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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.05,0:00:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a world\Nawash with information,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.16,0:00:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we seem to face\Na growing scarcity of wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.54,0:00:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what is worth we confuse the two.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.78,0:00:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe that have access\Nto more information
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.39,0:00:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,produces more knowledge\Nwhich results in more wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.60,0:00:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if anything the opposite is true.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.14,0:00:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more information
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.47,0:00:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the proper context and interpretation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.86,0:00:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only more are understanding from the world\Nrather than enriching it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.62,0:00:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This barrage of readily available information
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.28,0:00:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has created an environment\Nwhere one of the worst social sins
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.39,0:00:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to appear uninformed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.20,0:00:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ours is a culture where \Nit is enormously embarrassing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.66,0:00:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to have an opinion on something
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.82,0:00:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in order to seem informed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.80,0:00:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we form our so called opinions hastily
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.46,0:00:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on fragmentary bits of information\Nand superficial impressions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.24,0:01:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than true understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.32,0:01:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge, Emerson wrote, is the knowing\Nthat we can not know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.03,0:01:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To grasp the importance of this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.42,0:01:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we first need to define these concepts \Nas a ladder of understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.52,0:01:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At its base,\Nthere is a piece of information
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.90,0:01:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which simply tells us\Nbasis fact about the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.49,0:01:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Above that is knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.11,0:01:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the understanding of how different\Nbits of information fit together
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.84,0:01:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reveal some truth about the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.96,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowledge hinges on an active\Ncorrelation and interpretation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.66,0:01:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the top is Wisdom
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.97,0:01:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has a moral components.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.90,0:01:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the application of information\Nworth remembering
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.46,0:01:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and knowledge that matters
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.48,0:01:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understanding not only\Nhow the world works
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.25,0:01:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also how it should work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.65,0:01:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that requires a moral framework\Nof what should and should not matter
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.15,0:01:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As well as an ideal of the world\Nwhich is highest potentiality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.77,0:01:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why the storytellers are the more\Nurgently valuable today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.57,0:02:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great storyteller whether a journalist\Nor editor or film maker or creator
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.99,0:02:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,help people figure out not only\Nwhat matters in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.91,0:02:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also WHY it matters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.75,0:02:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great storyteller dances up\Nthe ladder of understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.18,0:02:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from information
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.17,0:02:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.11,0:02:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.20,0:02:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through symbol, metaphor\Nand association,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.30,0:02:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,storyteller helps interpreting information
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.45,0:02:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,integrated with our existing knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.29,0:02:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and transmute that into wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.10,0:02:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susan Sontag has once said that\Nreading set standards.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.18,0:02:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Storytelling not only sets standards
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.78,0:02:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but adds its best makes one to live up\Nto them to transcend them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.93,0:02:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great story then is not about\Nproviding information,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.72,0:02:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though it can certainly inform.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.93,0:02:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great story invites\Nan expansion of understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.79,0:02:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a self transcendence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.86,0:02:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than that, it plants to seed for it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.98,0:02:57.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and makes it impossible to do anything\Nbut growing your understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.99,0:02:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world, of place in it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.100,0:03:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of ourselves, of some subtle \Nor monumental aspect of existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.60,0:03:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a time when information\Nis increasingly cheap
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.21,0:03:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wisdom increasingly expensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.40,0:03:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the gap is where modern \Nstorytellers value lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.35,0:03:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of it this way..
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.51,0:03:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Information is having a library of books\Nand ship building
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.21,0:03:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowledge applies that to building a ship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.62,0:03:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Access to the information...to the books
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.32,0:03:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a perquisite for the knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.07,0:03:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not a guarantee of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.54,0:03:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you build your ship,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.42,0:03:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wisdom is what allow you to sail it\Nwithout sinking
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.96,0:03:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protect it from the storm\Nthat groups up from the horizon
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.78,0:03:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the dead of the night
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.10,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to point just so that the wind\Nbreathes life into its sails.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.53,0:03:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moral wisdom helps to\Ntell the difference between the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.54,0:03:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right direction and the wrong direction\Nin steering the ship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.17,0:03:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A great storyteller is the kindly captain
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.92,0:04:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sails her ship with tremendous\Nwisdom and boundless courage
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.65,0:04:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who points its nose in the direction\Nof horizons and world chosen
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.83,0:04:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with unflinching idealism and integrity
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.84,0:04:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who brings a somewhat closer to the answer
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.92,0:04:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our particular answer\Nto that grand question
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.30,0:04:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By Dina Mohamed