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"Change is a word that sounds great in an election campaign, but if you ask to change people resist, they dictate. That's just human nature, "says Aimee Mullins. She should know. In her career, the 33-year-old Mullins quite gone through some changes. She worked as a data analyst jack o lantern at the Pentagon, then became an athlete who broke world records when a model appeared on the covers of fashion magazines and recently jack o lantern she's an actress who tries it in Hollywood.
Meanwhile, Mullins is emerging as a popular speaker at conferences. Sea inspires with her story about dealing with challenges. Also on that she knows a thing or two: Mullins jack o lantern was born without bones in her calves. Her legs were amputated when little jack o lantern Aimee was a year old to prevent them from a wheelchair should use forever. Mullins likes to say that adversity is nothing but change which we have not changed us. "For many people, adversity a disaster, a signal that they have to overcome something," she says. "I give it to see it as an opportunity jack o lantern to use it so you can discover, you can develop new skills and to create something jack o lantern new. Talent prefer '
Nowadays Mullins contributes to the debate about our changing conception of disability. When they recently the word 'disabled' looked up in the dictionary, she was amazed that she found the synonyms: jack o lantern helpless, useless, destroyed, maimed ... "That was really shocking! ' Mullins remembers him. She is convinced jack o lantern that with the current technological advances prosthesis no longer needs to be a lost leg. Synonymous "On the contrary. It can be anything you want, "says Mullins, who believes that even so-called superpowers are within reach.
When people respond to her prostheses or those of others, Mullins, "she notes assume a lot about the quality of life of such a person. We prove a great service to others as we would assume. "Not much How different are the reactions of teenagers, she says. "They do not even see my legs as abnormal. They recognize them from their video games. They see the possibilities. "
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"Change is a word that sounds great in an election campaign, but if you ask to change people resist, they dictate. That's just human nature, "says Aimee Mullins. She should know. In her career, the 33-year-old Mullins quite gone through some changes. She worked as a data analyst jack o lantern at the Pentagon, then became an athlete who broke world records when a model appeared on the covers of fashion magazines and recently jack o lantern she's an actress who tries it in Hollywood.
Meanwhile, Mullins is emerging as a popular speaker at conferences. Sea inspires with her story about dealing with challenges. Also on that she knows a thing or two: Mullins jack o lantern was born without bones in her calves. Her legs were amputated when little jack o lantern Aimee was a year old to prevent them from a wheelchair should use forever. Mullins likes to say that adversity is nothing but change which we have not changed us. "For many people, adversity a disaster, a signal that they have to overcome something," she says. "I give it to see it as an opportunity jack o lantern to use it so you can discover, you can develop new skills and to create something jack o lantern new. Talent prefer '
Nowadays Mullins contributes to the debate about our changing conception of disability. When they recently the word 'disabled' looked up in the dictionary, she was amazed that she found the synonyms: jack o lantern helpless, useless, destroyed, maimed ... "That was really shocking! ' Mullins remembers him. She is convinced jack o lantern that with the current technological advances prosthesis no longer needs to be a lost leg. Synonymous "On the contrary. It can be anything you want, "says Mullins, who believes that even so-called superpowers are within reach.
When people respond to her prostheses or those of others, Mullins, "she notes assume a lot about the quality of life of such a person. We prove a great service to others as we would assume. "Not much How different are the reactions of teenagers, she says. "They do not even see my legs as abnormal. They recognize them from their video games. They see the possibilities. "
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October 13, 2014 With summer coming to an end, and back to school season fast approaching, ... Read more
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