Aditi Khorana is an author, speaker and teacher.
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Her work centers on language, myth, and the power of story to shape our world.
About Aditi
Aditi Khorana is an internationally renowned author of critically acclaimed and award-winning Young Adult novels, including Mirror in the Sky (Penguin, 2016) and The Library of Fates (Penguin, 2017). Both are Junior Library Guild Selections and have appeared on many best book lists.
Her debut novel is the subject of a TEDx talk, Harnessing the Power of the Unknown. She teaches Writing for Young People at Antioch University's MFA program, and also gives talks and teaches classes in the US and abroad on the creative capacity of language to shape our world. She is currently adapting her debut novel for TV. She is a Fellow at the Los Angeles Institute for Humanities.
She’s worked as an entertainment marketing consultant and creative consultant for Hollywood studios, including FOX, SONY and Paramount. She has also served on the board of The House of Beautiful Business, headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal.
In a former life, she worked as a producer at CNN, PBS and ABC News. Her work has been featured on NPR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, NBC News, Buzzfeed, EW, Bustle, Seventeen and Huffington Post. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Books
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TEDx: Harnessing the Power of the Unknown
We spend our lives figuring out the world through our intellect, strategies and the tools we've been given. But what if I told you that the greatest secrets to innovation, creativity and change lie in the realm of the Unknown? The ancients foretold the future through omens, visions and dreams. We use logic and numeracy but logic is never holistic; it operates on syllogisms that are then abstracted into words and language. Language can keep us locked in the world of the known.
In October 2017, I had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx Women in Culver City, CA. My talk, Harnessing the Power of the Unknown was about my own personal experiences with creativity, imagination and facing my fears. It’s really about stepping outside of expectations, narratives and stories that keep us locked in the dead zones of imagination. I believe that now, more than ever, we need to harness the power of the Unknown to create the kind of world we want.