey he took to get to the point of living with his eyes wide open, I would admittedly read it to understand his concepts

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