(Laughter) All I wanted to do was to get better, and I didn't realize how amazing it really was until now that I'm older and I see the amazing things that he's doing.
Sometimes I get to the end of the poem, look back and go, "Oh, that's what this is all about, " and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.
The second one, which is using them as objects to think with their architectural objects, I do a series of provocations, I say, "If this happens, then that.
He pointed at three grains of rice at the bottom of my bowl, and he said, "Clean." (Laughter) I thought, "My God, you know, I go around the world telling people to stop wasting food.
You're just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you're terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, 'Oh my gosh, I'm doing it.
(Laughter) He instantly saw that I was the cause of the commotion, and for the first time in my life, I was sent to the hall, and I thought, "Oh no, I'm doomed.
There's all these things that I've done with my life that I have no recollection of unless someone brings it up, and sometimes I think, "Oh yeah, that's something that I did."
So for example, I'm going to show you a sequence, and I have to say, some of my funding comes from the military, so I'm showing this classified sequence and you cannot discuss it outside of this room. Okay?
And it takes an active parent center who is not only there, showing a presence every day, but who is part of our governance, making decisions for their kids, our kids.
But the fact of the matter is, although people back in the day used to point at the Western countries and say, "I want that, I like that, " there's now a new person in town in the form of a country, China.
And this got me thinking, God, I wish there was a way that I could change this, that could I have my voice heard by Hasbro so I could ask them and tell them what they were doing wrong and ask them to change it.
This means that as we go to sleep at night, all of us in the last 15 seconds before we drift off to sleep, our final thought should be, godammit, I'm glad that Ireland exists.
(Laughter) This happened to me in Hamburg, when this guy, we met and he said, "Hello, m-m-m-my name is Joe, " and I said, "Oh, hello, m-m-m-my name is Meg."
But I was watching these people, and I was listening to them, and they were saying, "I, I do this, I do that, " and there was a real unfamiliarity between them.
Ricardo Semler: It happens. It happened about two weeks ago with Richard Branson, with his people saying, oh, I don't want to control your holidays anymore, or Netflix does a little bit of this and that, but I don't think it's very important.
村を囲む 防御用の こんな大きな柵です」 彼らは私を見て 「ああ 首長が亡くなったんだ」
You know, this big protective fence around the village, and they sort of looked at me and go, "Yeah, chief die."
(Video) HG: See this? (Ball squeaks) See this toy? (Ball squeaks) Oh, that was cool. See? (Ball squeaks) Now this one's for you to play. You can go ahead and play.
So when the children see this, they say, "Ah! Acceleration, " remembering back four months when they did their cars sideways, and they start measuring to find out what kind of acceleration it is.
And I know that we all hearken back to the days of the Parisian salon in the Enlightenment, or to the Algonquin Round Table, and wish, "Oh, I wish I could have been a part of that, I wish I could have laughed at Dorothy Parker's jokes."
And even more so than that, as you see people, especially today, who inspire you, who are doing things where you say "Oh God, what Jeff is doing, I want to be like him."
Live Your Legend の 運動が今あるのも 「ああ これこそ自分が追い求め 違いを生み出したいと思っていたものだ」と 気付かせてくれる指針が あってのことです
And Live Your Legend and the movement we've built wouldn't exist if I didn't have this compass to identify, "Wow, this is something I want to pursue and make a difference with."
その晩 ベッドに横になって 天井を見ながら 考えていました 「ああ なんてこと したんだろう？
That night, I'm laying in bed, I'm staring at the ceiling and thinking, "Oh my god, what have I done?
Most of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying, "I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now."
We've all had that experience where you're telling someone something, and they're like, "Oh, that's really interesting, yeah, " you know you're being had.
I had this vague recollection of seeing this yellow fish with a black spot, and thought, "Damn, I should have caught one -- I think that's a new species."
So when they feel resentful, it's kind of like the way I feel resentful when this happens, and for somewhat the same reasons." That's true understanding.
A classic story, the first one which lots of people picked up, was when in March -- on March 10th in fact, soon after TED -- Paul Clarke, in the U.K. government, blogged, "Oh, I've just got some raw data. Here it is, it's about bicycle accidents."
Now, I do most of my speaking in front of an education crowd -- teachers and students, and I like this analogy: It shouldn't be a teacher at the head of the class, telling students, "Do this, do that."
Yeah. I'm here. I did it, man. 