Writing Your Life – Choosing Your Narrative | Tim Taylor | TEDxEdUHK

Dr.Timothy gives us perspectives on how we can see our lives as a story that we are responsible for and have the capacity to write it by becoming the authors of our own lives. Language allows us to take our raw life experiences and rewrite them as a coherent narrative, which then becomes the story of our life. As an English teacher, Tim has been teaching writing for almost 30 years, including at the primary, secondary and university levels. He has lived and worked in the United States, Papua New Guinea, Israel, China and – for 18 years now – in Hong Kong. If he weren’t an English teacher, Tim would be probably be an anthropologist, as he finds people, culture and history so endlessly fascinating. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language Education and the University Field Experience Coordinator at the Education University of HK. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx