Ted Talk 7

Diana Nyad did the talk. It was called Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish.  The talk was about how she had aspired to swim from Florida to Cuba and she trained and trained and when it finally came to the swim, she was stung by box jellyfish 15hours into the swim.  She kept swimming through the first stings but about 40 hours into the swim she got stung again.  This time she had to stop and get help.  The jellyfish wrap their tentacles around her and send venom into her central nervous system, then you get extremely hot, and then you start getting paralysis starting from your back.  She didn't end up making it but her point was that life has many disappointments but we can't let them get us down or make us give up on our dreams.  She said that one day, she will swim from Florida to Cuba one day!  My impression of Diana was she was a very determinated women.  After all that pain she had went through being stung by the ocean's most venomous creature, and she still wants to complete her swim.  I believe she will and she has high and realistic aspirations!