Malala Yousafzai Did Some Nifty Card Tricks With Stephen Colbert; Continues To Be Great At Everything
These two are just adorable.
When Malala Yousafzai was 11 years old she was already writing for the BBC. Blogging about her life and community, her subversive work revealed the ongoing violence and injustice of the Taliban’s occupation of Pakistan, and the particular challenges this brought for young women. Within a few years she was world-famous and incited an assassination attempt from those she rallied against.
After surviving a bullet to the head, she fearlessly continued her work and was given a number of larger platforms from which to speak. Malala has been listed as one of Time‘s Most Influential People in the world for the past three years, she’s been awarded an honorary doctorate, and last year (at just 17) she became the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Her activism around education has led to the creation of a not-for-profit to help young girls into schooling, Pakistan’s first Right to Education Bill ensuring all children access to school by the end of this year, and she’s also opened a standalone school especially for Syrian refugees. Overnight she spoke about all this at the Global Citizen Festival in New York alongside Michelle Obama and Beyoncé.
But right before this, she added one more impressive talent to her CV: she’s really good at card tricks.
It’s best not to compare yourself. When I was 18, my biggest achievement was writing a suite of angsty short stories and my best trick was not immediately throwing up while playing King’s Cup.