One of the things I should probably tell you is, I worked for the Discovery Channel early in my career, and that sort of warped my framework.

I know I spent a lot of my career in artificial intelligence, trying to build machines that could do some of this thinking for us, that could give us answers.

In my profession, you feel it every once in a while, especially with older, more veteran colleagues, but it s gradually lessening.

And so I'm going to try to talk to you over the next few minutes about my career in terms of how I'm able to actually try to study music and really try to grapple with all these questions of how the brain is able to be creative.

They become so only as they are synthesized, elaborated and nurtured by advertising and salesmanship, and these, in turn, have become among our most important and talented professions.

And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career, I can now see key things that happened in my youth that really sort of opened my eyes to certain things about story.

Because the professionals, over here in these closed organizations they might be academics they might be programmers they might be doctors they might be journalists my former profession say, No, no you can't trust these people over here.

Now I have a saying that I feel very strongly about, because I am of a certain age where, when I started in my career, believe it or not, there were other women who criticized me Why aren't you in the carpool line?

Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world, when I eventually reveal the nature of my profession, they look at me as though I'm somewhere between a snake, a monkey and an iguana, and through all of this, I feel, strongly, that something is going wrong.

Now my publishing career began when I designed the cover for my eighth grade yearbook, and if you're wondering about the style of dress I put our mascot in, I was really into Bell Biv DeVoe and MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice at the time.