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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.84,0:00:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Dorothy was a little girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.77,0:00:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was fascinated by her goldfish.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.31,0:00:08.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her father explained to her that fish swim\Nby quickly wagging their tails
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.100,0:00:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to propel themselves through the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.20,0:00:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without hesitation,\Nlittle Dorothy responded,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.71,0:00:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, Daddy, and fish swim backwards\Nby wagging their heads."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.30,0:00:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.14,0:00:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In her mind, it was a fact\Nas true as any other.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.36,0:00:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fish swim backwards\Nby wagging their heads.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.56,0:00:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She believed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.38,0:00:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our lives are full\Nof fish swimming backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.43,0:00:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make assumptions\Nand faulty leaps of logic.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.08,0:00:32.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We harbor bias.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.39,0:00:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that we are right\Nand they are wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.51,0:00:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fear the worst.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.32,0:00:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We strive for unattainable perfection.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.77,0:00:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tell ourselves what we can\Nand cannot do.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.96,0:00:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our minds, fish swim by in reverse\Nfrantically wagging their heads
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.89,0:00:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we don't even notice them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.24,0:00:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to tell you five facts\Nabout myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.46,0:00:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One fact is not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.08,0:00:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One: I graduated from Harvard at 19\Nwith an Honor's Degree in Mathematics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.36,0:01:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two: I currently run\Na construction company in Orlando.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.68,0:01:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three: I starred on a television sitcom.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.47,0:01:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four: I lost my sight
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.82,0:01:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a rare genetic eye disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.93,0:01:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five: I served as a law clerk\Nto two U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.70,0:01:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which fact is not true?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.40,0:01:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, they're all true.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.68,0:01:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. They're all true.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.42,0:01:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.11,0:01:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At this point, most people really\Nonly care about the television show.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.81,0:01:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.08,0:01:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know this from experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.04,0:01:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so the show was NBC's\N"Saved By The Bell: The New Class."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.10,0:01:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I played Weasel Wyzell,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.49,0:01:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was the sort of dorky,\Nnerdy character on the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.58,0:01:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which made it\Na very major acting challenge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.57,0:02:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me as a 13-year old boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.52,0:02:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.58,0:02:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, did you struggle\Nwith number four, my blindness?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.38,0:02:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.52,0:02:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We make assumptions about\Nso-called disabilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a blind man, I confront\Nothers' incorrect assumptions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.57,0:02:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about my abilities every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.87,0:02:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My point today is not\Nabout my blindness, however.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.44,0:02:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about my vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.68,0:02:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going blind taught me\Nto live my life eyes wide open.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.38,0:02:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It taught me to spot\Nthose backwards-swimming fish
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.71,0:02:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that our minds create.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.47,0:02:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going blind cast them into focus.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.17,0:02:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it feel like to see?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.99,0:02:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's immediate and passive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.06,0:02:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You open your eyes and there's the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.23,0:02:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeing is believing. Sight is truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.36,0:02:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.88,0:02:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that's what I thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.67,0:02:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, from age 12 to 25,\Nmy retinas progressively deteriorated.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.18,0:02:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sight became an increasingly bizarre
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.50,0:03:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carnival funhouse hall\Nof mirrors and illusions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.66,0:03:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The salesperson I was relieved\Nto spot in a store
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.15,0:03:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was really a mannequin.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.96,0:03:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reaching down to wash my hands,\NI suddenly saw it was a urinal
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.34,0:03:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was touching, not a sink,\Nwhen my fingers felt its true shape.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.46,0:03:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A friend described the photograph\Nin my hand, and only then
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.84,0:03:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could I see the image depicted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.62,0:03:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Objects appeared, morphed\Nand disappeared in my reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.34,0:03:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was difficult and exhausting to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.67,0:03:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I pieced together fragmented,\Ntransitory images,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.41,0:03:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consciously analyzed the clues,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.91,0:03:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searched for some logic\Nin my crumbling kaleidoscope,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.88,0:03:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I saw nothing at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.47,0:03:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that what we see
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.56,0:03:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not universal truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.46,0:03:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not objective reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.98,0:03:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we see is a unique,\Npersonal, virtual reality
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.74,0:03:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is masterfully\Nconstructed by our brain.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.57,0:03:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me explain with a bit\Nof amateur neuroscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.35,0:04:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your visual cortex takes up\Nabout 30 percent of your brain.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.80,0:04:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's compared to approximately\Neight percent for touch
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.27,0:04:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two to three percent for hearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.71,0:04:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every second, your eyes can send\Nyour visual cortex
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.67,0:04:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as many as two billion\Npieces of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.51,0:04:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rest of your body can send your brain\Nonly an additional billion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.77,0:04:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So sight is one third\Nof your brain by volume,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.77,0:04:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can claim about two thirds\Nof your brain's processing resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.36,0:04:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's no surprise, then, that the illusion\Nof sight is so compelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.46,0:04:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But make no mistake about it:\Nsight is an illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.12,0:04:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's where it gets interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.02,0:04:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To create the experience of sight,\Nyour brain references
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.28,0:04:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your conceptual\Nunderstanding of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.66,0:04:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other knowledge, your memories,\Nopinions, emotions, mental attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.84,0:04:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these things and far more\Nare linked your brain to your sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.97,0:04:54.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These linkages work both ways,\Nand usually occur subconsciously,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.71,0:04:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.45,0:04:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you see impacts how you feel,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.58,0:05:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way you feel can literally\Nchange what you see.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.28,0:05:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Numerous studies demonstrate this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.64,0:05:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are asked to estimate\Nthe walking speed of a man
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.87,0:05:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a video, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.82,0:05:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your answer will be different if you're\Ntold to think about cheetahs or turtles.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.46,0:05:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hill appears steeper\Nif you've just exercised,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.23,0:05:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a landmark appears farther away
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.94,0:05:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're wearing a heavy backpack.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.09,0:05:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have arrived\Nat a fundamental contradiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.85,0:05:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you see is a complex mental\Nconstruction of your own making,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.81,0:05:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you experience it passively\Nas a direct representation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.84,0:05:37.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.97,0:05:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You create your own reality\Nand you believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.74,0:05:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believed mine until it broke apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.98,0:05:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The deterioration of my eyes\Nshattered the illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.43,0:05:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, sight is just one way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.14,0:05:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we shape our reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.59,0:05:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We create our own realities\Nin many other ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.03,0:06:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's take fear as just one example.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.54,0:06:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your fears distort your reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.03,0:06:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under the warped logic of fear,\Nanything is better than the uncertain.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.43,0:06:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fear fills the void at all costs,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.63,0:06:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passing off what you dread\Nfor what you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.31,0:06:17.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offering up the worst\Nin place of the ambiguous,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.82,0:06:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,substituting assumption for reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.30,0:06:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Psychologists have a great term for it:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.11,0:06:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awfulizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.02,0:06:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fear replaces the unknown with the awful.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.27,0:06:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, fear is self-realizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.26,0:06:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you face the greatest need to look\Noutside yourself and think critically,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.63,0:06:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fear beats a retreat\Ndeep inside your mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.56,0:06:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shrinking and distorting your view,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.16,0:06:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drowning your capacity\Nfor critical thought
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.74,0:06:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a flood of disruptive emotions.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.02,0:06:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you face a compelling\Nopportunity to take action,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.98,0:06:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fear lulls you into inaction,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.51,0:06:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enticing you to passively watch\Nits prophecies fulfill themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.88,0:07:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was diagnosed\Nwith my blinding disease,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.39,0:07:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew blindness would ruin my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.46,0:07:07.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blindness was a death sentence\Nfor my independence.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.55,0:07:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the end of achievement for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.65,0:07:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blindness meant I would live\Nan unremarkable life,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.64,0:07:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,small and sad,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.53,0:07:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and likely alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.59,0:07:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.53,0:07:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a fiction born of my fears,\Nbut I believed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.13,0:07:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a lie, but it was my reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.73,0:07:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like those backwards-swimming fish\Nin little Dorothy's mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.07,0:07:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I had not confronted\Nthe reality of my fear,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.55,0:07:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have lived it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.51,0:07:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am certain of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.14,0:07:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do you live your life\Neyes wide open?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.76,0:07:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a learned discipline.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.78,0:07:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be taught. It can be practiced.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.83,0:07:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will summarize very briefly.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.59,0:07:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hold yourself accountable
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.77,0:07:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for every moment, every thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.17,0:07:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every detail.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.32,0:08:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See beyond your fears.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.06,0:08:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Recognize your assumptions.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.62,0:08:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harness your internal strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.41,0:08:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Silence your internal critic.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.81,0:08:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Correct your misconceptions\Nabout luck and about success.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.18,0:08:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accept your strengths and your weaknesses,\Nand understand the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.70,0:08:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Open your hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.10,0:08:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to your bountiful blessings.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.68,0:08:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your fears, your critics,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.91,0:08:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your heroes, your villains,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.89,0:08:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are your excuses,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.87,0:08:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rationalizations, shortcuts,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.25,0:08:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,justifications, your surrender.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.62,0:08:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are fictions you perceive as reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.89,0:08:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choose to see through them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.75,0:08:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choose to let them go.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.09,0:08:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are the creator of your reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.38,0:08:46.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With that empowerment\Ncomes complete responsibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.39,0:08:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I chose to step out of fear's tunnel\Ninto terrain uncharted and undefined.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.77,0:08:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I chose to build there a blessed life.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.03,0:08:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Far from alone,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.17,0:09:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I share my beautiful life with Dorothy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.17,0:09:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my beautiful wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.83,0:09:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our triplets, who we call\Nthe Tripsky's,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.45,0:09:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with the latest addition\Nto the family,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.72,0:09:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet baby Clementine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.99,0:09:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you fear?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.59,0:09:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What lies do you tell yourself?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.58,0:09:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you embellish your truth\Nand write your own fictions?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.51,0:09:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What reality are you creating\Nfor yourself?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.36,0:09:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In your career and personal life,\Nin your relationships,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.48,0:09:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in your heart and soul,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.29,0:09:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your backwards-swimming fish\Ndo you great harm.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.76,0:09:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They exact a toll in missed opportunities\Nand unrealized potential,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.46,0:09:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they engender insecurity and distrust
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.16,0:09:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you seek fulfillment and connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.48,0:09:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I urge you to search them out.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.98,0:09:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helen Keller said that the only thing\Nworse than being blind
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.83,0:09:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is having sight but no vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.12,0:09:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, going blind\Nwas a profound blessing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.94,0:10:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because blindness gave me vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.83,0:10:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you can see what I see.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.50,0:10:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.57,0:10:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.95,0:10:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bruno Giussani: Isaac, before you\Nleave the stage, just a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.37,0:10:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an audience of entrepreneurs,\Nof doers, of innovators.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.78,0:10:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are a CEO of a company\Ndown in Florida,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.16,0:10:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many are probably wondering,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.22,0:10:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how is it to be a blind CEO?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.02,0:10:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of specific challenges do you\Nhave and how do you overcome them?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.83,0:10:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaac Lidsky: Well, the biggest challenge\Nbecame a blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.02,0:10:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't get visual feedback from people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.83,0:10:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.33,0:10:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BG: What's that noise there?\NIL: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.48,0:10:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for example,\Nin my leadership team meetings,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.00,0:10:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't see facial\Nexpressions or gestures.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.91,0:11:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've learned to solicit\Na lot more verbal feedback.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.50,0:11:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I basically force people\Nto tell me what they think.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.24,0:11:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this respect,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.24,0:11:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's become like I said a real blessing\Nfor me personally and for my company,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.14,0:11:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we communicate\Nat a far deeper level,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.58,0:11:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we avoid ambiguities,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.14,0:11:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most important,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.39,0:11:25.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my team knows that what\Nthey think truly matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.33,0:11:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BG: Isaac, thank you for coming to TED.\NIL: Thank you, Bruno.
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