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.