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TED:过一种沉浸的人生I have been spending a lot of time traveling around the world these days talking to groups of students and professionals. And everywhere I am finding that I hear similar themes. On the one hand,people say The time for change is now. They want to be part of it. They talk about wanting lives of purpose and greater meaning. But on the other hand,I hear people talking about fear, a sense of risk aversion. They say,I really want to follow a life of purpose,but I do not know where to start. I so not want to disappoint my family or friends.I work in global poverty. And they say, I want to work in global poverty, but what will it mean about my career? Will I be marginalized? Will I not make enough money? Will I never get married or have children? And as a woman who did not get married until I was a lot older and I am glad I waited. And has no children. I look at these young people and I say,Your job is not to be perfect. Your job is only to be human. And nothing important happens in life without a cost. These conversation really reflect what was happening at the national and international level. Our leaders and ourselves went everything but we do not talk about the cost, we do not talk about the sacrifice. One of my favourite quotes from literature was written by Tillie Olsen,the great American writer from the South. In a short story calledOh,Yes. She talks about a white woman in the 1950s who has a daughter who be friends a little Africa American girl. And she looks at her child with a sense of pride,but she also wonders,what price will she pay?Better immersion than to live untouched. But the real question is,what is the cost of not daring? What the cost of not trying? I have been so privileged in my life to know extraordinary leaders who have chosen to live of immersion. One woman I knew who was a fellow at a program that ran at the Rockfeller Foundation was named Ingrid Wshinawatok. She was a leader of the Menominee trible,a Native American peoples. And when