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...with you, even if it's
just visual contact.
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I'm not going to give a talk, I'm
putting an example of something real.
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I'm putting an example of a scenario
where there are two persons,
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another person from IBM
is doing the introduction
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and he works at IBM Research,
he's one of our big research gurus,
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his name is Dario Gil, he's
from Madrid, Spain,
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and right now he's leading more
than 1,500 people in the
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research wing at IBM Research.
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Dario does the introduction and
there's an example of a real scenario
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of collaboration between two persons
and a system.
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And I'd like... I'm not doing anything else,
because what I want is for you to think,
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because this talk is about expertise,
how are you going to support or
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how are you going to use
your expertise in the future?
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You've been studying for four years,
for those that it's been four years, if not more,
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and it turns out that we world we lived in,
the world that you knew when
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you entered this university and
and the world that will be when
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you graduate.
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Just in four years,
the scenarios and the expertise,
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the experience, the knowledge
you'll have to apply
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it'll have to be in
a different way by then.
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And I'd like you to see the scenario
and later, based on that scenario,
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ask me questions.
Alright?
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Okay, so instead of me
giving the talk, let's leave it
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to my friend Dario Gil.
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URL to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heqP8d6vtQ
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Well, look, given that we can't listen
to the video, we'll look at it
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and I'll explain it, okay?
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What you're seeing there is
two persons standing, and the screen
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behind is a system,
the Watson system.
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The system is currently using
open data and what they're about to do
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collaboratively between those two
persons and the system is
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making a decision, okay?
And the system,
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as they ask it questions and
how they ask Watson,
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obviously each time...
this one is Michael Perrone
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and the other is Bryan.
Each time Michael
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asks it something, he talks
on behalf of Watson and the moment
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Watson gets the sentence with
the question being asked
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by the person, okay?,
it answers with the information.
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Right now, he asked it to show
all the companies that have anything
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to do with technological innovation
in the ambit of artificial intelligence
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and in the conversation between
a person and a system.
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Now Bryan is preparing
information for Watson
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of all those words
considered as relevant
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regarding the question about
to be asked. And note
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that what he's giving...
right now they're looking for
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companies directly dedicated
to the field of robotics.
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And on that chart showed by Watson
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is where you can see the interrelations.
They're doing all of this
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as they're talking, okay?
The information is popping up
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and now he's about to ask Watson...
he's asking it to, please, make
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a decision table, which is
what has just appeared over there,
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to be able to make a comparison
between the three companies from the information
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that they think is more relevant.
And right now they're giving it,
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he's telling Watson what are
the arguments they want to use
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for the decision table.
That's the decision table,
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they put in it four companies and now
he's asking it to, please, apply
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more parameters to compare
more information.
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That's what you just saw, okay?
And what he's telling Watson now
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is to tell him what's its recommendation
and, as you see, it pointed to a company
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as a recommendation to buy.
What they're both doing is to decide
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what company they're buying.
Can you see it?
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So, my question,
and I'm leaving it here, is...
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When you think about your future,
considering this is real,
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that this is not a demo, this system
is used by IBM for its purchasing of companies
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and they do it this way.
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Considering a system that is
able to interact with you
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naturally, that is able to swallow
all that information and is able
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to show the information as
you need it in the making of decisions
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in a completely natural way...
the question is:
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how will your way of work
look like in the future?
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And I'd like that, when we reach
the questions and answers part,
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you ask me questions about it.
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What is the value of knowledge
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And how is it going to use that knowledge in a company?
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in a company for example as IBM
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What do we expect in such an environment?
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What type of people profile
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It is in people that a company as IBM
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In your different branches want to hire?
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What type of work are you going to develop?
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What is the type of values in which we believe
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And in which we believe that they are the ones who push
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To people and companies for the future?
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What is the type of diversity in which
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We are convinced that it is absolutely necessary
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To create the breeding ground for innovation
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And the discovery?
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What kind of work environment
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can you expect?
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Make that reflection and ready to answer
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the questions as soon as the round table
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thank you very much
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When I was called to give this conference
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The first question that came to mind
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Was it to me
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Because the normal because maybe watching Elisa and Maria Jose
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Is to call people with or extraordinary people
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or people with extraordinary careers
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And mine was not like that, but it may have been
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Even ordinary in all aspects of the word
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But I thought and why me?
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What can I tell these guys?
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And I said no, not clear and there was one thing
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That I said clear that connects me with them
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And is that exactly 20 years ago
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I was sitting where you are sitting now
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Then I said good I thought to myself
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Maybe what I can share is
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Because part of what I have done in recent years
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And, and some lessons learned
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With which 20 years ago I was sitting there
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And I was thinking about my professional career
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That today I had been asked to give a talk
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A conference on professional orientation
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When I thought about my professional career
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I thought maybe
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that I have to do? Or how can that be?
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Who do I have to be for IBM to hire me?
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Well now my approach is very very different
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And what I want to convey is that this
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It's not about your career this goes
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That you are happy and make happy
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To the people who are going to surround you in the future
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Then you have to see your professional career
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As a vehicle as a means to be happy you
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And make people happy around you
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If I ask you
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How many of you know exactly
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What are you going to do in your professional career
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In the next 20 years now that you are going to license them?
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Raise your hand those you know exactly what you are going to do
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Well there is one, there is one that at least
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What a lucky man, because I remember when
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Finish the college career
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I was more lost than Heidi on Mother's Day
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Of course in your generation I do not know if you know who Heidi is
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But she was an orphan, the case is that she did not have
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Nor the most remote idea of who he was or what he wanted to do
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I was absolutely lost
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With which the first idea that I want to transmit
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Is that you do not worry if when you finish the college career
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You are lost is something absolutely normal
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And it is something that we have spent almost all
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In fact the most interesting people I've ever met in my life
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And in my career almost all have been very lost
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At some point in your life because maybe
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The only way to find us is to lose ourselves
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Here we see two people with a professional profile
-
very different
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Steve Jobs I was created a startup in Silicon Valley
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And I lived there 3 years and something widely accepted in Silicon Valley
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Is that Steve Jobs was a genius
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Steve Jobs and this other person have a skill set
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A "set of skills" as they say there totally different
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Are two very different profiles that in your life
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And in their professional career they have done things
-
very different
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For me Steve Jobs was certainly a genius
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But as Lao Tse said in the Tao Te Ching
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Maybe somebody know him one of the works
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Peaks of humanity
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Everything is relative
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Then just like Steve Jobs was a genius
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This man is a crack to me and I am
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The goals that I scored 20 years ago for my professional career
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Because I have not yet reached the highest evidently
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In terms of the goals that you mark me
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But I dreamed when I was your age
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Was that they paid me for sleeping and this man has done it
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With which, but good jokes apart
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What I do think is very important
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Is that the starting point is to know
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To yourself and think about what you want to do
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In whom you want to convert
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The fact is that all of us here
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We have been given a one-stage time
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And it is no coincidence that you were born in Madrid
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In Seville or wherever you were born
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That you are born children of so-and-so
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That each of you have a series of talents
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A series of capacities and possibly infinite potentialities
-
All this is no accident
-
Is for something then, part of your work at the moment
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Is to investigate a little and be a little attentive
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to the world around you, to your world we each have ours
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And think that you have come here
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And in that you want to use those capacities that you all have
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Depending on that you can decide if
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You want to be an entrepreneur or if your profile is an entrepreneur
-
And you want to go to Silicon Valley to mount a startup
-
or if I do not know, if you want to be teachers,
-
if you want to be pianists, or if you want to have
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a sure work that is not of many complications
-
and live quiet you can even get to sleep
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at work, it does not matter, everything is good
-
the important thing is that you discover what is yours.
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Obviously, once you discover that
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you will have to make many decisions
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in the next 20 years, in the next 30 years
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from the moment you finish the race,
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you will having to take, one decision after another.
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I remember a couple of years ago or so, in the summer
-
of 2015, that was going to spend the summer in Tarifa,
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because I like to do a lot of windsurfing, and well
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I said this summer I'm going to Tarifa, and I remember
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That in 2008 when my adventure in the Silicon Valley
-
was ending or I already started
-
to intuit that it was going to end,
-
because the body and called me the next adventure
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I remember telling Johanna Classen,
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A person of great value, I tell you there,
-
I said, I'm totally lost Johanna,
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I do not know what to do from now,
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I do not know if I start another company,
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if I become an employee again, if I go traveling,
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if I go to Maui to surf, if it makes me a MBA
-
maybe and to continue forming, I said to him
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I do not know, the truth is that I do not know very well
-
where I want to go and Johanna, a very wise person,
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She said, look at Thomas why you do not start
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write a diary, and that I did,
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It was a very enriching experience
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And that he contributed a lot to me, which follows me
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providing of course and later read
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in a book by Stephen Covey, which he said
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that writing unites our consciousness with
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our unconscious, is a deep exercise
-
and rich, the case is that in 2015 I was carrying
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one hundred and one hundred pages and take me to Tarifa
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that summer, I printed them, because of course
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I have them on Google Drive, and I took it to Tarifa
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and after browsing, as I read it,
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after reading the hundred pages,
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that made me relive beautiful moments,
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of the past, ugly, a little of everything and learn
-
a lot about me. There is one thing that stands out
-
which was as next,
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I realized that everything
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what I had in my life I had decided, everything.
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At that time he was CEO of Termicro
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for Spain and Portugal, be CEO of
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Termicro had decided it, to live in Madrid
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I had decided, the clothes I wore
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I had decided, learn what I had learned,
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I had decided, the experiences I had,
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I had decided to have them, with which, and at that moment
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The truth is that I complained, "Uff, what work do I have"
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or this I do not like, this does not fill me, this yes, this does not
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and I said but if all I have I have decided,
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the only thing I have to do now, from
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of that moment, is to decide who I want to be
-
from here to 5, 10 years, I want to do,
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what experiences do I want to have, with which
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something fundamental that I would like to transmit
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in case you help, it has helped me a lot
-
to come to that conclusion, is what, as human beings
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we have a very potent capacity, which is the
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ability to decide,
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So what, do you know
-
from now on all the decisions that
-
you are going to be keys to your future
-
and make you be exactly where you want to be
-
in the future.
-
Deciding is very difficult,
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I now, as of January 1, I dedicate myself
-
fundamentally to coaching and mentoring
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and what I'm seeing, is that almost all my clients
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they are confused and do not know very well when
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have to make a decision on where to go.
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And i remember
-
that in the year
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I think it was about
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2006 I started doing yoga and I had a teacher
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that the truth was great and the dude was in a cloud,
-
He had an inner peace, but I never went beyond
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the teacher-student relationship in class
-
I had never talked to him, and it was in 2008
-
when I went to talk to him and I said: "Juan Vicente
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I'm absolutely lost,
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I do not know towards
-
where I want to go, I do not know if I want to continue doing
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what I've done so far, I'm very lost. "
-
But I remember that for me what struck me most
-
and what I did very much stress to Juan Vicente was:
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"But Juan Vicente is that I'm 28 years old"
-
of course, the movie that I had done when
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was sitting there
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where you are sitting now,
-
is that at 28, the whole movie that I had done
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married, with children, a job, money, and I do not know what
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I thought I would be there, and when I arrived
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at 28 did not coincide, with which all the
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movie that I had made was only in my mind,
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did not exist,
-
and then to Juan Vicente I said to him:
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"Besides, as the worst I am 28 years old and
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I mean, there with 15 or 18, 20 or 24
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when you finish the race but with 28 ".
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And I remember that he kept staring at me
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from that infinite peace I had
-
and I said:
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"I'm just like you
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and I have 58 "
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and I said, "Oysters!"
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very well, helped me a lot and gave me an idea
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which was a treasure that has accompanied me these
-
years, he told me "Tomás you have to see your life
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and your professional career as a solar system.
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In the solar system there is a center that is the Sun
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and everything, in this system revolves around that center "
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with which he said to me: "You have to find a center
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and that everything revolves around that center "
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And there he left.
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I left there very happy
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and I spend 10 or 12 years at least looking
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center.
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Well, at one point I thought
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the center, the women who are beautiful, next
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the money, I want to earn a lot of money,
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I did not fill myself, the following I want to create
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companies, I want to create a company and sell it,
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go to Silicon Valley to create a company and sell it.
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I managed to create the company, I did everything,
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I did not get it to sell but I still got it
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the lesson, did not fill me either
-
So I started to do a series of things,
to put them in the center.
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And I couldn't find the center, and
it had been years since I last saw this man,
-
so I was like "damn, what's my center?".
I had no idea.
-
So, not long ago, I realized
what my center had been
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during all my life, and what I want it
to be my center for the rest of it.
-
Sounds super sappy, and I know,
because it sounds like that to me too.
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But I realized that the very center
of my solar system
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had to be love.
You have to, and I encourage you
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to love where you work, to love
from now on what you do,
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the people you mingle with,
the city you live in,
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love what you're learning.
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Let's put it like "cool to me, I'm into it
or this fills me" if you'd like to.
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"I like what I do, what I am,
what I'm learning,
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who I'm becoming, etc, etc...".
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So, whenever you're about
to make a decision,
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let love be in the center, the core of it,
something that you like
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and that fills you.
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In my professional career and
in my personal life I've found out
-
that following your heart, I mean,
letting love lead us
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is something quite difficult because,
almost inevitably, stepping out
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of our comfort zone, following
our hearts involves
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stepping out of our comfort zone.
So we have to be brave.
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They say God owns the world
but He leaves it to the brave ones.
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So, for the next few years,
I encourage you to be brave
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and have the courage to
follow your heart and
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to choose who you want to be.
And to choose, whether IBM,
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Tomás Lara, Google or
whoever comes to hire you,
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whether spending those years of your life
in that place will make you better persons or not.
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Well, my talk about the comfort zone
lasts for an hour
-
and I thought "how am I fitting it
here and make a one-minute slide?".
-
I honestly thought:
"that's absolutely impossible".
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Then, what I would basically tell you
in this moment of your lives
-
about this slide and stepping out of
your comfort zone, it could be summed up
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by stepping out of your comfort zone automatically
involves stepping into the learning zone.
-
I remember Feliciano Rivera one of my
Great masters who was my boss in the US
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He always I went with 30 years to Silicon Valley
And he always told me you have to stretch
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"You have to stretch yourself" he told me and it's true
I had to stretch one day to here for another here
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Another for here, what I realized is that everyone
Those stretches which they did apart from
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To expand my inner world, was to
If this was my comfort zone when doing so
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I had expanded and gone outside and
He had done something new and had entered
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Especially in the area of learning with
which from now on you do what you do
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Work for who you work also me
I will translate another learning I had in
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My career, is that the companies pay you on one
Coin that has two faces
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A face is money is worth, now I earn 30000
now 35000, now 45000, now 70,000
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And it's another learning I for a while in
my career I sold and how I sold I bought
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And pay it expensive, I paid even very expensive
because those years of my life I do not give them back to me
-
And the money disappears with which
in the future you can ask a question
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How much do I want to win? For me, I asked myself
that question and that's why I share it with you
-
For me that question is absolutely wrong
-
The other side of the coin, has to do with the
experience with learning my American boss Feliciano
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I also repeated the same thing "we are shape
by our experiences" that could be defined as
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Our experiences make us
about us
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Then the face of the coin that has
to do with learning and experience
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Is absolutely fundamental with which what I would
invite you and I would encourage you in the future
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To your professional career is that you
always ask what I want to learn
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The million dollar question I do not know
if it was from a TV show or something
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But the million dollar question is that I want
to learn and depending on what you want to learn
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In your future you will do one thing or another
-
For me the future has nothing to do with
Mariano Rajoy with Pablo Iglesias or with
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The Merkel or ... the future is you for that
When they called me for this conference
-
I was very excited, because I really
feel that giving this conference I am in some way
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Touching the future, because the future, a new
Humanity, something different from what we have now or better
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Or taking the good that we have now and even
improving it is currently in your hands
-
Many times our worst enemies are
Our parents, our friends our surroundings
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That make us think that we are not worth or that
we are not worth it or that we are not good enough
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Do not believe anything of all that you have all
infinite potential and from here to your future.
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In the next 20 years you can do exactly what you want.
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Thank you very much.
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Subtitles by César Godino, Alfredo Hernández
and Miguel Pomboza - ELP