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  Dean Furness with our life   This TED talk, Dean Furness shared the story of the accident that left him in a wheelchair, and what that experience taught him about "personal averages" and the importance of not letting other people impact how we think about ourselves. “Everything I learned and knew about my height, my strength and mobility was washed away,” he says. "My whole personal normalcy has been restored. Now you're sure that in those days I was measured more than ever by doctors and nurses, certainly, but perhaps in my heart. I thought I could go on with what I could do for a while. I'm going to be able to. I am very disappointed. " As Furness continued his rehab, he explains that he would have good days and bad days. "What I found out is that good and bad didn't have a lot of meaning unless I had the context of knowing what my average was. It was really to me to decide if something was bad or good, based on where I was at that point in time...