The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks.
Some attribute this golden world knowledge to Plato, others to Pythagoras.
But the truth is it doesn't really matter which sage said it first,
because it's still sage advice, even today.
"Know thyself."
It's pithy almost to the point of being meaningless,
but it rings familiar and true, doesn't it?
"Know thyself."
I understand this timeless dictum as a statement about the problems,
or more exactly, the confusions, of consciousness.
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self.
This fascination led me to submerge myself in art,
study neuroscience, and later, to become a psychotherapist.
Today I combine all my passions as the CEO of InteraXon,
a thought-controlled computing company.
My goal, quite simply, is to help people become more in tune with themselves.
I take it from this little dictum, "Know thyself."
If you think about it,
this imperative is kind of the defining characteristic of our species, isn't it?
I mean, it's self-awareness
that separates Homo sapiens from earlier instances of our mankind.
Today we're often too busy
tending to our iPhones and iPods to really stop and get to know ourselves.
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations,
e-mails, relentless exchange of media channels
and passwords and apps and reminders and Tweets and tags,
we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place:
Ourselves.
Much of the time we're transfixed
by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves out into the world.
And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
We've cluttered ourselves up with all this.
And we feel like we have to get far, far away to a secluded retreat,
leaving it all behind.
So we go far away to the top of a mountain,
assuming that perching ourselves on a piece
is bound to give us the respite we need to sort the clutter, the chaotic everyday,
and find ourselves again.
But on that mountain where we gain that beautiful peace of mind,
what are we really achieving?
It's really only a successful escape.
Think of the term we use, "Retreat."
This is the term that armies use when they've lost a battle.
It means we've got to get out of here.
Is this how we feel about the pressures of our world,
that in order to get inside ourselves,
you have to run for the hills?
And the problem with escaping your day-to-day life
is that you have to come home, eventually.
So when you think about it,
we're almost like a tourist visiting ourselves over there.
And eventually, that vacation's got to come to an end.
So my question to you is,
can we find ways to know ourselves without the escape?
Can we redefine our relationship with the technologized world
in order to have the heightened sense of self-awareness that we seek?
Can we live here and now in our wired web
and still follow those ancient instructions, "Know thyself?"
I say the answer is yes.
And I'm here today to share a new way
that we're working with technology to this end,
to get familiar with our inner self like never before...
Humanizing technology and furthering that age-old quest of ours
to more fully know the self.
It's called thought-controlled computing.
You may or may not have noticed
that I'm wearing a tiny electrode on my forehead.
This is actually a brainwave sensor
that's reading the electrical activity of my brain
as I give this talk.
These brainwaves are being analyzed and we can see them as a graph.
That blue line there is my brainwave.
It's the direct signal being recorded from my head, rendered in real time.
The green and red bars show that same signal displayed by frequency,
with lower frequencies here
and higher frequencies up here.
You're actually looking inside my head as I speak.
These graphs are compelling, they're undulating,
but from a human's perspective, they're actually not very useful.
That's why we've spent a lot of time
thinking about how to make this data meaningful to the people who use it.
For instance,
what if I could use this data to find out how relaxed I am at any moment?
Or what if I can take that information
and put it into an organic shape up on the screen?
The shape on the right over here
has become an indicator of what's going on in my head.
The more relaxed I am,
the more the energy's going to fall through it.
I may also be interested in knowing how focused I am,
so I can put my level of attention into the circuit board on the other side.
And the more focused my brain is,
the more the circuit board is going to surge with energy.
Ordinarily, I would have no way of knowing how focused or relaxed I was
in any tangible way.
As we know, our feelings about how we're feeling
are notoriously unreliable.
We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it
until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it,
and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves
a little earlier.
This new awareness opens up vast possibilities
for applications that help improve our lives and ourselves.
We're trying to create technology that uses the insights
to make our work more efficient, our breaks more relaxing
and our connections deeper and more fulfilling than ever.
I'm going to share some of these visions with you in a bit,
but first I want to take a look at how we got here.
By the way, feel free to check in on my head at any time.
(Laughter)
My team at InteraXon and I
have been developing thought-controlled application for almost a decade now.
In the first phase of development,
we were really enthused by all the things we could control with our mind.
We were making things activate, light up and work just by thinking.
We were transcending the space between the mind and the device.
We brought to life a vast array of prototypes and products
that you could control with your mind,
like thought-controlled home appliances
or slot-car games or video games or a levitating chair.
We created technology and applications that engaged people's imaginations,
and it was really exciting.
And then we were asked to do something really big for the Olympics.
We were invited to create a massive installation
at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics,
were used in Vancouver,
got to control the lighting on the CN Tower,
the Canadian Parliament buildings and Niagara Falls
from all the way across the country using their minds.
Over 17 days at the Olympics, 7,000 visitors from all over the world
actually got to individually control the light
from the CN Tower, parliament and Niagara in real time
with their minds from across the country, 3,000 km away.
So controlling stuff with your mind is pretty cool.
But we're always interested in multitiered levels of human interaction.
And so we began looking into inventing thought-controlled applications
in a more complex frame than just control.
And that was responsiveness.
We realized that we had a system
that allowed technology to know something about you.
And it could join into the relationship with you.
We created the responsive room
where the lights, music and blinds adjusted to your state.
They followed these little shifts in your mental activity.
So as you settled into relaxation at the end of a hard day,
on the couch in our office,
the music would mellow with you.
When you read, the desk lamp would get brighter.
If you nod off, the system would know, dimming to darkness as you do.
We then realized that if technology could know something about you
and use it to help you,
there's an even more valuable application than that.
That you could know something about yourself.
We could know sides of ourselves that were all but invisible
and come to see things that were previously hidden.
Let me show you an example of what I'm talking about here.
I do have a video of an application I created for the iPad.
So the goal of the original game Zen Bound is to wrap a rope around a wooden form.
So you use it with your headset.
The headset connects wirelessly to an iPad or a smartphone.
In that headset, you have fabric sensors on your forehead and above the ear.
In the original Zen Bound game,
you play it by scrolling your fingers over the pad.
In the game that we created, of course,
you control the wooden form that's on the screen there with your mind.
As you focus on the wooden form,
it rotates.
The more you focus, the faster the rotation.
This is for real.
This is not a fake.
What's really interesting to me though
is at the end of the game, you get stats and feedback about how you did.
You have graphs and charts that tell you how your brain was doing...
Not just how much rope you used or what your high score is,
but what was going on inside of your mind.
And this is valuable feedback
that we can use to understand what's going on inside of ourselves.
I like to call this "intra-active."
Normally, we think about technology as interactive.
This technology is intra-active.
It understands what's inside of you
and builds a sort of responsive relationship
between you and your technology
so that you can use this information to move you forward.
So you can use this information to understand you in a responsive loop.
For example,
a thought controlled computer can teach children with ADD
how to improve their focus.
With ADD, children have a low proportion of beta waves, or focus state,
and high proportion of theta states.
So you can create applications that reward focused brain states.
So you can imagine kids playing video games with their brain waves
and improving their ADD symptoms as they do it.
This can be as effective as Ritalin.
Perhaps even more importantly,
thought-controlled computing can give children with ADD
insights into their own fluctuating mental states,
so they can better understand themselves and their learning needs.
The way these children will be able to use their new awareness to improve themselves
will upend many of the damaging and widespread social stigmas
that people who are diagnosed as different are challenged with.
We can peer inside our heads
and interact with what was once locked away from us,
what once mystified and separated us.
Brainwave technology can understand us, anticipate our emotions
and find the best solutions for our needs.
Imagine this collected awareness of the individual
computed and reflected across an entire lifespan.
Imagine the insights that you can gain from this kind of second sight.
It would be like plugging into your own personal Google.
On the subject of Google,
today you can search and tag images
based on the thoughts and feelings you had while you watched them.
You can tag pictures of baby animals as happy,
or whatever baby animals are to you,
and then you can search that database, navigating with your feelings,
rather than the keywords that just hint at them.
Or you could tag Facebook photos
with the emotions that you had associated with those memories
and then instantly prioritize the streams that catch your attention,
just like this.
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural
about the human-tech experience
and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
As it aligns with our human behaviors,
it can allow us to make better sense of what we do
and, more importantly, why.
Creating a big picture out of all the important little details
that make up who we are.
With humanized technology we can monitor the quality of your sleep cycles.
When our productivity starts to slacken, we can go back to that data
and see how we can make more effective balance between work and play.
Do you know what causes fatigue in you or what brings out your energetic self,
what triggers cause you to be depressed
or what fun things are going to bring you out of that funk?
Imagine if you had access to data
that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness
which people in your life made you the happiest,
or what activities brought you joy.
Would you make more time for those people? Would you prioritize?
Would you get a divorce?
(Laughter)
What thought-controlled computing can allow you to do
is build colorful layered pictures of our lives.
And with this, we can get the skinny on our psychological happenings
and build a story of our behaviors over time.
We can begin to see the underlying narratives that propel us forward
and tell us about what's going on.
And from this, we can learn how to change the plot, the outcome
and the character of our personal stories.
Two millennia ago, those Greeks had some powerful insights.
They knew that a fundamental piece falls into place
when you start to live out their little phrase,
when you come into contact with yourself.
They understood the power of human narrative
and the value that we place on humans as changing, evolving and growing.
But they understood something more fundamental...
The sheer joy in discovery,
the delight and fascination that we get from the world
and being ourselves in it;
the richness that we get from seeing, feeling and knowing the lives that we are.
My mom's an artist,
and as a child, I'd often see her bring things to life with the stroke of a brush.
One moment, it was all white space, pure possibility.
The next, it was alive with her colorful ideas and expressions.
As I sat easel-side, watching her transform canvas after canvas,
I learned that you could create your own world.
I learned that our own inner worlds...
Our ideas, emotions and imaginations...
Were, in fact, not bound by our brains and bodies.
If you could think it, if you could discover it,
you could bring it to life.
To me, thought-controlled computing
is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush...
One more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.
I look forward to the day that I can sit beside you, easel-side,
watching the world that we can create with our new toolboxes
and the discoveries that we can make about ourselves.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Maksima "Spoznaj sebe"
postoji još od stare Grčke.
Neki je pripisuju Platonu,
neki Pitagori,
ali i nije toliko bitno koji mudrac ju je prvi koristio,
već to da se zadržala do današnjih dana.
Spoznaj sebe.
Precizno pogađa suštinu,
gotovo do tačke besmisla,
ali zvuči poznato i istinito, zar ne?
Spoznaj sebe.
Ja ovu bezvremenu sentencu shvatam
kao izraz problema, ili preciznije, konfuzije
spoznaje.
Oduvek me je fasciniralo spoznavanje sebe.
Ta fascinacija me je inspirisala da "uronim" u svet umetnosti,
proučavam neuronauku
i kasnije postanem psihoterapeut.
Danas kombinujem te svoje strasti
kao izvršni direktor InteraXon-a,
kompanije koja se bavi stvaranjem
umom kontrolisane kompjuterske tehnologije.
Moj cilj, veoma jednostavno,
jeste da pomognem ljudima da budu usklađeniji sa samim sobom.
On proizlazi iz te kratke sentence,
Spoznaj sebe.
Kad malo razmislite, uvidećete
da je ovaj imperativ neka vrsta definisanja svojstva naše vrste, zar ne?
Samospoznaja je
ono što odvaja homosapiensa
od ranijih faza čovečanstva.
U današnje vreme smo suviše zauzeti
svojim iPhonima i iPodima
i nemamo vremena da zastanemo i zaista pogledamo u sebe.
U poplavi SMS komunikacije iz minuta u minut,
imejlova, neprestanog "bombardovanja" medija novim sadržajima,
lozinki, aplikacija, podsetnika, tvitovanja i tagovanja,
gubimo uvid u ono što stoji iza sve te huke i buke,
a to smo mi sami.
Većinu vremena smo "paralizovani"
svim načinima kojima izražavamo sebe u odnosu na spoljašnji svet,
i jedva da pronađemo malo vremena
da promislimo o svom unutrašnjem "ja".
Upleteni smo u čitavu tu gungulu,
i čini nam se da moramo da se povučemo
daleko u neko izolovano utočište i da ostavimo sve za sobom.
I tako odlazimo daleko,
na vrhove planina,
pretpostavljajući da će nam boravak tamo
doneti preko potreban predah
da se izborimo sa gungulom, svakodnevnim haosom,
i ponovo pronađemo sebe.
Ali, povlačenjem na tu planinu
koje nam pruža blaženi duševni mir,
šta je to što zaista postižemo?
To je zapravo samo uspešan beg.
Razmislite o terminu koji koristimo - "povlačenje".
To je termin koji se u vojsci koristi nakon izgubljene bitke.
To znači da moramo da odemo odavde.
Da li je to ono što osećamo u vezi sa pritiscima današnjice?
Da li je, da bismo spoznali sebe, potrebno "bežati u brda"?
Problem u begu od svakodnevnice
je to što se pre ili kasnije morate vratiti.
Kada malo razmislite o tome,
mi smo poput turista
koji posećuju sebe tamo.
A taj odmor se jednom mora završiti.
Dakle, moje pitanje je:
možemo li pronaći načine da spoznamo sebe
bez da tražimo utočište u begu?
Možemo li na drugačiji način da definišemo svoj odnos
prema svetu preplavljenom tehnologijom
u cilju pojačavanja osećaja samosvesti
za kojim tragamo?
Možemo li da živimo ovde i sada u svojoj globalnoj mreži
a da se pritom još uvek držimo drevnog saveta:
spoznaj sebe.
Ja smatram da je odgovor - da.
Ovde sam danas da podelim sa vama novi način
na koji možemo koristiti tehnologiju
da spoznamo svoje unutrašnje ja
kao nikada ranije -
humanizujući tehnologiju
i unapređujući to vekovno traganje
za potpunijom spoznajom sebe.
Zove se umom kontrolisano korišćenje računarske tehnologije.
Možda ste primetili
da imam malu elektrodu pričvršćenu na čelo.
To je zapravo senzor moždanih talasa
koji očitava elektro aktivnost mog mozga
dok držim ovaj govor.
Talasi se analiziraju i možemo ih videti predstavljene u grafikonu.
Ona plava linija predstavlja moje moždane talase.
To je direktni signal koji se beleži iz moje glave,
prikazan u realnom vremenu.
Zeleni i crveni deo predstavljaju isti taj signal prikazan frekvencijama,
nižim ovde, a višim tamo.
Bukvalno možete videti šta se odigrava u mojoj glavi dok pričam.
Ovi grafikoni privlače pažnju, talasasti su,
ali iz perspektive čoveka
oni zapravo i nisu od neke koristi.
Zato smo proveli mnogo vremena
razmišljajući kako da ove podatke učinimo smislenim
ljudima koji ih koriste.
Na primer, šta ako mogu da iskoristim ove podatke
da otkrijem koliko sam opuštena?
Ili ako ih predstavim u organskom obliku na ekranu?
Oblik sa desne strane postaje
pokazatelj procesa koji se odigravaju u mojoj glavi.
Što sam opuštenija,
više energije će teći kroz njega.
Možda me interesuje i koliko sam fokusirana,
pa mogu da unesem podatke o nivou pažnje u kontrolnu ploču sa druge strane.
Što je veći nivo koncentracije,
veće će biti promene u energiji koje očitava kontrolna tabla.
Uobičajeno, ne postoji nikakav opipljiv način
da saznam koliko sam opuštena ili fokusirana.
Kao što znamo,naša osećanja o tome kako se osećamo
su nepopravljivo nepouzdana.
Svima nam se dogodilo da i ne primetimo koliko se stresa u nama nagomilalo
sve dok se ne iskalimo na nekom ko to uopšte ne zaslužuje
a onda shvatimo da je trebalo da sami to uvidimo
i sprečimo na vreme.
Ova nova osvešćenost
otvara ogromne mogućnosti
za poboljšanje naših života i nas samih.
Pokušavamo da stvorimo tehnologiju koja na osnovu uvida u našu unutrašnjost
čini naš rad efikasnijim, a odmor opuštenijim,
naše veze dublje i smislenije nego ikad.
Podeliću neke od ovih vizija sa vama uskoro,
ali prvo želim da vam pokažem kako smo stigli do toga.
Slobodno bacite pogled na to
šta se dešava u mojoj glavi kad god vam odgovara.
(Smeh)
Moj tim u kompaniji InteraXon i ja radimo
na umom kontrolisanoj aplikaciji već deset godina.
U prvoj fazi smo bili oduševljeni količinom
stvari koje se mogu kontrolisati ljudskim umom.
Činili smo stvari aktivnim i sjajnim
isključivo razmišljanjem.
Uspeli smo da premostimo razlike
između ljudskog uma i uređaja.
Oživeli smo ogroman broj prototipa i proizvoda
koje je moguće kontrolisati ljudskim umom,
kao što su npr aparati za domaćinstvo,
slot ili vigeo igre,
ili levitirajuća stolica.
Stvorili smo tehnologiju i aplikacije
koje su podsticale maštu ljudi,
i to je bilo zaista uzbudljivo.
A onda smo dobili zadatak da uradimo nešto zaista bitno
za Olimpijske igre.
Trebalo je da napravimo ogromnu instalaciju
na Zimskoj Olimpijadi u Vankuveru 2010,
koja bi kontrolisala
rasvetu na zgradi C.N. Tauera,
zgradama kanadskog Parlamenta i Nijagarinim vodopadima,
a kojom bi se upravljalo sa drugog kraja zemlje
snagom ljudskog uma.
U periodu od 17 dana 7.000 posetilaca Olimpijade
imalo je priliku da pojedinačno kontroliše osvetljenje
na C.N. Taueru, Parlamentu i Nijagarinim vodopadima u realnom vremenu
snagom svog uma, sa udaljenosti od 3.000 km.
Dakle, kontrolisanje stvari snagom uma
je prilično kul.
Ali, mi se bavimo i istraživanjem višeslojne ljudske interakcije,
pa smo započeli rad na osmišljavanju
aplikacija kojima upravlja ljudski um
na kompleksniji način u odnosu na puko kontolisanje,
a to je povratna sprega.
Shvatili smo da postoji sistem
koji omogućava da tehnologija sazna nešto o vama,
i tako se može stvoriti veza između nje i vas.
Stvorili smo prostoriju za ispitivanje povratne sprege
u kojoj su svetlo i muzika bili prilagođeni nečijem stanju.
Kroz ove stvari praćene su promene u mentalnoj aktivnosti.
Tako da, ako se opuštate na kauču u kancelariji
na kraju napornog radnog dana,
i muzika postaje blaža, u skladu sa raspoloženjem.
Ako čitate, lampa na stolu sija jače.
Ako zadremate, sistem će znati za to,
i svetla će se prigušiti.
Shvatili smo da, ako tehnologija "sazna" nešto o ljudima,
i to iskoristi da nam pomogne,
dobićemo još vredniju primenu.
Tako možemo saznati nešto novo o sebi.
Možemo uvideti neke aspekte svoje ličnosti
kojih nismo ni bili svesni
i otkriti neke stvari koje su bile skrivene.
Pokazaću vam primer za ovo o čemu pričam.
Imam snimak aplikacije
koju sam napravila za iPad.
Cilj originalne Zen Baund igre
je obmotati uže oko određene figure od drveta.
Igramo je pomoću uređaja koji je pričvšćen za glavu.
Ovaj uređaj je bežičnom vezom povezan sa iPad-om ili smartfonom.
U njemu se nalaze
senzori prikačeni na čelo i iznad uha.
U originalnoj igri, igra se tako što
se prstima skroluje po ekranu.
U igri koju smo mi osmislili,
drvena figura na ekranu
se kontroliše umom.
Ako se koncentrišete na tu figuru,
ona će se okretati.
Što se više koncentrišete, rotacija je brža.
Ovo je stvarno moguće.
Nije laž.
Ono što je meni interesantno
je to da se po završenoj igri mogu dobiti statistički podaci
i fidbek o tome koliko ste bili uspešni.
Postoje grafikoni i tabele
sa podacima o tome kako se vaš mozak ponašao -
ne samo o tome koliko ste užeta iskoristili
ili koji je vaš najbolji rezultat,
nego i to šta se dešavalo
unutar vašeg uma.
A to su dragoceni povratni podaci
koje možemo da koristimo da saznamo
šta se dešava unutar nas.
Volim da ovaj proces nazivam
intra - aktivnim.
Obično tehnologiju doživljavamo
kao interaktivnu.
Ova tehnologija je intra - aktivna.
Ona razume šta se dešava unutar vas
i gradi neku vrstu povratne sprege
između vas i tehnologije.
Podaci koje dobijamo ovim putem
mogu nam pomoći da napredujemo,
da razumemo svoju ulogu u povratnoj sprezi.
Na primer, umom kontrolisana kompjuterska tehnologija
može da nauči decu koja pate od poremećaja pažnje
kako da poboljšaju koncentraciju.
Deca sa ovim sindromom imaju nisku proporciju beta talasa
za stanje fokusa i visoku proporciju teta stanja.
Za njih se može napraviti aplikacija koja nagrađuje stanja fokusa.
Zamislite decu koja igraju video igre snagom svojih moždanih talasa
i uz to rešavaju problem poremećaja pažnje.
To može delovati jednako efikasno kao i ritalin.
Ono što je možda od još većeg značaja,
jeste da ovakva kompjuterska tehnologija
može da pruži uvid ovoj deci u oscilacije njihovih mentalnih stanja,
tako da mogu bolje da razumeju sebe
i svoje potrebe pri učenju.
Nova svest o rešavanju ovog problema može da pomogne
deci da rade na sebi i da poboljšaju svoje stanje, što bi drastično uticalo
na sprečavanje raširene i štetne društvene stigmatizacije
sa kojom se ove osobe susreću.
Možemo da pogledamo šta se zbiva unutar naših glava,
i stupimo u vezu sa nečim što ranije nije bilo dostupno,
nečim što nas je nekada zbunjivalo i razdvajalo.
Tehnologija moždanih talasa može da nas razume, da predvidi naša osećanja
i pronađe najbolje rešenje za naše potrebe.
Zamislite svu ovu sakupljenu svest pojedinca
kompjuterski obrađenu i prikazanu kroz čitav životni vek.
Zamislite koliko toga se može saznati
iz drugačije perspektive.
Bilo bi to kao da ste se konektovali na svoj sopstveni Gugl.
Govoreći o Guglu,
danas možete naći i označiti slike
na osnovu misli i osećanja koja ste imali dok ste ih gledali.
Možete obeležiti slike mladunaca životinja kao srećne,
ili bilo kojim drugim osećanjem koje oni izazivaju u vama,
a onda možete istraživati bazu podataka,
rukovodeći se svojim osećanjima,
a ne ključnim rečima koje su samo nagoveštaj.
Ili možete da obeležite fotografije na Fejsbuku
emocijama koje vas vežu za te uspomene,
i time odmah date prioritet
stvarima koje vam privlače pažnju
ovako.
Humanizovanje tehnologije je uzimanje
onoga što već prirodno postoji u odnosu ljudi i tehnologije
i stvaranje tehnologije u skladu sa tim.
Usklađujući se sa ljudskim ponašanjem,
tehnologija nam može pružiti svest o tome šta radimo,
i još važnije, zašto to radimo,
stvarajući širu sliku
napravljenu od mnogo malih ali bitnih detalja
od kojih smo sačinjeni.
Uz pomoć humanizovane tehnologije
možemo pratiti kvalitet ciklusa spavanja.
Kada produktivnost počne da opada,
možemo se vratiti na podatke
i pogledati kako možemo napraviti bolju ravnotežu
između posla i zabave.
Znate li šta izaziva umor kod vas,
a šta povećava nivo energije,
šta vas čini depresivnim,
a šta vam pričinjava uživanje?
Zamislite da imate pristup podacima
koji, na skali sveukupne sreće, pružaju mogućnost rangiranja ljudi
koji su vas učinili najsrećnijim,
ili aktivnosti koje su vam pričinile najviše zadovoljstva.
Da li biste provodili više vremena sa tim ljudima?
Da li biste se razveli?
(Smeh)
Ono što umom kontrolisana kompjuterska tehnologija omogućava
je stvaranje živih, slojevitih slika naših života.
Uz pomoć toga, moguće je dobiti precizne podatke o psihološkim procesima
i stvoriti uvid u naše ponašanje kroz vreme.
Možemo spoznati stvari koje postoje ispod površine
koje nam daju podsticaj,
i pružaju detaljniji uvid u to šta se dešava.
Na taj način, možemo naučiti
kako da menjamo stvari i utičemo na ishod
i karakter
naših ličnih priča.
Pre dva milenijuma,
Grci su uočili neke zaista moćne istine.
Znali su da će se najvažniji deo slagalice uklopiti
u čitavu sliku jednom kada ljudi počnu da se ponašaju u skladu
sa tom njihovom kratkom izrekom, kada ostvare kontakt sa samim sobom.
Oni su razumeli snagu ljudske priče
i vrednost čoveka
kao bića koje se menja, evoluira, raste.
Ali oni su razumeli i još jednu, važniju stvar -
a to je sama radost otkrivanja,
zadovoljstvo i fascinacija koju nam pruža svet oko nas
i mi sami kao deo tog sveta,
bogatstvo koje nam pruža
posmatranje, osećanje i spoznaja života koji smo mi sami.
Moja majka je umetnica,
i kao dete sam često gledala
kako je oživljavala stvari jednim potezom četkice.
U jednom trenutku postojalo je samo prazno platno, mogućnost.
U sledećem, postajalo je živo,
puno raznobojnih ideja i izražaja.
Dok sam sedela kraj štafelaja,
posmatrajući je kako oslikava platno za platnom,
naučila sam da je moguće stvoriti svoj sopstveni svet.
Naučila sam da naši unutrašnji svetovi -
naše ideje, osećanja i mašta nisu, zapravo,
ograničeni našim mozgom i telom.
Ako smo u stanju da zamislimo određene ideje,
da ih otkrijemo, onda možemo i da ih oživimo.
Za mene, umom kontrolisano korišćenje kompjutera
je jednako jednostavno i moćno kao i potez četkicom po platnu -
to je još jedno od "oruđa" kojim možemo da oslobodimo
i oživimo skrivene svetove unutar nas.
Radujem se danu
kada ću moći da sedim pored vas,
i posmatram svet koji stvaramo novim alatkama
i nove stvari koje otkrivamo o sebi.
Hvala.
(Aplauz)