He showed me out.

This led me to blood.

And that led me to this project.

led me to sign up for aeronautical engineering.

Well the act of drawing airplanes led me to, when I had the opportunity to choose a course in school, led me to sign up for aeronautical engineering.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

My desperation made me an innovator.

It has led me to Jafar and the amulets.

It's taken me to see life in the Islamic Republic.

It's taken me to the heart of the revolution in Tahrir Square.

My uncles, my father s younger brothers, led me by the hand.

It's taken me to hunt for pirates off the coast of Somalia.

This led me, as a behavioral economist, to an intriguing hypothesis.

And so this basically led me to a subject called cymatics.

So that's what led me to Alzheimer's.

led me to, when I had the opportunity to choose a course in school,

But the sword led me to her.

led me to a new form, which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

And so this basically led me to a subject called cymatics.

And it kind of led me to astrobiology, which is the study of possible life in the universe.

And one thing led to another, and I ended up having a desk in ?What If! in New York, when I started Independent Diplomat.

And, finally, Jay dragged me to my hometown, Toronto, Canada.

And that's what ultimately led me to speaking to you here at TED about story.

And that feeling also led me to a pilgrimage of sorts, to go literally to the ends of the earth to see telescopes, detectors, instruments that people are building, or have built, in order to probe the cosmos in greater and greater detail.

And he drove me out to the University of Pittsburgh where I filled out a college application and got in on probation.

But also I intend to stick with the volunteering, which actually leads me to the biggest epiphany of them all.

And all the work I've done has led me to believe that individuality really is all it's cracked up to be.

I want you go to away with that and I'll leave it with this one quote, which has driven me to this point

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience and later to become a psychotherapist.

And one thing led to another, and I ended up having a desk in ?What If! in New York, when I started Independent Diplomat.

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later, to become a psychotherapist.

And it's the combination of these things that has led me to the hobby of sound visualization, and, on occasion, has led me to play with fire.

In the '90s, my interest and passion for transitional art forms led me to a new form, which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

And that kind of passion drove me into very serious play, a kind of play I could never do now because I'm too well educated.

This led to me writing The Vagina Monologues, which led to me obsessively and incessantly talking about vaginas everywhere I could.

So I can give you a little bit of first background just on me and what moved me as a really going back as far as a teenager and then an adult, to actually try and build this kind of thing.

And it led me to astrobiology, the study of possible life in the universe.

lead me to get a wonderful job with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which works to save wildlife and wild places all over the world.

And that's led me to doing some work with the physical world, not with the Internet, and only using the Internet at the very last moment, as a presentation medium.

And that kind of passion drove me into very serious play, a kind of play I could never do now because I'm too well educated.

And so if I were going to give you the ending of this story, it would go something like this And that's what ultimately led me to speaking to you here at TED about story.

And that got me into a discussion with some other people, other scientists, about maybe some other subjects, and one of the guys I talked to, who was a neuroscientist, said,

This experience and this training lead me to get a wonderful job with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which works to save wildlife and wild places all over the world.

And that feeling also led me to a pilgrimage of sorts, to go literally to the ends of the earth to see telescopes, detectors, instruments that people are building, or have built, in order to probe the cosmos in greater and greater detail.