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Six years ago, I walked away
from my six-figure dream job,

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a job that I readily invested
60-70 hours a week in,

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consistently over the course
of almost five years.

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I had my conscious reasons
for doing so at the time,

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but I also had other reasons
that I couldn't quite articulate.

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Nowadays, I would say
that I had a deep knowing,

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and only now do I feel in a position
where I can explain it.

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But first in order to do so,

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I need to tell you about a few things 
I've learned in the meantime

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about both ants and humans.

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So as a social entrepreneur
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I spend a lot of time thinking
about co-opetition in the service economy.

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In other words, how we can help each other
thrive more efficiently and effectively.

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It's this interest that led me
to ant research

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because ants work together.

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And by no stretch of the imagination
am I a myrmecologist,

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which is the type of scientist
that studies ants,

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but I do find their research 
really intriguing and valuable,

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and I think that it has vast implications
for both us and our systems.

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So let me drop 
a few heavy ant stats on you.

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So, ants have been around 
for a hundred million years,

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since the time of the dinosaurs.

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Arguably, they are one of the most 
successful species in history,

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and for those of you keeping score,

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dinosaurs: zero, ants: one,

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so they know something about surviving.

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Ants actually constitute a quarter 
or more of the animal biomass

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on the whole planet,

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which given the fact that
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is pretty amazing.

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In fact, if you rewind
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ants and humans
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they counterbalanced us on the planet.

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And still today, even though
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that's still largely true.

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So while we're having
environmental impacts

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and other sorts of things
that we might not have intended,

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ants are quietly working 
behind the scenes,

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repairing forest floors, 
that sort of thing.

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Ants can lift between 50 and 200 times
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and withstand between
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their own weight in pressure.

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But there's three specific lessons
that I think we can look to ants for

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that we can practically 
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The first is working together
to overcome obstacles

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and particularly obstacles
that we can't overcome on our own.

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This is a picture of fire ants,
and before I go any further

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anybody who knows fire ants
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might say, "Fire ants are jerks!"

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And, you know, probably you're right.

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But there are 14,000 known species of ants

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and many thousands more
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Maybe sometimes, but so are some humans,

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so don't paint them all
with the same brush.

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(Laughter)

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And with that, I will tell you
what this is a picture of.

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This is a fire ant raft

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during Hurricane Harvey
in Pearland, Texas.

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As you might expect,
a flood is pretty threatening for ants,

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and if they don't do something,
they'll obviously drown.

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So what they do is they build a raft,

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and all the other fire ants
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and it's sustainable for between
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If they tried to individually swim,

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they're not going to swim
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and so by banding together,
they can survive the flood, literally.

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Here's another example
from a type of army ant.

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When these ants encounter 
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they form a living bridge with each other,

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and the rest of the ants
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and accomplish whatever 
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more effectively and efficiently.

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In terms of practical applications for us,

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I think the problems that we feel
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are the ones where this comes into play.

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They are systemic, structural problems,

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environmental problems, 
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social problems, economic problems.

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And it's only through working together

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that we can actually
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The second lesson is on leadership
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I'm just going to show you a video now 
of an ant known as the longhorn crazy ant.

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They are carrying this Cheerio.

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Eight or nine of them are carrying
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and suddenly this one ant zips in

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and they start pulling it
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Obviously, that ant is not as strong
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but they're confident and assured,
and they come in and they know something.

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They start pulling
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and the other ants follow them.

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This video and the following video

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are from Prof. Ofer Feinerman 
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and his colleagues,

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and he has a couple things to say
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in the context of this video.

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One is, "This leader that comes along,
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she doesn't have to be stronger
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she just has to pull
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And "As far as we can tell,

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the scout is no different
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No one designates the leader.

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She designates herself

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because she has current knowledge
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I think this lesson is most applicable

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to those of you who work or volunteer

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in roles that wouldn't traditionally
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My challenge for you is to think about,
is there something that you know,

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a better way, a more efficient 
or effective path where you can show up,

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and just start leading 
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and have people follow you?

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The third lesson is making sure
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This is a video of a type of carpenter ant
and a process called ant trophallaxis.

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It's fluorescent food,
so you can see where the food's going.

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Two ants go, and they look for food.

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What you'll see is one ant 
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and the other ant doesn't find
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Through this process of trophallaxis
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they share the food.

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Something that you might
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is they actually have two stomachs.

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They have their own stomach,
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The purpose of the social stomach is -

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this is not really a typical example -

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it would be that only certain ants
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and other ants are back at their colony,
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So they will bring the food back 
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through their social stomach.

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In our context, our social stomach
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where we pay more, or we pay into

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to provide for the needs of everyone,

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not just ourselves.

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And this afternoon, there's going 
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about universal basic income

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as a potential way
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So I will leave it to Floyd
to talk to you all about that.

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The next lesson is about humans

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and that humans can also think
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"Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu"

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is a saying from the Xhosa
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which essentially means,

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"I am because you are,
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In other words, no person is an island.

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We define ourselves
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and better ourselves
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and how we serve one another.

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There's a quote.

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You may have heard this concept
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which is "ubuntu,"
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Audrey Tang says

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that ubuntu "implies that everyone
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people are not isolated,

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and through mutual support,

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they can help each other
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This is the closest human worldview

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to what I like to believe ants think
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which is basically what an ethos means,

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and how we, as humans,

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could really start embodying more
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But in order to do that,
I think it's time for a firmware upgrade.

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If you don't know what firmware is,

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it's a little bit of software
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You might be most familiar with it
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If you've ever updated your Android
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it allows you to do,
express, or build things

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that you couldn't do before.

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A most practical example
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you do a system update
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(Laughter)

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But the firmware upgrade
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is to do the inner work.

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Our firmware -
I'll move to the next slide -

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our firmware is passed down 
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and there's a lot of things in there.

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The firmware, just to be clear,

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is the software that runs
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A lot of the things passed down

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are no longer relevant,
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Let's just say there are a lot
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pun moderately intended.

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The way that we can work on getting 
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and that's working on how we think,
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and how we perceive the world.

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I'm really encouraged

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that there are thousands
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to help do that work,

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because much like the Cheerio,
we can't lift the heavy rocks ourselves.

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And those are heavy rocks

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that are revisiting basic programming
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that has us operate day in and day out.

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But I think, specifically, 
we're in need of a "reoriANTation,"

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if you'll allow me that,

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to move away from something
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What to need to move away from
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how can I get the most value for me,
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and move towards?

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How can I add the most value
for all of us right now?

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So with that said,
I can now tell you in a better way

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why I walked away
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six years ago.

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Essentially, I realized
I had this deep knowing

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that while what I was doing was valuable,

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and I was working extremely hard at it,
I wasn't showing up as my whole self.

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I wasn't showing up with all the value
I could bring to the world.

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And this is a question that I have 
really unpacked over the last six years,

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which has seen me start and found 
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but three very different businesses.

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The best way I could explain that

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is that one represents the most value
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with the left side of my brain;

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one is the most value I can bring
with the right side of my brain;

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and one is the most value
I can bring with my heart.

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And a lot of people don't understand that,

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and I'm not necessarily 
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I'm not looking
for their permission or approval.

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I know that what I'm doing is valuable,

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and much like the ant with the Cheerio,

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I'm just pulling with all my focus
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or in those directions.

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My question for you is,
what are you leaving on the table?

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What parts of yourself
are you not bringing to the world?

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How can you add the most value
for all of us right now?

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This is basically doing more
than you need to do.

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So, rather than working
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and then playing Candy Crush,
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or scrolling social media for five hours,

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or if you're like me,
maybe more than one of those things,

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take some of that time

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and devote it to creating value for others

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instead of simply consuming the value
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There's a saying which is,

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how we spend our days
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And just for some context,

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assuming that you've got about 
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if you spend an hour a day
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that's three weeks of your year.

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Two hours is one and a half months.

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The one thing we can't get is more time.

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So I hope that that inspires you to take
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of one of those hours

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and contribute it 
to what I'm talking about.

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So there's one other person 
who's talked about "ubuntu,"

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and his name's Nelson Mandela -
you might have heard of him.

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And he says, "Ubuntu does not mean
that people should not enrich themselves.

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The question therefore is,

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are you going to do so in order
to enable the community around you

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and to enable it to improve?"

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I like to believe that he meant
enrich in the broadest sense:

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physically, mentally, 
spiritually, financially.

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But there's something missing:

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a way to make this practical

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and an easy way to remember
in our daily lives

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because ubuntu is not necessarily
a concept that floats around here.

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So bear with me, I'm going
to go off for a second,

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but I promise I'll connect
the dots in a few slides.

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The word that came to mind
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and for anybody that plays poker,
it comes from there

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where each round of the card game,
everybody has to pay a certain amount.

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I think we need
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which rather than a small amount of money
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a small amount of value from every human

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that has contributed to the world.

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Another phrase is "ante up,"
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and that's really what I want
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is to think of what it is to do your part.

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To me, that's choosing to do more
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So, in other words,
start doing what you know has value

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on top of what the world
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even if other people
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And a fair question that you might ask is,

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"Well, how do I know what that is?"

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What I would say is I believe everybody
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and that if you quiet your mind 
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there's something inside you, 
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that will tell you what that is.

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And if you don't hear it,
listen even more intently.

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As a hint, if there's something
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or known you could do but aren't doing,

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go and do some of that.

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Just quickly, as a mental hook here,

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I was thinking about ants and energy,

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and Einstein had E = MC2 for energy,

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so I think of "ante" as "ant energy."

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And it's not enough
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but also Gandhi said, "Be the change 
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To me, that is about embodying this.

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How do you embody ant energy?

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And so, we face some
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ones that are seemingly intractable

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and I believe need us to bring
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The "ante" is already being upped
in the poker chips kind of game.

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The world is getting more complex,
and the problems are getting more complex.

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I think it's time for us to up
the ant energy to match that.

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And so the question
I'm leaving you with is,

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how are you going to "ante" up?