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and we won this world cup in
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we cut customs duties we reduced import duties and we got all the multinationals coming in with multinational budgets who looked at per capita income and got very excited about the possibilities in india and were looking for a vehicle to reach every indian
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for a long time television said we won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it
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the other was indian cricket
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it was never promoted it was never sold it was organized
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and all of a sudden indian sport had awakened to the reality that you can source the best product for the best price anywhere in the world
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there is cricket and the movies
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i her
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now in this discussion today i'm going to focus on a different aspect of
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so i quit my company and started a career as a professional performer
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i'll never do it again
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in the third condition the experimenter got the sheet of paper and put it directly into a shredder
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and ikea is a store with kind of okay furniture that takes a long time to assemble
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but when i finish it i seem to like those ikea pieces of furniture more than i like other ones
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now everything was fine
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why because now the builders loved it even more
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because in reality it was even uglier than the first version
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most people would say for a lot a lot of money
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they were just like your kids and you played with them for a few hours and when you were about to leave the parents said hey by the way just before you leave if you're interested they're for sale
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by the way if you think ikea instructions are not good what about the instructions that come with kids those are really tough
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it suggests that there's all kinds of other things that motivate us to work or behave in all kinds of ways
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and the day before it was due he sent his presentation to his boss and his boss wrote him back and said nice presentation but the merger is canceled
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this was what we called the meaningful condition
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and if you remember the story about was punished by the gods to push the same rock up a hill and when he almost got to the end the rock would roll over and he would have to start again
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now we had another version of this experiment
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and you would speculate that the people who love would build more even for less money because after all they get more internal joy from it
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soon after i finished running this experiment i went to talk to a big software company in seattle
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they said the could have asked them to present to the whole company about their journey over the last two years and what they decided to do
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but if you understood how important meaning is then you would figure out that it's actually important to spend some time energy and effort in getting people to care more about what they're doing
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okay
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now then
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and great insight really was to think here's a child who can't see
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but out of all the bashing after a few months emerged the most fantastic music and i think there was just a miracle moment really derek when you realized that all the sounds you hear in the world out there is something that you can copy on the keyboard
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so remember these are primitive things so dancing that's very interesting to us
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right
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these are very dirty little as a matter of fact
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it's very simplistic
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now this is necessary to distinguish the self from the environment
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my career would probably last about five years
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now my career may last a little longer
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snow
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well then stop clapping
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rain
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and of course i returned with all sorts of bruises
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because you know when you look at a piece of music for example if i just open my little motorbike bag we have here hopefully a piece of music that is full of little black dots on the page
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i'm being told where to play on the drum
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in the same way i look at the music i get a basic idea i wonder what technically might be hard or you know what i want to do
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and you feel really quite believe it or not detached from the instrument and from the stick even though i'm actually holding the stick quite tightly
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so in the same way that i need time with this instrument i need time with people in order to interpret them
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same amount of weight but different sound colors
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which leads us to a question what was he thinking when he was being measured perhaps something very naughty
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what a company
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compassion is something that creates happiness
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this is the kind of sequence that i love looking at day and night
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that's just the best
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on the bottom here this is the geologic and the numbers on it indicate millions of years from the present so the zero here that would be today
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inside each spider there are hundreds of silk glands sometimes thousands
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it's totally appropriate for a four
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so we took a room downstairs in the basement that had been used as sort of an abu annex
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whatever
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there's a whole gray market for lego thousands of home based businesses
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so this thing right here is freaking me out
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so i just figured that out earlier
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by this point i was definitely not going to be an employee
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and say these are good ones
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when i was in grade two i won a citywide speaking competition but nobody had ever said hey this kid's a good speaker
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entrepreneurs are people we have a lot of them in this room who have ideas and passions or see these needs in the world and decide to stand up and do it
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teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime
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both my grandfathers and my dad were entrepreneurs
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we want a temporary use permit for the clock eventually temporary use permit
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in fact danny hillis can estimate altitude by how much math he can't do in his head
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how about crevice no
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it would be helpful if humanity got into the habit of thinking of the now not just as next week or next quarter but you know next years and the last years basically story so far
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it's the first working prototype of the clock
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that's what happens to buildings
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we looked at in new mexico
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oh stop clapping
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and then they hopped in it turned the little electronic key rather than the real key zipped home on their new superhighway and drove straight into a garage that looks like a tudor castle
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but i really appreciate being here
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they've chosen a project by daniel the enfant terrible of the moment of architecture
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but that's what we're going to do
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i'm just pro arithmetic
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so if you were in palm springs
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for
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whoa
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and among those was liking a page for curly fries
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the secret to productivity in so many fields and in is letting dead people do your work for you
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we take an idea combine it with a square and you get an figure
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and it's so simple
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it runs on all the major platforms even windows
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well then you could do an organ
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what is most people think they know what is
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this is a plate from
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but even more importantly he created a language a way we could communicate a code of dots dashes and arrows
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they have to obey four simple laws
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if you look at the angles around the fold you find that if you number the angles in a circle all the even numbered angles add up to a straight line all the odd numbered angles add up to a straight line
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and it would get exhausted and it would collapse every time
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and as i grew up it became worse and worse and i started to think of it as a form of control
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it's a self portrait titled wide hips
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in fact after college i applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven
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