Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Founder, Code Green Agency
Co-Facilitator, TEDxPresidio
April 2, 2011
On Collaboration
The most common thing
that people associate with Darwin
is, of course, "survival of the fittest."
What people don't realize very often is
that Darwin actually never said that.
You can read throught
everything he ever wrote
and you'll never find those words.
It's, in fact, an incorrect
paraphrase of his teachings.
What he really wrote about was
"survival of the collaborative,"
"survival of the adaptive."
And the other lesson fron nature
that I want to point out briefly is
as we think about moving into a more
collaborative, abundant society,
part of what's impeding our ability
to do that is that we're brought up
in this mindset that
it is a zero-sum game.
It is what kind of world?
It's a dog-eat-dog world.
But, if you just take a second
to look at nature,
dogs don't eat dogs, do they?
(Laughter)
So, let's take a step back
in order to take a step forward.