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“I will not be the one who gives up.”
Before her fifth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad gathered her team on the shore in Havana and gave them the same speech she had given before every crossing: she wouldn’t be the one to quit.
Mother Nature might beat them.
But she would not.
In this preview from TEDMED Conversations, Diana reflects on the mindset behind that moment — and the question that still lingered for everyone watching.
Why return to the most difficult swim in the world… in her sixties?
▶ Watch the full TEDMED Conversation premiering Tuesday, March 10 at 12 PM ET.
In the full episode, Diana joins Kelly Thomas, PhD, Director of Scientific Content at TEDMED, to explore what resilience really requires — and what separates bravado from true readiness.
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