Nilofer Merchant is the author of The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World. Her theory of onlyness - the idea that each of us stands in a spot in the world only you stand in, it’s a function of your history and experiences and visions and hopes - is lighting up the world and making a way for a new way of thinking.

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Music by Megan Diana

Art by Vania Vananina and Maia Buzbee