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.