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Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Founder, Code Green Agency

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Co-Facilitator, TEDxPresidio
April 2, 2011

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On Collaboration

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The most common thing 
that people associate with Darwin

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is, of course, "survival of the fittest."

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What people don't realize very often is 
that Darwin actually never said that.

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You can read throught 
everything he ever wrote

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and you'll never find those words.

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It's, in fact, an incorrect 
paraphrase of his teachings.

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What he really wrote about was 
"survival of the collaborative,"

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"survival of the adaptive."

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And the other lesson fron nature 
that I want to point out briefly is

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as we think about moving into a more 
collaborative, abundant society,

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part of what's impeding our ability 
to do that is that we're brought up

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in this mindset that 
it is a zero-sum game.

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It is what kind of world?
It's a dog-eat-dog world.

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But, if you just take a second 
to look at nature,

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dogs don't eat dogs, do they?

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(Laughter)

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So, let's take a step back 
in order to take a step forward.