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Good afternoon.

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It's a real pleasure[br]to do another TED Talk.

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And today I'm going to talk[br]to you about you.

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And share with you, hopefully,

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an idea that's really made[br]a massive difference in my life

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and hopefully could make[br]a massive difference in your life too.

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I've spent my life, really,[br]studying human beings.

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When I was a kid,[br]I was the youngest of four,

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so I spent a lot of time[br]just watching my brothers and sisters

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and seeing the mess[br]and the challenge that they got into,

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and trying to clock how I avoided that.

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Then I had the great fortune[br]of training as a physician,

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and some of you may know

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that medical training[br]is the most incredible opportunity,

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because you get up close[br]and personal with human suffering

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on every single level, on a daily basis.

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I've been in a room where people[br]have died right in front of me,

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and it's a really profound moment.

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I've also been in a room[br]where life has come into the world;

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I've delivered a number of children,[br]including three of my own four boys,

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one of whom is at the back -

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Hi, son.

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(Laughter)

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(Son from the audience) Hi, dad!

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So medical training,[br]a fantastic experience.

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I became a researcher,[br]initially an immunologist,

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and studied right down to the nano detail

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of how our white blood cells[br]roll along the inside of our blood vessels

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and with really clever adhesion molecules

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stick and kind of squeeze out[br]between the endothelia cells

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and fight infection.

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More recently as a neuroscientist.[br]So right down at nano level.

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And also at a much bigger scale.

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I had the good fortune of working[br]with CEOs and leaders around the world

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in some of our biggest companies[br]and multi-nationals,

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looking at the hidden social dynamics[br]and the networks that exist

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that determine whether a company[br]succeeds or fails.

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As you heard,

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I've worked with elite athletes,[br]helping them to win gold medals.

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I've read a lot, learned a lot.

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And through all that time,[br]one question kept bothering me,

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sort of eating away at my brain.

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And that question was:

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if you could teach yourself,[br]your children, or anybody one thing,

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what would it be?

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What would that one thing be?

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You can only teach one thing

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of all the things[br]I've learned and understood,

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and it's that that I want[br]to share with you today.

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What is that one thing?

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I can tell you it's not "Eat an apple";[br]that's not what it is.

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We're going to talk about that.

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But before, I want to return, just,[br]to really the story of you.

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I don't know whether you remember,

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but there was a time[br]before you knew you existed.

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For some of you that was probably[br]last Friday night, after a skinful.

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(Laughter)

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But as we all grow up,[br]there's a moment in our life -

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and this is a really[br]beautiful moment if you witness it -

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where you can see, about one year old -

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it might happen a bit sooner, a bit later,[br]but roughly about one year old -

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where a child realizes they exist[br]as a physical entity.

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It's that moment where they look[br]in the mirror, and they kind of go,

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"Oh, that's me!"

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They move their hand[br]and that hand moves,

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and they realize that that's them.

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So they have a physical[br]awareness, if you will.

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But they haven't yet developed[br]an awareness of their emotional self,

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which is why you get the terrible twos.

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So when a two-year-old is hungry,

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the world is hungry[br]and why aren't we eating?

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So there's that kind of intensity,[br]that egocentricity in a two-year-old.

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That's where they kind of get[br]to test the power.

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So in the supermarket,

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it's "Mom, mom, that that, me, me,[br]food, food, me, me, me, food,"

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and they kind of bother you[br]to a great extent.

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And then again, it's witnessable,[br]this moment where they suddenly realize

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that not only are they[br]physically separate from you,

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but their emotions[br]are not your emotions.

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You may have witnessed this

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with a child walking down[br]the aisle in the supermarket,

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eyes, streaming red,[br]bawling in frustration and rage

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that they can't get what they want,

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and then looking at you[br]completely baffled,

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like: "Why aren't you crying?"

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"We're hungry;[br]we want those chocolates."

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(Laughter)

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There's that bafflement in their eyes,

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that sort of thousand yard stare.

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And that's the emergence[br]of the awareness of the emotional self,

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separate from the parent or the caregiver.

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So that's a sort of second level up,

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but it's not until they get[br]to three to six years old

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that they get into the "conceptual self,"

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and part of that emergence[br]is a sense of identity.

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So it's what you would know[br]as consciousness,

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is they start to become aware -

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not only that they're physically,[br]emotionally separate,

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but they've got an identity.

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And it blossoms between[br]three and six years old.

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One of the things that happens

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in the emergence[br]of conceptual self is language.

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So language is essentially a concept:[br]it's a noise to represent something.

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So the emergence[br]of conceptual self happens,

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and we start to label our universe -

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you know, cat, dog, bat, ball,[br]window, floor, and so on.

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So the world starts to make sense[br]and we start to be able to navigate.

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Children between the age[br]of three and six

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learn about six new words[br]every single day.

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There's phenomenal[br]language acquisition going on.

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But only from the fourth level,

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which is called concrete consciousness,

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they start to learn[br]the rules that govern the concepts.

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Then it all starts to make sense:

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why is a dog a dog and a cat a cat?

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Why is a mummy a mummy[br]and daddy a daddy?

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What's the rule?

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It's in that between[br]six and nine years old

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that the fun starts to happen.

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So if you speak to a seven-year-old,

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you can start to have fun[br]by playing against the rules -

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you know, look at that cat[br]going woof-woof?

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No!

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Cats go meow! They don't go woof-woof.

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And it makes them laugh[br]because you're playing against the rules.

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There's this whole[br]rule emergence that occurs

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in a child between six and nine.

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And then that's where most people

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stay ...

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(Laughter)

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Most of the people[br]you're going to meet, 20, 30, 40,

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on the inside: nine!

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(Laughter)

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See it in accompanies all the time:

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toys out of the pram,[br]behaving like children.

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It's very common.

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There is an attempt,[br]usually in the early teenage years,

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to get beyond that concrete self,[br]to get beyond the rules,

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which is why you get teenage conflict.

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You'll see it, and parents[br]try to suppress this,

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like it's a bad thing.

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It's a developmental stage!

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You shouldn't be suppressing this stuff;[br]they're testing the rules.

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So this battle ensues:

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you told me to be home at ten,[br]I want to be home at 11.

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You told me to be honest;[br]you're not being honest,

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and the fight breaks out.

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And they have their whole[br]turbulent teenage years.

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Regardless of who wins that battle,[br]whether it's mom or dad or the child,

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it bubbles along for a few years.

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Now eventually,[br]regardless of who wins the battle,

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they leave home - hopefully.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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They go! Right?

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But then a much bigger parent[br]called society comes in

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and imposes its rules.

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So a lot of people go back[br]into the concrete,

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not like transferred but back[br]in the concrete following a set of rules,

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that we start to believe[br]that we've got to get a degree,

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we've got to get a job,[br]a relationship, a car, a house,

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we've got to get all these things[br]to be a good corporate citizen.

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So we start to follow the rules,[br]and we enter a company,

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and we start to work our way[br]up the career ladder,

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following the rules.

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So a lot of people you'll encounter[br]are back in that concrete,

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their life become stereotypical.

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You'll see people talk about this:

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"That's not how we[br]do things at this company.

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You'll be the Chief Executive,[br]I'll be the Chief Financial Officer.

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That's how we do it around here."

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It's a set of rules[br]that we're all following,

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and we're often not even[br]aware of those rules.

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And that will often happen[br]for the rest of your life;

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you don't even realize[br]you're running the rules.

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By the way, these rules weren't given[br]to you with your permission;

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they were just imposed[br]by parents or society.

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We're not even aware of it.

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If you're lucky, you have a crisis.

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At some point in your life,

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something terrible happens[br]to get you to question the rules.

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Now, most people this never happens to -

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or if it does, it doesn't[br]cause them to question.

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That might be the loss of a loved one,

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the loss of a relationship[br]or something terrible happens,

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usually, most commonly, in midlife.

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Then you enter the stage[br]what we call "the disease of meaning,"

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is it starts to occur to you

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there's something wrong[br]with the picture of your life.

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I've been following all these rules,[br]and it hasn't delivered.

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I thought if I was[br]a good corporate citizen,

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and I got a good job, and a good house,[br]and paid tax and all of that stuff,

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I would be happy and blissful forever;

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and I'm not.

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That's the disease of meaning,[br]and that is real pain.

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If that happens in a religious context,[br]people call it purgatory.

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I mean, literally, it's hell on earth.

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So people get into this state[br]and often they lash out,

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they become unpleasant[br]and negative and so on,

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because they're basically in pain.

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Now there are two strategies to that pain.

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First strategy - much loved by students -

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anaesthetic.

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(Laughter)

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Because if I can blot[br]out the meaning of life,

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that kind of existential question -

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if I'm wasted on a Friday night,

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I don't have to think[br]about what's the meaning of all this.

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It just goes away as a question.

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So then some people do this every night,[br]some people every weekend, getting wasted,

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either through alcohol and drugs.

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But the problem is[br]when the hangover wears off,

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the question returns; it's still there.

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You can't answer it.

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If you're smart, you realize[br]anesthetics won't help you.

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So you get into the second strategy,[br]which is distraction.

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There are lots of different[br]types of distraction.

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That distraction can simply be[br]that you become a gym bunny.

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Let's pump some iron.

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Because when I'm feeling the burn,[br]I don't have to think about the question.

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So I become "the body beautiful,"[br]stuck at the gym the whole time,

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getting the kick[br]on the endorphins and so on.

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But you realize that, actually,[br]when you get away from the gym,

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the question is there again.

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So the gym doesn't solve it.

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So you might use[br]a very common strategy:

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sex ...

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Right?

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Because while I am engaged[br]in the intimacy of the sexual union,

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I don't have to think about the question,[br]because I'm too busy doing this.

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(Laughter)

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But you may have noticed[br]that when the act is over,

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that bloody question comes back again.

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So some people go even more nuts:[br]I'll have sex with two people,

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(Laughter)

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then a whole crowd -

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desperately trying to get away[br]from this question that's bothering them:

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the meaning of their life.

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So if sex doesn't work -[br]and it doesn't, ultimately -

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then you get into materialism: shoes!

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I'll go and buy some shoes.

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Or a car, or a house, or a yacht.

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So we get into materialism,

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or some people that we see,[br]very common in industry, workaholism -

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they become work-addicted.

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Because while I am working[br]that hard, having to do stuff,

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I don't have to think about the question.

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None of that solves the problem.

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Because we mistakenly believe

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that the problem is out there[br]and the solution is out there,

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whereas the real problem is in here.

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You cannot solve your sense[br]of emptiness, or your unrest,

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with an external solution[br]outside of yourself.

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So stop looking out there,[br]you have to look in here,

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and particularly to look[br]at your own emotional experience.

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Now, most people go through their life[br]completely unaware of emotions,

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particularly us fellows, right?

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If somebody mentions the word "emotions,"[br]we run for the hills!

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Emotions are just energy in motion,[br]they're composite biological signals:

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the signals made up[br]of all the pounding heart rate,

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the sweaty palms,[br]the tension in the muscles

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or whatever is going on biologically,

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it's stereotypical energetic patterns -[br]energy in motion, they are e-motions.

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Now, we all have emotions,[br]every single second of every single day,

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even us fellows.

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Feelings, however,[br]are something entirely different.

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Feelings are the awareness[br]in our mind of the energy.

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So the energy is always there[br]but we don't necessarily feel it,

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and that's where we're stuck -

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is we haven't really learned[br]to understand our own emotional life.

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So we go through our life

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believing how we're feeling[br]on a moment by moment basis

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is down to somebody else.

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We actually say this:

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"You annoyed me,"[br]"You made me unhappy,"

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"You did it to me,"[br]and we point the finger at other people,

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believing other people are[br]the cause of our own unhappiness.

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So newsflash:

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nobody's doing it to you.

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Nobody's making you feel these things.

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I mean, what do you think that happens

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when you get frustrated[br]with somebody else?

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Did they come up to you[br]and inject you with frustration,

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with the chemicals of frustration?

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Did they create the electrical[br]signals of frustration,

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the pressure waves, the sound waves?

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No. You did that.

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You created that inside yourself[br]in response to their poor behavior.

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So, if you can accept[br]that you're doing it -

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it's not them, it's you -

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that simple truth takes you[br]from what we call the victim position,

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and it crosses the threshold to ownership.

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That's the most important transition[br]you'll ever make in your life.

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So to help you navigate that,

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first and foremost, you have to understand[br]where am I in the universe of emotions.

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If I asked you to write down your current[br]emotions and gave you five minutes,

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you'd have a list of things,

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and then we said, OK,[br]put your hands up who's got how many,

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and we did a test of how many you got,

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the average in a room like this[br]would be about ten or twelve.

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There are 34,000 emotions[br]that you can experience.

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Most people go through life[br]with ten or twelve.

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And just to try to help you navigate,[br]I'll show you an app that we've built

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to help people know where they are[br]in the universe of emotions.

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So we've plotted[br]all these emotions on a map,

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and this map shows you the axes.

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So, to the top of the axis[br]in the universe of emotions,

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we've got the ones that are,[br]sort of, more energy, if you like,

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and to the bottom the ones[br]that are more relaxed.

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To the left the ones[br]that are more positive

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and to the right the ones[br]that are more negative.

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So you can see that we've plotted[br]maybe the 20 commonest emotions there,

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and as I'm talking to you, right now,[br]you're somewhere on this grid.

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You're somewhere in the universe[br]experiencing one of these planets,

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and we can bring in the next 100 emotions,

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we can bring in the next[br]200 emotions, the next 1,000.

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So we've built this app to try[br]and crowd source with you all 34,000,

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we've built it with[br]just 2,000 as a starter.

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And you can enter into[br]one of the 64 galaxies that exist

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and start to navigate round

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and see where you are in relation[br]to some of the other emotions,

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because if you don't know[br]where you are, you're lost.

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Now, you'd never get control[br]of your own state,

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and it's really important for your health,[br]for your well-being, for your success,

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whatever you're doing,

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whether you're a sportsperson[br]or a business leader,

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that you can start to control[br]your own emotional state

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of what's going on for you.

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If you don't know where you are,

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how can you possibly[br]control any of this stuff?

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The answer is you can't.

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So the start of the journey[br]is even knowing which planet are you on.

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This is designed to help you,[br]and you can see in the top corner there,

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it shows you roughly where you are[br]in the universe, at any point in time.

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Now, we can zoom in[br]into one of these 64 galaxies

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and look at a specific solar system.

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So, where do we go into? Maybe, Sociable.

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We can see.

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So let's zoom in [br]to the solar system of Sociable

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and start to see[br]what planets are around you.

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If you want to move[br]from Sociable to something else

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and then gradually navigate yourself[br]to a different part of the universe,

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you can see where you are.

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Most importantly,[br]you can track where you are,

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so you can enter some notes.

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You visit the planet of,[br]I don't know, Popular.

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I felt popular today.

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People came up and gave me[br]various messages, and I felt popular.

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And you could enter[br]how popular you felt or you didn't feel

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and actually keep an audit trail,

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and you can socialize this[br]with your mates.

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You can either share it on Facebook[br]or tweet it or Gmail it

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and see, well, who else [br]is in the solar system of Sociable

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or even on the planet Popular -[br]who else is out there.

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And I can track,

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as it does with these audit trails,[br]of where I've been.

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So this is your start point,[br]starting to get a grip

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of do you even know[br]which planet you're on,

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which are the nearest planets[br]and how you can start to move around,

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start to get some navigational capability[br]within that universe.

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So the first thing is you've got[br]to learn navigational potential,

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and this is designed to help you build[br]your emotional repertoire.

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So you're not just stuck[br]with twelve emotions,

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or in some people frankly:

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two!

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I feel "yuck" or "OK,"[br]the only two motions they've got.

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So you've got to build a repertoire,

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and what you discover[br]as you start to build a repertoire,

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some emotions are[br]better antidotes than others.

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So you can start to navigate around.

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The second maneuver,

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once you've started[br]to navigate around the universe,

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is really, once you get[br]to a more constructive planet,

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there's no right and wrong,[br]but is this emotion really serving you?

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When you get[br]to a more constructive planet,

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can you stay there?

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And that really requires you[br]to do a separate maneuver,

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it's called Mastery,

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where you actually take the emotion[br]which is subject to you -

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it's a subjective experience,[br]below the level of your real awareness,

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you're sort of subject to it,[br]i.e. it's got you.

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So if you've got anger,[br]if anger is going through your system,

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if you're on the planet of Anger,

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it's got you.

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You haven't got it; it's got you.

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The way to get control over it[br]is to objectify it.

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Like, "Oh, it is anger."

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So you take it out[br]as a subjective experience,

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and you objectify it.

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And if you can objectify it,[br]you can get a grip of it.

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If you can do that[br]with your positive emotions,

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then you can move yourself[br]over to the positive side of the universe

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and stay there.

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So you really don't have to feel anything[br]you do not want to feel.

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Misery is optional,[br]you don't have to feel that.

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But if you haven't got control,

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then who has?

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And the answer is usually[br]somebody outside of you.

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So I'd really encourage you,

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if you want to transform[br]your life forever -

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because, ultimately,[br]emotions will predict your health,

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they'll predict your performance,[br]your wellbeing, your sense of fulfillment,

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they'll determine your ability[br]to make effective decisions,

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emotions drive all of that,[br]your motivation and so on.

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If you don't know about them[br]and have control over them,

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it's a little bit of a lottery as life.

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So if you go away after today,[br]and ask yourself one question:

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what planet am I on?

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And what planet would I like to be on?

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And start to work to be[br]on the planet that you want to be on

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rather than wherever life has pushed you.

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Imagine a world where all of us

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could be on the planet[br]we wanted to be on,

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or navigate around[br]that kind of solar system

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or the galaxies that we[br]wanted to experience.

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Imagine a world

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where, when you go to the bar to chat up[br]that attractive person at the bar,

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you didn't need four pints[br]of Dutch courage

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before you could go there.

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Imagine you could just do that yourself.

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Imagine a world

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where you didn't need to feel anxious[br]going into an exam or a job interview,

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where you didn't need[br]to feel terrified coming on stage.

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Imagine a world where your children,[br]on the receiving end of bullying,

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didn't feel terrified or bullied.

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If you could control your emotions,[br]you can change your life completely.

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So I'd really encourage you

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to start wondering about[br]what planet you're on

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and start putting[br]yourself in the universe,

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in that part of the universe[br]where you really want to live your life.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)