TEDxUC Irvine

Kintsugi is a Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Instead of hiding the cracks, you fill them and what was broken becomes more beautiful because of it. Kintsugi is about confronting reality, accepting it, recalibrating, and transforming. It’s about friendships that devolve into lessons. Systems that crumble to make room for something better. Life asking you to start over and you doing it anyway. Using the idea of kintsugi, by confronting the reality of things accepting it, recalibration, and transformation. Think of pottery repaired with gold (Kintsugi), friendships that dissolve into lessons, or old systems crumbling to make way for innovation. It's about reevaluating life, dusting your self off and making the most of what's left.