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4973
we do not have sugar
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4974
the american way to quote burger king is to have it your way because as starbucks says happiness is in your choices
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4975
now when the third group came in they were told that their and their markers had been chosen by their mothers
humorous
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4977
of course you and i know that coke is the better choice
humorous
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4979
and the other one was called adorable
humorous
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4980
and the only thing they had consensus on well if i could see them i would clearly be able to tell them apart
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4981
and i brought women into the laboratory and i asked them which one would you pick percent of the women accused me of playing a trick of putting the same color nail polish in both those bottles
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4985
success was just as much about pleasing key figures as it was about satisfying one's own preferences
serious
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4988
that's just one choice
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4990
and a young polish man said i don't need twenty kinds of chewing gum
serious
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4994
he was adam smith not billy connolly not sean connery though he is very smart indeed
humorous
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4996
you can play a game and try and think of one i've missed at or try and boil it down to just four but you'll lose
humorous
speaking style
4997
that really was a killer application
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4998
and we also know that most of them were or are very poor did not live for very long
serious
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4999
and this slide here is the best simplification of the great divergence story i can offer you
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5000
in fact in the average chinese was richer than the average north american
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5002
so what is this hyperbolic geometry that corals and sea slugs embody the next few minutes is we're all going to get raised up to the level of a sea slug
humorous
speaking style
5003
it's true
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5004
i feel like i'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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speaking style
5005
i can't wait to see them racing for the first time at daytona next month because i feel the need for speed
humorous
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5006
but you know even holding one balloon is like kind of happy
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5008
and recently i've been much more interested in collecting stories from reality so real stories
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5009
and in these books you can find these short little glimpses of moments and experiences and people that i meet
serious
speaking style
5010
as opposed to knowing the whole story just knowing a little bit of the story and then letting your own mind fill in the rest
serious
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5011
it's called we feel fine
serious
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5012
you'd follow that guy back to his cubicle and you'd say why my chair okay so now it's tuesday morning and you're at the office and a meeting invitation pops up in your calendar
humorous
speaking style
5013
and when this highly unproductive session is over you go back to your desk and you stand at your desk and you say boy i wish i had those two hours back like i wish i had my chair back
humorous
speaking style
5014
and in fact some of the biggest companies in the world companies that you've heard of but i won't name have asked for my permission to use this video in their new hire training to teach their new employees how not to run a meeting at their company
serious
speaking style
5015
or the maybe button or whatever button is there for you not to accept immediately
serious
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5019
then one plus two is three two plus three is five three plus five is eight and so on
serious
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5021
yeah i know
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5023
they're tasty and they make your pee smell funny
humorous
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5024
but we are the only ones using asparagus
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5026
we aren't focused on any particular problem and we're not trying to solve any particular disease
serious
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5028
and what we're left with after removing all the apple cells is this cellulose scaffold
serious
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5029
we used an apple and it cost pennies
serious
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5030
she knew just how to torture me without knowing
humorous
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5031
one day they invited all these female colleagues i don't know where they came from to where i was held and they invited me to their guard room and asked if one night stands really happen in the us
humorous
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5032
patrick's day for all of you but it was the day that turned my life upside down
serious
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5042
i have of these
humorous
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5043
now they didn't even care about that
humorous
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5044
what they wanted was my email address so they could ask me more questions
humorous
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5045
in other words i look for aliens and when i tell people that at a cocktail party they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face
serious
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5046
this is the owens valley radio observatory behind the sierra and in i was working there collecting data for my thesis
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5047
so it was true
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5051
and of course the local people had absolutely no interest in doing that so we paid them to come and work and sometimes they would show up
humorous
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5053
when the tomatoes were nice and ripe and red overnight some hippos came out from the river and they ate everything
humorous
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5055
i shut up and listen to them
humorous
speaking style
5057
they were already drowning in manure
humorous
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5058
the book was published in
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5059
but they mean two different things
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5060
the first principle of aid is respect
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5061
we meet at the pub
serious
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5062
the passion that that man has for his own personal growth is the most important thing
serious
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5063
entrepreneurs never come and they never tell you in a public meeting what they want to do with their own money what opportunity they have identified
serious
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5067
you know if god's going to show up he's not going to show up on cheese bread
humorous
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5069
i really think that there's this inner desire
serious
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5070
that patient was my government
humorous
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5072
when we started out i thought i was going to find so much corruption i was literally going to either die or get killed in the process
humorous
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5073
i like to think about these two years like a weight loss program
humorous
speaking style
5074
so when government one of its most vital entities is weak or unhealthy everyone and everything suffers
serious
speaking style
5075
economies thrive when business are able to quickly and easily set up shop
serious
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5077
we also just went back and looked at a lot of their previous paperwork to try and really understand to try and diagnose what bodily malfunctions had occurred that lead to that spot on the world bank list
serious
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5080
i think they were given to in a box a box set of which they put on their shelves where they are now
humorous
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5081
and as chris says there is a hunger for video of me
humorous
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5084
so i want to pick up from there because i only had minutes frankly
humorous
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5086
i mean there is a major climate crisis obviously and i think if people don't believe it they should get out more
humorous
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5087
i have one climate crisis i don't really need the second one
humorous
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5088
he said there are two types of people in this world those who divide the world into two types and those who do not
humorous
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5090
i came across a great quote recently from abraham lincoln who i thought you'd be pleased to have quoted at this point
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5091
we don't teach american history in britain
humorous
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5092
you know this is our policy
humorous
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5093
if you said don't do this anymore they'd wonder what you're talking about
serious
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5094
and high among them is education because education in a way very many people from their natural talents
serious
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5095
what we need and the word's been used many times in the past few days is not evolution but a revolution in education
serious
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5096
as our case is new so we must think anew and act anew
serious
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5098
but you know we have become obsessed with this linear narrative
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5100
one is fast food where everything is standardized
serious
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5101
my wife's just finished writing a novel and i think it's a great book but she disappears for hours on end
serious
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5102
we have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process it's an organic process
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5103
and doing that i think is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions but with external support based on a personalized curriculum
serious
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5104
there's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of these few days
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5105
and we should tread softly
serious
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5106
now this was all very good except for the problem that it didn't quite work
humorous
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5107
it's been a good run
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5110
i've got to warn you the sense in which my is upbeat has always been kind of subtle sometimes even elusive
humorous
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5113
so let's call it the death spiral of negativity
humorous
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5114
that is to say thank you thank you
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5116
i'm just doing what i can here
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5118
now the good news is that the person who said it was ann coulter
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5120
and in fact that's actually sustaining a long standing trend that predates human beings ok that biological evolution was doing for us
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5121
originally you had the most complex societies the hunter gatherer village
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5122
this is the silk road connecting the chinese empire and the roman empire
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5124
social structure adapts to accommodate this possibility and to harness this productive potential so you get cities you know and you get all the non games you don't think about that are being played across the world
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5128
i think the non dynamic which is not only economic by any means it's not always commerce but it has driven us to the verge of a moral truth which is the fundamental equality of everyone
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5130
more and more it's possible for grassroots hatred abroad to manifest itself in the form of organized violence on american soil
serious
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5131
i've got to admit i feel silly saying that
serious
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5132
the average age of a gamer is years old not eight years old and in fact if we look at the projected demographics of video game play the video game players of tomorrow are older adults
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5134
so most of you have a brain
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5135
if you move your eyes you're doomed
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