Stories and their power on self-concept and perception

 As children, we were all highly impressionable. Our world and our perspective mirrored what was around us, whether that be the influence of our families, the influence of our friends, the influence of school, or the influence of media through books and screens. In this TedTalk, the speaker shares our children's books influenced her as a young writer and beyond. Her self-concept was altered by the books she read as were the stories that she wrote