Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)

by Nnedi Okorafor

What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were “normal” or unbroken. In much of science fiction, when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks. This is a philosophy that positions our toughest experiences not as barriers, but as doorways, and may be the key to us becoming our truest selves.

Because in order to really live life, you must live life. And that is rarely achieved without cracks along the way.

There is often a sentiment that we must remain new, unscathed, unscarred, but in order to do this, you must never leave home, never experience, never risk or be harmed, and thus never grow.