December 22, 2023 • 44 mins
Caught in the whirlwind of work, I was once asked, "What do you want for Christmas?" This seemingly simple question unraveled a tapestry of thoughts on presence and cherishing the fleeting moments of our lives. Today's episode weaves a narrative exploring the art of truly living in the now. As I recount a personal journey, our conversation travels through the rich landscapes of solitude and companionship, where solitude paints a canvas for creativity and companionship dances to the rhythm of shared ideas. With a team of founders, we contemplate the audacious potential of human presence as a tangible asset, a frontier that could redefine the essence of innovation.
The heart beats to the rhythm of connection and collaboration, and in this episode, we examine the profound impact of truly embracing these moments. Solitude, often a sanctuary for the mind's expansion, is juxtaposed with the vibrant energy of engaging conversations that bubble in the company of others. Tackling the notion of mental bandwidth, we recognize the myriad personal responsibilities that can cloud our ability to immerse ourselves fully in life's symphony. Yet, when we address these issues head-on, we discover the sweet spot where creativity can flourish. The dynamic interplay of ideas when three people unite sparks a discussion on the very fabric of creation, from the inception of a thought to its manifestation within the bounds of reality.
Our narrative culminates in a celebration of community, music, and shared experiences that stitch the quilt of our society. We touch upon the complexities of modern life that may deter us from savoring the present and delve into the concept of innovation sovereignty. Here, we imagine a world where communities band together to overcome life's hurdles, reimagining the pathways to a better quality of life. This episode isn't just about stories; it's an invitation to join a collective mission, a 'tribe' that supports and empowers each other, shaping an environment where innovation thrives and life is cherished. As we near the holiday season, let this be a reminder to create moments with loved ones that echo with joy and connection long after they've passed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, so this one's about the nature of presence.
So I was inspired to do thisone today because of a question
my mother asked me and that waswhat do you want for Christmas?
And I remember at the timebeing so engrossed in what I was
doing at work and so fixed andfocused on Delivering something,
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you know, accomplishing amission, that the question in
and of itself, when I consideredstopping what I was doing to
then think about what it is Iwant for Christmas, the
disruption in that, to investmyself into that even that
question Felt like a real choreand a real Just, really
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disruptive To what I was doing.
And that's not to say that Ididn't want to contemplate it,
but in that moment it was.
I didn't have the bandwidth,and so there you have a moment
whereby my mother's evokingsomething out of me to full
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consideration that requires aninvestment of my time, my energy
, my presence, intointrospection, and so it got me
thinking about presence a lot,and I'm working with a
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phenomenal team of founders whoare Looking at turning present,
the presence of a human being,into a tokenized asset, a
tokenized real-world asset, andwe're looking at ways we can
support them and potentiallyHelp them to incubate their
startup, and so it's timely thatI've that.
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I share my perspective onpresence, because I think it's
fundamentally one of the mostprecious Commodities that there
is, and, in fact, I'd even go asfar as to say it's the only
real thing that matters in life.
It's the only thing thatmatters in life is being here
now.
So in that context you know onthe assumption that what I'm
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saying is Is true for not justmyself, but most of us what does
that actually mean in terms oflife?
If our presence is the onlything that matters in that
moment, why are we living ourlives the way that we are right
now?
Because it's fundamentallyflawed In context of our
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presence and the only thing thatreally matters being is to be
here now, then surely the mostprecious thing to us as human
beings are moments.
So if a moment is the onlything that's truly precious To a
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human being In terms of theirquality of life, then it's.
You expand upon that and yousay, well, it's a human being.
You expand upon that and yousay, well, it's moments that we
cherish.
So then you say, okay.
So if moments that we cherish,if that is the key to living a
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fulfilling and meaningful life.
What are the obstacles andbarriers preventing me from
Creating moments that I cherish?
And so you see, this unfoldmentof Fundamental understanding of
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what really matters in life tous as human beings, that the
true essence of what quality oflife actually means is that
we're creating moments that wecan cherish.
And so when my mother asked methat question, what do you want
for Christmas and I saw that asa disruption from what I was
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doing I had to say to myself Iswhat I'm doing now disrupting me
from a moment I could cherishwith my mother?
It is what I'm doing,disrupting me from other
potential moments that I couldbe cherishing.
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And so the unraveling began.
So it's like, okay, let'screate my life around this
hypothesis that this is reallythe essence of life and what it
means to be alive.
And so you begin the grandunraveling and you say, well,
what is a cherished moment?
What is it about each momentthat means that it is cherished,
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and what would have to be truein order for a moment to be
cherished?
So you then it just hits you inthe face.
It's like it's the people thatI'm with.
It's a shared experience withpeople with, I mean, the most
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diverse thing I've ever comeacross in my life is the
variation in people, thedifferences, the uniqueness of a
human being.
So, as an isolated human being,when you're sitting with
yourself and contemplating, it'swholly familiar, other than a
thought which could arise whichcould be wholly unique.
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And so I cherish those momentswith myself where I can let my
mind soar without constraints,in the real world of
entrepreneurship.
My nature is that my mind is, itsoars, it goes to the absolute
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apex of what's possible, andthat's very, very useful when
people are feel constrainedwhere they're at now, and I can
blow the glass ceiling off sothat their conception of what's
possible expands.
However, life is about.
Life is about the space inbetween the possible and the
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impossible, and you wantbandwidth between those things,
you want headroom.
So for me, what I a moment thatI cherish on my own, is to let
my mind soar, to contemplatewhat's possible, understanding
that I don't.
My life doesn't have to be areflection of what's possible.
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I want my life to be a fluid,the fluid result of the space in
between the possible and theimpossible.
So life is the space in between.
You have headroom betweenwhat's possible and what's
impossible, and to me that's agraceful life, and so I want
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that solitude.
I want that time to myself.
That's a moment that I cherish,moments to myself, where I can
allow my mind to soar withoutconstraint, without having to
make it possible in the realworld.
I want to go out and imaginewhat human AI symbiosis would
look like, what fusedconsciousness might be, might
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look like, what spliced DNAmight look like.
Just because it's fun, justbecause it's fun, it's not
because I'm because that's whatI want to do.
I just want to conceive ofwhat's possible so that, because
until you do that, you can'treconcile what's desirable
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within that.
So, if that's possible, what isdesirable within that?
And in fact, more often than not, when I allow my mind to soar
in that way, I become more andmore aware of what I cherish
about here and now and what'salready in front of me in the
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life that I have now, and Irealized that I don't want to
fuse with AI, I don't want tosplice my DNA with something
else, because there are so manymoments that I've yet to cherish
about what I have now, where Iam now and I'm potential to be
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unlocked inside the human body,that I have right now to explore
with the people and theuniqueness of the people that
are here and now.
And so when you explore what'spossible with what's here now,
it's infinite, without having togo off into the realms of the
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infinite, and so okay.
But so that's one component ofmy ideal life moments to myself
alone where I can allow my mindto soar, those are cherished
moments for me.
So what has to be true in thatregard?
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For me to have a moment tomyself where I can allow my mind
to soar, means I have to haveno distractions around me, so I
switch my phone off.
Means I have to be in a placeof solitude where there are no
unexpected distractions, whereit feels peaceful to me, where I
can be wholly present withmyself in that moment.
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But then, if you, there's asubtle component to this which
is essential and this is athread that runs through all
cherished moments is that therehas to be nothing else occupying
bandwidth inside my mind If Iwant to allow my mind to soar.
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I can't be thinking about mybills, my health, my emotional
state, the health of my family,the health of my friends, the
wars going on in the world.
All those things are trying tooccupy bandwidth within my mind.
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So, as long as the subtle humof those things is going on,
when my intention is to whollydevote my presence to allowing
my mind to soar, then I'mencumbered by other aspects of
my life that are occupyingbandwidth.
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So, in that scenario, what youcan see is a blueprint for how
to live life and how every humanbeing can live their life, and
this is why it's sofundamentally important to
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honour and respect the validityof every single human being's
perspective, no matter howdistorted it may be to someone
else, because the nature ofwhat's occupying space in your
mind is indifferent to what thetruth means.
If you're worried about toxicalgal bloom, if you're worried
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about cats destroying nativebirds, if you're worried about
fungus on your toenail, ifyou're worried about the fact
that you broke a nail, if you'reworried about that, you got the
wrong colour lipstick and itdoesn't match your outfit, all
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that matters is what's occupyingbandwidth and space in your
mind, and this is where, ashuman beings, we compare
ourselves to other people and wesay oh well, you know the
suffering that's going on inanother country because of war.
We invalidate our own.
And it's not that it'ssuffering.
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I'm just talking about theobstacles and barriers to being
wholly present, to cherish amoment.
And so here we have a blueprintfor life.
It's about understanding whatis occupying bandwidth in our
mind Work, projects at work, ourhealth, our mental state of
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being, medication, guilt,emotions, and so if we really
want moments to cherish in ourlife, we have to devote
ourselves to the unraveling ofthese things, to we free up the
bandwidth in our mind in orderto create the space to be here
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now, unencumbered with maximumbandwidth, to just be here and
wholly present and to let go andthat's a magical feeling being
in that flow.
We've all felt it when we'renot really thinking because our
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mind's empty.
It's like a blank canvas andit's like our nature arises and
expresses itself through us ontothat canvas.
And so here you see a blueprintand a template for presence
unfolding.
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So, okay, what are other momentsthat I cherish?
So I know that I cherishmoments by myself, allowing my
mind to soar with maximumbandwidth available space in my
mind.
So what else?
Well, being with another personthat I, who I cherish.
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So spending quality time withanother unique human being that
I gravitate towards and wherethe conversation flows and our
minds can soar together.
I love that.
I love that, especially in asetting, you know, like an
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outdoor bar, with a bit ofhustle and bustle, vibrant
people around us and nice hum,trying a drink that I've never
tried before sun's shining.
I cherish those moments, Icherish the conversation, I
cherish the uniqueness of wherethat conversation goes and
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what's possible because of thecollaboration.
It always happens in anunexpected way, the nature of
the back and forth and thebouncing of ideas in a
collaborative way, where you'reexploring the potential of
what's possible together, oryou're just actually just
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bouncing off each other inunexpected ways for no reason.
It's almost like curiosity morethan anything else, and being
wholly present in those momentsis a wonderful thing.
And so, okay, that's anothermoment that I cherish.
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So then you apply the samething.
So how can I be fully presentin that moment?
Well, what's occupying bandwidthin my mind?
Health, it comes back to thesame fundamental things.
I'm worried about my grandma,or whether there's bills to pay
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or it's the bandwidth is thesame.
The things encroaching into myspace, creating obstacles and
barriers preventing me frombeing present, are the focus in
my life.
They're the path, the aspectsof my life that I want to devote
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myself to so that they becomeautonomous so that I can create
headroom.
See, I'm notice, I'm talkingabout bandwidth and headroom,
and this is the key.
Anything that's occupyingbandwidth is limiting your
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headroom.
The more headroom you have, themore things flow, the more of a
state of grace that you're in.
So if my health is occupyingbandwidth, how can I create
headroom so that that flows inmy life and so it begins the
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great unfoldment?
Why am I concerned about myhealth?
I don't know.
So, okay, you begin with acheckup, you do the checkup and
you may free your mind straightaway.
Oh, I've got perfect health.
Or it may be that you've gotpain in your body, or it may be
that your mobility is not great.
It may be that you just don'tfeel good in your body.
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You know it may be comfortablewith your physical appearance,
which is totally okay.
That could be an emotionalissue, it could be a mental
issue, it could be traumarelated, but you see, it's not
until we actually unravel thething and we give that its own
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space and we create bandwidthfor that thing.
Sorry, we create headroom forthat thing so that eventually it
becomes autonomous and itdoesn't occupy space in your
mind.
It becomes autonomous and itbecomes unconscious and
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therefore it's not pulling usaway from each moment, it's not
nagging on us, at us to give itheadroom, so we can cherish each
moment more and more together.
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So imagine a.
So.
So I cherish moments by myself.
I cherish moments with otherswhere our minds can sort
together.
Where else do I cherish?
I cherish moments when thereare three of us and where we're
kind of there are two oppositesand there's someone who's kind
of like a, like a transformer inbetween.
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And what I notice about when I'min a space with three people in
that dynamic is we can actuallycreate stuff.
So if you think about when I'malone, my mind soars.
What's possible?
There's no creation in that,it's just imagination.
If you imagine with two people,our minds are soaring together.
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You know, I imagine I imaginelike DNA twisted together, just
soaring and just going as far aswe can.
And then I imagine therevelations that we have along
the way that were unexpected andthat expand our awareness of
what's possible.
Maybe they reveal deeperdesires that were unaware that
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we knew we had.
It illuminates things.
Then you bring three people inand specifically especially when
there's a really superb dynamicwhere you've got and I call
this trinity, where you have,which is binary and infinity, so
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a one and a zero, so everything, so off and on, or everything
and nothing, and then the spacein between are varying degrees
of the same thing.
Some people some of you arelistening to this are used to
like the diamond or the doublediamond design design method
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where you're creating, you'retalking about what's possible
tempered by what's impossible,and then you're constraining
possibilities until you land onwhat you actually want to create
.
It's kind of similar to thatdynamic, so three people in the
same space, wholly present witheach other, but in that scenario
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you're into creative energywhereby by the end of that
session, you could land on aconcept that has a beginning and
an end.
And so you can see a theme here.
The theme for me is for my life, I need the full gamut of
creation and I want to beincluded and involved in all of
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those phases.
I want to be on my own,allowing my mind to soar.
I want to be with another mindwho enables my mind to soar, and
new and unique in differentways, and then I want three of
us together to create a viableconcept with a beginning and an
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end, where the zenith of what Ibelieve is possible and the
absolute, the reverse zenith ofwhat's impossible.
I don't know what you call thatno-transcript.
I create temperance for eachone, but there's a concept
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occupying the space in between.
The fact is, in what's possibleand what's impossible, to create
something in the here and nowthat will fluidly be able to be
stood up now to create somethingnow, now it could be something
to create in the future.
It depends on what yourpipeline's like, and this is
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what it means to be in the flow.
What can we do here and now,understanding what's possible
and understanding what'simpossible, so that we can
perpetually and continuallycreate and progress.
So I cherish all of thosemoments.
I love all that stuff.
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So what else do I cherish?
Well, I cherish being in anenvironment where we're
celebrating together and myfavorite is the accomplishment
of a shared mission, and thatcould take on any shape or form.
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It's chaotic in nature.
You're just there, being witheach other, reflecting on an
accomplished mission.
Now, each of us could have had adifferent role in that.
It's not about that.
We've ticked off a bunch oftasks and, oh yeah, I've
completed this task and this isthe next.
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I did 11 tasks today and that'sgreat.
Those are the things that arefor ourselves, to make us feel
as though those are theconstraint the self-imposed
constraints we put on ourselves,that make us feel good in
ourselves.
So that's part of it, butthat's a self-responsible thing.
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I know that because I tickedthese things off my list today.
The self-imposed constraints Iput on my own time and energy
today means that they're notoccupying space in my mind,
means that we're aligned to themission and we're going to
accomplish the mission.
Here's the I'm on track.
It means that the part I'mplaying and accomplishing a
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shared mission, I feel goodabout my contribution.
You see, it's not about peoplegoing, oh you did so much work
today.
That's nonsense.
That just doesn't work.
That doesn't work.
The self-imposed constraintsare our responsibility as human
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beings.
They're what make us feel goodabout ourselves and give us
respect in ourselves and trustin ourselves.
We trust ourselves that ourself-imposed constraints are the
standards we set for ourselves.
So back to the scenario of acherished moment, a shared
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mission that's been accomplished.
We're all celebrating togetherbecause together we were able to
achieve whatever it was.
We did it, we did it, and so weshare in the success together.
My preference is we share inthe spoils as well, and it's
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kind of like the old tribalmentality.
If it's in a business sense, ifthe tribe goes hunting and they
shoot a deer, then you feedeveryone, because if everyone's
fed, then the bandwidth andeveryone's mind is free.
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You're not worried aboutwhether the tribe's hungry,
you're not worried about peoplesurviving.
You feed them with what youhave so that you can continue to
create moments that you cancherish.
That's what the quality of ourlife is about, and you celebrate
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each other, you appreciate eachother.
You realise in those momentsthat you accomplished the
mission because of theuniqueness of one another, not
because of a list of tasks thatwere completed, and you weigh
them up and say, oh, this onedid more work than that one or
whatever it may be.
Lots of people's uniqueness isbased upon the gravity they can
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create around a situation, thepeople they can pull into a room
, the credibility of theirreputation, the diversity of
their networks, the mana oftheir word.
When they speak someone, peoplelisten, their mentorship, their
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shared experiences.
It's all just this grand.
It's kind of like a tapestry.
We weave together All of thatuniqueness, we encapsulate it
and we utilise it to accomplisha shared mission.
And because of thecollaboration and because it's
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we create a space for eachindividual to show up wholly as
an individual rather than as anaccountant or as a web developer
.
You're a unique human being.
You can bring your whole selfto accomplishing a mission.
Just because you're anaccountant doesn't mean you
can't pick up the phone and talkto someone about sales or it's
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about.
When you have that freedom tobe a human being and to bring
the richness of who you are tothe potential of that scenario,
then those moments are whollycherished.
Once you accomplish the missionand for me, I like to go to the
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pub and I'm cheering each other, high-fiving pats on the back,
sharing stories, war storiesCan't believe we did that, oh
you know contemplating whatcomes next and all the new
challenges that come because ofthe success, because of what's
made possible, because of whathappened.
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So I cherish those moments andso, underpinning this, it's the
same things.
How can I go into that spaceand cherish that moment?
I have to be able to rememberit.
If I'm not present, then Iwon't remember the moment,
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because my mind will have beenbased on the future, based on
the health of my cat, based onthat my garden's not growing
properly based on whatever it is, whatever it is, but it's on us
to devote the time, the energyand the effort into creating the
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headroom for everything so thatit doesn't occupy space in our
minds preventing us from beingwholly present in each moment,
so that we have memories that wecan cherish, so we can remember
being in the moment, and so youcan see the theme here, the
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other moments that I cherish.
I love music.
Most of my friends are, all youknow.
We have a DJing backgroundsemi-professional DJing, if not
professional DJing.
You probably couldn't make agreat living out of it, but most
of us have DJed at massivefestivals and kind of regularly
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DJed in the weekends andnightclubs and things like that.
So what we love now is we loveevents around a birthday party
where we come together, gettogether, we all jam, drink
quite a lot, if I'm honest, havea barbecue, the kids are
playing in the pool and thesebig mash-up events with music
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and sunshine and cider and thesun, and that's a whole other
dynamic.
That's even more chaos.
You're celebrating each other.
You're celebrating the life ofanother human being, reflecting
on the past, telling stories,thinking about the future.
It could be anything.
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You're open to the totallyunexpected.
And I find in those moments thereally unexpected can happen.
And when you're whole, you'represent in those moments, those
are moments that you know kindof come out and that will stick
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with you, that you kind ofreally never forget.
And here we have the quality ofour life.
This is really what quality oflife is the ability to be holy,
present at the moment.
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So if you let's just base, makethe assumption that we can all
agree on that, yeah, that soundsawesome, yeah, it sounds
amazing.
Well, how is civilization, theway that it's structured now, an
impediment to this?
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And it really is an impediment.
It is an impediment Becausethere's, we don't have enough
autonomy, we don't, we haven'tdecided as a civilization to say
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that this is our shared intent,this is our unified intent of
purpose, this is how we, this iswhat we're going to devote
innovation to.
This is, you know, if you bringthis into the context of
innovation as an example, andyou've got a tribe, let's say
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you've got a community, andlet's call that your tribe.
They're the people that youwork with on the shared missions
and and all the rest of it, oncommercial ventures or some kind
of business venture.
Well then you look at eachindividual and you understand
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together what is the bandwidth,what's occupying space in their
mind that's preventing them frombeing holy present.
And for one person, that's themortgage.
For one person it's the healthof their daughter.
For one person it's, you know,the grandmother's going blind.
For one person, it's chronicpain in their body.
For another person, their dog'sgot a sore leg.
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For another person, broken nail.
So we don't invalidate thesethings, we encapsulate, because
what the things that areoccupying space in your mind are
indifferent to the degrees ofperceived levels of suffering or
whatever it may be.
All that matters is what'soccupying the space.
And so when you can cometogether as a tribe and say,
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okay, these are all the thingsthat are impeding the quality of
your life, that are preventingcherished moments from being
cherished, where you canactually share, you know, in
this scenario you couldaccomplish a shared mission, but
you are unable to cherish themoment because your mind was
occupied thinking about thehealth of your grandmother.
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So you end up, you don'tcherish the moment and therefore
you don't.
The quality of your life isimpeded.
So in that scenario, youactually become a tribe and you
actually say, well, I'm reallyworried about my grandmother.
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So, in the context of innovation, we look at what's the
challenge with your grandmothershe's going blind.
Why is she going blind?
Been to the doctors, they don'tknow what's going on.
Or there's a two year waitinglist for an operation, whatever
it may be.
Now, the two year operation,it's an impediment to the
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quality of our lives, it's notworking, it's not good enough,
but we have to accept thesethings.
So, in context of innovation,you always start small, you
perfect a small thing and youproliferate the small thing.
And you probably already knowwe're into big time, into
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decentralization and cooperativecollaboration.
So it's not about deferringyour authority to the
centralized thing.
It's about the tribe comingtogether to say how can we, how
can we accelerate this?
How can we fund innovation tocreate something new?
How can we find have we gotscientists around us who are
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working on things like this infields of AI and blindness, and
you know?
How can we amplify those things?
How can we provide funding toaccelerate this?
How can we recalculate the riskand set a new standard for
regulation that supersedes whatexists right now that the
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government is stating, how canwe come up with a way of doing a
clinical trial that's evensafer than the way it is now,
but a thousand times faster.
And how can we create astandard for measuring the
vulnerability of our grandmotherin terms of her having full
disclosure on the risk and theperceived reward?
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You see, this is whatsovereignty means.
It means that if something'soccupying bandwidth in your mind
and affecting the quality ofyour life, you get to decide how
much risk you take.
Only you know how painful it is.
Only you know what it wouldmean to be liberated from that.
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Only you know the impact on thequality of your life If the
innovation were to be successfuland if the full disclosure
happens, if the safe space iscreated by your entire tribe who
love you, they're not gonna.
They will not put you at risk,at undue risk.
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However, they will honor yourfree will choice.
I speak to many people who are IDon't like using the word
disabled because I don't seethem as disabled.
I see them as profoundly gifted.
But they have challenges intheir life and the quality of
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their life is so impeded byWhether it's emotional or
Physical or mental the, theamount of risk they are prepared
to take to escape thatsituation.
It's heartbreaking.
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It's heartbreaking Because thedegree of suffering that they're
experiencing on a day-to-daybasis Is so intense that they're
prepared to take the risk.
It's worth it, you see.
So sovereignty means that if youare prepared to take that risk,
then it's about your tribecoming around you to say okay,
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we know that this is reallyimportant to you.
You're prepared to put yourlife on the line.
There's a 50-50 chance that youwon't survive the operation.
As an example, how can we movethat?
How can we come together reallyquickly to accelerate it, that
to move that 50% to 25?
And if we can get it 25, can wemove it to 10?
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You see, this is whatmission-led innovation means.
We accomplish shared missiontogether.
It's like we love you too much.
50, 50, 50 is not good enough.
How can we innovate to get thatto 1% chance of failure?
Or maybe we get to 10?
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You see, so that this is, thisis how we redesign and reform
civilization.
We, we, we restructure it sothat the driving force and the
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power behind everything that wedo is driven by our love for
each other.
You see, because the reasonthings occupying space in your
mind, the reason you're worriedabout the health of your tribe
or of your grandmother, or thedeterioration of people is
because of love, because they'reat risk.
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You, because you're concernedabout their quality of life.
You're, you're concerned thatthey're suffering.
This is occupying the space inyour mind.
If you can't pay the bills,it's because of love, because
the people that need a roof overtheir head and food in their
bellies are at risk.
It's love.
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The reason you're concernedabout your sister.
He's considering an operationwith a 50 50% of that.
It won't work.
It's because of love, because ofthe moments yet to be cherished
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that would be lost.
And the grief is Because of theunrealized potential moments we
could have had, cherishing.
We could have cherished withthat person if we were able to
be wholly present, together Tocreate moments, together to
cherish.
You see, this is how we reformcivilization, this is how we
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restructure it In a tribal way,but harnessing the potential of
innovation, capturing theuniqueness of everybody around
us, sharing with the rest of ourtribe what's occupying Time and
space in our minds, and comingtogether to encourage each other
To accomplish the intimate, theincremental, to achieve the
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shared mission together.
You know, if it's mobility forsomeone, you know we, we share
the accomplishment of.
They were able to walk 50 stepstoday.
They only did 10 stepsyesterday.
That 100 steps, 100 steps.
On the weekend they did akilometer.
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They've done five kilometers.
They're jogging now.
You see, we lift each other upTo accomplish a shared mission
so that, in an autonomous way,we create the headroom around
the challenges and the sufferingthat's occupying time and space
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in our minds, that liberates usto be wholly present with each
other in each moment, so that wecan cherish each other and
create moments to cherish.
And this, this is what makesliving and, in the quality of
our life, becomes the incentiveto prolong it, to cherish life
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itself.
We want to invest in creatingheadroom Around aspects of our
life where there's no bandwidthand we help each other to create
that headroom, so that webecome autonomous and
Deliberated and free to just behere now, in each moment,
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cherishing each other's presence.
You see, this is the life thatI want for myself.
This is life I want for thepeople that I love, for my
friends, for my family.
I want this life for everyone.
We can do it.
We can do it, but it startswith the and unraveling within
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ourselves To begin consideringwhat is the headroom.
I need to create my own life,and Then we need to come
together to share Our mission.
This is my mission in my life.
How can we collaborate togetherto create a shared mission for
our tribe?
We were working with each otherto raise each other up to
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accomplish that shared mission,and we celebrate the
accomplishment of everybody'smission together, so that we can
be wholly present with eachother, cherishing each moment.
And that is the gift ofpresence that we can give to
each other, we can give toourselves, and and that will
lead us to a life that wecherish.
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So my hope is that thisChristmas for you, for your
family, for your loved ones,that you have the bandwidth to
be wholly present, to be hereand now with your family, with
your friends, with your lovedones, so that on the day of
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Christmas, you can createmoments together that you'll
cherish for even more.
Okay, that's it for now.
For the nature of presents,talk soon.
Okay, so this one's about the nature of presence.
So I was inspired to do thisone today because of a question
my mother asked me and that waswhat do you want for Christmas?
And I remember at the timebeing so engrossed in what I was
doing at work and so fixed andfocused on Delivering something,
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you know, accomplishing amission, that the question in
and of itself, when I consideredstopping what I was doing to
then think about what it is Iwant for Christmas, the
disruption in that, to investmyself into that even that
question Felt like a real choreand a real Just, really
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disruptive To what I was doing.
And that's not to say that Ididn't want to contemplate it,
but in that moment it was.
I didn't have the bandwidth,and so there you have a moment
whereby my mother's evokingsomething out of me to full
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consideration that requires aninvestment of my time, my energy
, my presence, intointrospection, and so it got me
thinking about presence a lot,and I'm working with a
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phenomenal team of founders whoare Looking at turning present,
the presence of a human being,into a tokenized asset, a
tokenized real-world asset, andwe're looking at ways we can
support them and potentiallyHelp them to incubate their
startup, and so it's timely thatI've that.
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I share my perspective onpresence, because I think it's
fundamentally one of the mostprecious Commodities that there
is, and, in fact, I'd even go asfar as to say it's the only
real thing that matters in life.
It's the only thing thatmatters in life is being here
now.
So in that context you know onthe assumption that what I'm
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saying is Is true for not justmyself, but most of us what does
that actually mean in terms oflife?
If our presence is the onlything that matters in that
moment, why are we living ourlives the way that we are right
now?
Because it's fundamentallyflawed In context of our
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presence and the only thing thatreally matters being is to be
here now, then surely the mostprecious thing to us as human
beings are moments.
So if a moment is the onlything that's truly precious To a
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human being In terms of theirquality of life, then it's.
You expand upon that and yousay, well, it's a human being.
You expand upon that and yousay, well, it's moments that we
cherish.
So then you say, okay.
So if moments that we cherish,if that is the key to living a
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fulfilling and meaningful life.
What are the obstacles andbarriers preventing me from
Creating moments that I cherish?
And so you see, this unfoldmentof Fundamental understanding of
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what really matters in life tous as human beings, that the
true essence of what quality oflife actually means is that
we're creating moments that wecan cherish.
And so when my mother asked methat question, what do you want
for Christmas and I saw that asa disruption from what I was
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doing I had to say to myself Iswhat I'm doing now disrupting me
from a moment I could cherishwith my mother?
It is what I'm doing,disrupting me from other
potential moments that I couldbe cherishing.
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And so the unraveling began.
So it's like, okay, let'screate my life around this
hypothesis that this is reallythe essence of life and what it
means to be alive.
And so you begin the grandunraveling and you say, well,
what is a cherished moment?
What is it about each momentthat means that it is cherished,
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and what would have to be truein order for a moment to be
cherished?
So you then it just hits you inthe face.
It's like it's the people thatI'm with.
It's a shared experience withpeople with, I mean, the most
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diverse thing I've ever comeacross in my life is the
variation in people, thedifferences, the uniqueness of a
human being.
So, as an isolated human being,when you're sitting with
yourself and contemplating, it'swholly familiar, other than a
thought which could arise whichcould be wholly unique.
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And so I cherish those momentswith myself where I can let my
mind soar without constraints,in the real world of
entrepreneurship.
My nature is that my mind is, itsoars, it goes to the absolute
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apex of what's possible, andthat's very, very useful when
people are feel constrainedwhere they're at now, and I can
blow the glass ceiling off sothat their conception of what's
possible expands.
However, life is about.
Life is about the space inbetween the possible and the
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impossible, and you wantbandwidth between those things,
you want headroom.
So for me, what I a moment thatI cherish on my own, is to let
my mind soar, to contemplatewhat's possible, understanding
that I don't.
My life doesn't have to be areflection of what's possible.
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I want my life to be a fluid,the fluid result of the space in
between the possible and theimpossible.
So life is the space in between.
You have headroom betweenwhat's possible and what's
impossible, and to me that's agraceful life, and so I want
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that solitude.
I want that time to myself.
That's a moment that I cherish,moments to myself, where I can
allow my mind to soar withoutconstraint, without having to
make it possible in the realworld.
I want to go out and imaginewhat human AI symbiosis would
look like, what fusedconsciousness might be, might
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look like, what spliced DNAmight look like.
Just because it's fun, justbecause it's fun, it's not
because I'm because that's whatI want to do.
I just want to conceive ofwhat's possible so that, because
until you do that, you can'treconcile what's desirable
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within that.
So, if that's possible, what isdesirable within that?
And in fact, more often than not, when I allow my mind to soar
in that way, I become more andmore aware of what I cherish
about here and now and what'salready in front of me in the
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life that I have now, and Irealized that I don't want to
fuse with AI, I don't want tosplice my DNA with something
else, because there are so manymoments that I've yet to cherish
about what I have now, where Iam now and I'm potential to be
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unlocked inside the human body,that I have right now to explore
with the people and theuniqueness of the people that
are here and now.
And so when you explore what'spossible with what's here now,
it's infinite, without having togo off into the realms of the
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infinite, and so okay.
But so that's one component ofmy ideal life moments to myself
alone where I can allow my mindto soar, those are cherished
moments for me.
So what has to be true in thatregard?
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For me to have a moment tomyself where I can allow my mind
to soar, means I have to haveno distractions around me, so I
switch my phone off.
Means I have to be in a placeof solitude where there are no
unexpected distractions, whereit feels peaceful to me, where I
can be wholly present withmyself in that moment.
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But then, if you, there's asubtle component to this which
is essential and this is athread that runs through all
cherished moments is that therehas to be nothing else occupying
bandwidth inside my mind If Iwant to allow my mind to soar.
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I can't be thinking about mybills, my health, my emotional
state, the health of my family,the health of my friends, the
wars going on in the world.
All those things are trying tooccupy bandwidth within my mind.
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So, as long as the subtle humof those things is going on,
when my intention is to whollydevote my presence to allowing
my mind to soar, then I'mencumbered by other aspects of
my life that are occupyingbandwidth.
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So, in that scenario, what youcan see is a blueprint for how
to live life and how every humanbeing can live their life, and
this is why it's sofundamentally important to
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honour and respect the validityof every single human being's
perspective, no matter howdistorted it may be to someone
else, because the nature ofwhat's occupying space in your
mind is indifferent to what thetruth means.
If you're worried about toxicalgal bloom, if you're worried
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about cats destroying nativebirds, if you're worried about
fungus on your toenail, ifyou're worried about the fact
that you broke a nail, if you'reworried about that, you got the
wrong colour lipstick and itdoesn't match your outfit, all
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that matters is what's occupyingbandwidth and space in your
mind, and this is where, ashuman beings, we compare
ourselves to other people and wesay oh well, you know the
suffering that's going on inanother country because of war.
We invalidate our own.
And it's not that it'ssuffering.
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I'm just talking about theobstacles and barriers to being
wholly present, to cherish amoment.
And so here we have a blueprintfor life.
It's about understanding whatis occupying bandwidth in our
mind Work, projects at work, ourhealth, our mental state of
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being, medication, guilt,emotions, and so if we really
want moments to cherish in ourlife, we have to devote
ourselves to the unraveling ofthese things, to we free up the
bandwidth in our mind in orderto create the space to be here
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now, unencumbered with maximumbandwidth, to just be here and
wholly present and to let go andthat's a magical feeling being
in that flow.
We've all felt it when we'renot really thinking because our
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mind's empty.
It's like a blank canvas andit's like our nature arises and
expresses itself through us ontothat canvas.
And so here you see a blueprintand a template for presence
unfolding.
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So, okay, what are other momentsthat I cherish?
So I know that I cherishmoments by myself, allowing my
mind to soar with maximumbandwidth available space in my
mind.
So what else?
Well, being with another personthat I, who I cherish.
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So spending quality time withanother unique human being that
I gravitate towards and wherethe conversation flows and our
minds can soar together.
I love that.
I love that, especially in asetting, you know, like an
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outdoor bar, with a bit ofhustle and bustle, vibrant
people around us and nice hum,trying a drink that I've never
tried before sun's shining.
I cherish those moments, Icherish the conversation, I
cherish the uniqueness of wherethat conversation goes and
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what's possible because of thecollaboration.
It always happens in anunexpected way, the nature of
the back and forth and thebouncing of ideas in a
collaborative way, where you'reexploring the potential of
what's possible together, oryou're just actually just
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bouncing off each other inunexpected ways for no reason.
It's almost like curiosity morethan anything else, and being
wholly present in those momentsis a wonderful thing.
And so, okay, that's anothermoment that I cherish.
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So then you apply the samething.
So how can I be fully presentin that moment?
Well, what's occupying bandwidthin my mind?
Health, it comes back to thesame fundamental things.
I'm worried about my grandma,or whether there's bills to pay
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or it's the bandwidth is thesame.
The things encroaching into myspace, creating obstacles and
barriers preventing me frombeing present, are the focus in
my life.
They're the path, the aspectsof my life that I want to devote
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myself to so that they becomeautonomous so that I can create
headroom.
See, I'm notice, I'm talkingabout bandwidth and headroom,
and this is the key.
Anything that's occupyingbandwidth is limiting your
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headroom.
The more headroom you have, themore things flow, the more of a
state of grace that you're in.
So if my health is occupyingbandwidth, how can I create
headroom so that that flows inmy life and so it begins the
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great unfoldment?
Why am I concerned about myhealth?
I don't know.
So, okay, you begin with acheckup, you do the checkup and
you may free your mind straightaway.
Oh, I've got perfect health.
Or it may be that you've gotpain in your body, or it may be
that your mobility is not great.
It may be that you just don'tfeel good in your body.
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You know it may be comfortablewith your physical appearance,
which is totally okay.
That could be an emotionalissue, it could be a mental
issue, it could be traumarelated, but you see, it's not
until we actually unravel thething and we give that its own
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space and we create bandwidthfor that thing.
Sorry, we create headroom forthat thing so that eventually it
becomes autonomous and itdoesn't occupy space in your
mind.
It becomes autonomous and itbecomes unconscious and
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therefore it's not pulling usaway from each moment, it's not
nagging on us, at us to give itheadroom, so we can cherish each
moment more and more together.
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So imagine a.
So.
So I cherish moments by myself.
I cherish moments with otherswhere our minds can sort
together.
Where else do I cherish?
I cherish moments when thereare three of us and where we're
kind of there are two oppositesand there's someone who's kind
of like a, like a transformer inbetween.
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And what I notice about when I'min a space with three people in
that dynamic is we can actuallycreate stuff.
So if you think about when I'malone, my mind soars.
What's possible?
There's no creation in that,it's just imagination.
If you imagine with two people,our minds are soaring together.
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You know, I imagine I imaginelike DNA twisted together, just
soaring and just going as far aswe can.
And then I imagine therevelations that we have along
the way that were unexpected andthat expand our awareness of
what's possible.
Maybe they reveal deeperdesires that were unaware that
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we knew we had.
It illuminates things.
Then you bring three people inand specifically especially when
there's a really superb dynamicwhere you've got and I call
this trinity, where you have,which is binary and infinity, so
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a one and a zero, so everything, so off and on, or everything
and nothing, and then the spacein between are varying degrees
of the same thing.
Some people some of you arelistening to this are used to
like the diamond or the doublediamond design design method
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where you're creating, you'retalking about what's possible
tempered by what's impossible,and then you're constraining
possibilities until you land onwhat you actually want to create
.
It's kind of similar to thatdynamic, so three people in the
same space, wholly present witheach other, but in that scenario
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you're into creative energywhereby by the end of that
session, you could land on aconcept that has a beginning and
an end.
And so you can see a theme here.
The theme for me is for my life, I need the full gamut of
creation and I want to beincluded and involved in all of
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those phases.
I want to be on my own,allowing my mind to soar.
I want to be with another mindwho enables my mind to soar, and
new and unique in differentways, and then I want three of
us together to create a viableconcept with a beginning and an
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end, where the zenith of what Ibelieve is possible and the
absolute, the reverse zenith ofwhat's impossible.
I don't know what you call thatno-transcript.
I create temperance for eachone, but there's a concept
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occupying the space in between.
The fact is, in what's possibleand what's impossible, to create
something in the here and nowthat will fluidly be able to be
stood up now to create somethingnow, now it could be something
to create in the future.
It depends on what yourpipeline's like, and this is
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what it means to be in the flow.
What can we do here and now,understanding what's possible
and understanding what'simpossible, so that we can
perpetually and continuallycreate and progress.
So I cherish all of thosemoments.
I love all that stuff.
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So what else do I cherish?
Well, I cherish being in anenvironment where we're
celebrating together and myfavorite is the accomplishment
of a shared mission, and thatcould take on any shape or form.
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It's chaotic in nature.
You're just there, being witheach other, reflecting on an
accomplished mission.
Now, each of us could have had adifferent role in that.
It's not about that.
We've ticked off a bunch oftasks and, oh yeah, I've
completed this task and this isthe next.
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I did 11 tasks today and that'sgreat.
Those are the things that arefor ourselves, to make us feel
as though those are theconstraint the self-imposed
constraints we put on ourselves,that make us feel good in
ourselves.
So that's part of it, butthat's a self-responsible thing.
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I know that because I tickedthese things off my list today.
The self-imposed constraints Iput on my own time and energy
today means that they're notoccupying space in my mind,
means that we're aligned to themission and we're going to
accomplish the mission.
Here's the I'm on track.
It means that the part I'mplaying and accomplishing a
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shared mission, I feel goodabout my contribution.
You see, it's not about peoplegoing, oh you did so much work
today.
That's nonsense.
That just doesn't work.
That doesn't work.
The self-imposed constraintsare our responsibility as human
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beings.
They're what make us feel goodabout ourselves and give us
respect in ourselves and trustin ourselves.
We trust ourselves that ourself-imposed constraints are the
standards we set for ourselves.
So back to the scenario of acherished moment, a shared
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mission that's been accomplished.
We're all celebrating togetherbecause together we were able to
achieve whatever it was.
We did it, we did it, and so weshare in the success together.
My preference is we share inthe spoils as well, and it's
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kind of like the old tribalmentality.
If it's in a business sense, ifthe tribe goes hunting and they
shoot a deer, then you feedeveryone, because if everyone's
fed, then the bandwidth andeveryone's mind is free.
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You're not worried aboutwhether the tribe's hungry,
you're not worried about peoplesurviving.
You feed them with what youhave so that you can continue to
create moments that you cancherish.
That's what the quality of ourlife is about, and you celebrate
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each other, you appreciate eachother.
You realise in those momentsthat you accomplished the
mission because of theuniqueness of one another, not
because of a list of tasks thatwere completed, and you weigh
them up and say, oh, this onedid more work than that one or
whatever it may be.
Lots of people's uniqueness isbased upon the gravity they can
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create around a situation, thepeople they can pull into a room
, the credibility of theirreputation, the diversity of
their networks, the mana oftheir word.
When they speak someone, peoplelisten, their mentorship, their
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shared experiences.
It's all just this grand.
It's kind of like a tapestry.
We weave together All of thatuniqueness, we encapsulate it
and we utilise it to accomplisha shared mission.
And because of thecollaboration and because it's
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we create a space for eachindividual to show up wholly as
an individual rather than as anaccountant or as a web developer
.
You're a unique human being.
You can bring your whole selfto accomplishing a mission.
Just because you're anaccountant doesn't mean you
can't pick up the phone and talkto someone about sales or it's
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about.
When you have that freedom tobe a human being and to bring
the richness of who you are tothe potential of that scenario,
then those moments are whollycherished.
Once you accomplish the missionand for me, I like to go to the
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pub and I'm cheering each other, high-fiving pats on the back,
sharing stories, war storiesCan't believe we did that, oh
you know contemplating whatcomes next and all the new
challenges that come because ofthe success, because of what's
made possible, because of whathappened.
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So I cherish those moments andso, underpinning this, it's the
same things.
How can I go into that spaceand cherish that moment?
I have to be able to rememberit.
If I'm not present, then Iwon't remember the moment,
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because my mind will have beenbased on the future, based on
the health of my cat, based onthat my garden's not growing
properly based on whatever it is, whatever it is, but it's on us
to devote the time, the energyand the effort into creating the
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headroom for everything so thatit doesn't occupy space in our
minds preventing us from beingwholly present in each moment,
so that we have memories that wecan cherish, so we can remember
being in the moment, and so youcan see the theme here, the
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other moments that I cherish.
I love music.
Most of my friends are, all youknow.
We have a DJing backgroundsemi-professional DJing, if not
professional DJing.
You probably couldn't make agreat living out of it, but most
of us have DJed at massivefestivals and kind of regularly
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DJed in the weekends andnightclubs and things like that.
So what we love now is we loveevents around a birthday party
where we come together, gettogether, we all jam, drink
quite a lot, if I'm honest, havea barbecue, the kids are
playing in the pool and thesebig mash-up events with music
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and sunshine and cider and thesun, and that's a whole other
dynamic.
That's even more chaos.
You're celebrating each other.
You're celebrating the life ofanother human being, reflecting
on the past, telling stories,thinking about the future.
It could be anything.
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You're open to the totallyunexpected.
And I find in those moments thereally unexpected can happen.
And when you're whole, you'represent in those moments, those
are moments that you know kindof come out and that will stick
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with you, that you kind ofreally never forget.
And here we have the quality ofour life.
This is really what quality oflife is the ability to be holy,
present at the moment.
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So if you let's just base, makethe assumption that we can all
agree on that, yeah, that soundsawesome, yeah, it sounds
amazing.
Well, how is civilization, theway that it's structured now, an
impediment to this?
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And it really is an impediment.
It is an impediment Becausethere's, we don't have enough
autonomy, we don't, we haven'tdecided as a civilization to say
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that this is our shared intent,this is our unified intent of
purpose, this is how we, this iswhat we're going to devote
innovation to.
This is, you know, if you bringthis into the context of
innovation as an example, andyou've got a tribe, let's say
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you've got a community, andlet's call that your tribe.
They're the people that youwork with on the shared missions
and and all the rest of it, oncommercial ventures or some kind
of business venture.
Well then you look at eachindividual and you understand
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together what is the bandwidth,what's occupying space in their
mind that's preventing them frombeing holy present.
And for one person, that's themortgage.
For one person it's the healthof their daughter.
For one person it's, you know,the grandmother's going blind.
For one person, it's chronicpain in their body.
For another person, their dog'sgot a sore leg.
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For another person, broken nail.
So we don't invalidate thesethings, we encapsulate, because
what the things that areoccupying space in your mind are
indifferent to the degrees ofperceived levels of suffering or
whatever it may be.
All that matters is what'soccupying the space.
And so when you can cometogether as a tribe and say,
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okay, these are all the thingsthat are impeding the quality of
your life, that are preventingcherished moments from being
cherished, where you canactually share, you know, in
this scenario you couldaccomplish a shared mission, but
you are unable to cherish themoment because your mind was
occupied thinking about thehealth of your grandmother.
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So you end up, you don'tcherish the moment and therefore
you don't.
The quality of your life isimpeded.
So in that scenario, youactually become a tribe and you
actually say, well, I'm reallyworried about my grandmother.
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So, in the context of innovation, we look at what's the
challenge with your grandmothershe's going blind.
Why is she going blind?
Been to the doctors, they don'tknow what's going on.
Or there's a two year waitinglist for an operation, whatever
it may be.
Now, the two year operation,it's an impediment to the
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quality of our lives, it's notworking, it's not good enough,
but we have to accept thesethings.
So, in context of innovation,you always start small, you
perfect a small thing and youproliferate the small thing.
And you probably already knowwe're into big time, into
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decentralization and cooperativecollaboration.
So it's not about deferringyour authority to the
centralized thing.
It's about the tribe comingtogether to say how can we, how
can we accelerate this?
How can we fund innovation tocreate something new?
How can we find have we gotscientists around us who are
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working on things like this infields of AI and blindness, and
you know?
How can we amplify those things?
How can we provide funding toaccelerate this?
How can we recalculate the riskand set a new standard for
regulation that supersedes whatexists right now that the
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government is stating, how canwe come up with a way of doing a
clinical trial that's evensafer than the way it is now,
but a thousand times faster.
And how can we create astandard for measuring the
vulnerability of our grandmotherin terms of her having full
disclosure on the risk and theperceived reward?
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You see, this is whatsovereignty means.
It means that if something'soccupying bandwidth in your mind
and affecting the quality ofyour life, you get to decide how
much risk you take.
Only you know how painful it is.
Only you know what it wouldmean to be liberated from that.
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Only you know the impact on thequality of your life If the
innovation were to be successfuland if the full disclosure
happens, if the safe space iscreated by your entire tribe who
love you, they're not gonna.
They will not put you at risk,at undue risk.
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However, they will honor yourfree will choice.
I speak to many people who are IDon't like using the word
disabled because I don't seethem as disabled.
I see them as profoundly gifted.
But they have challenges intheir life and the quality of
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their life is so impeded byWhether it's emotional or
Physical or mental the, theamount of risk they are prepared
to take to escape thatsituation.
It's heartbreaking.
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It's heartbreaking Because thedegree of suffering that they're
experiencing on a day-to-daybasis Is so intense that they're
prepared to take the risk.
It's worth it, you see.
So sovereignty means that if youare prepared to take that risk,
then it's about your tribecoming around you to say okay,
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we know that this is reallyimportant to you.
You're prepared to put yourlife on the line.
There's a 50-50 chance that youwon't survive the operation.
As an example, how can we movethat?
How can we come together reallyquickly to accelerate it, that
to move that 50% to 25?
And if we can get it 25, can wemove it to 10?
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You see, this is whatmission-led innovation means.
We accomplish shared missiontogether.
It's like we love you too much.
50, 50, 50 is not good enough.
How can we innovate to get thatto 1% chance of failure?
Or maybe we get to 10?
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You see, so that this is, thisis how we redesign and reform
civilization.
We, we, we restructure it sothat the driving force and the
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power behind everything that wedo is driven by our love for
each other.
You see, because the reasonthings occupying space in your
mind, the reason you're worriedabout the health of your tribe
or of your grandmother, or thedeterioration of people is
because of love, because they'reat risk.
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You, because you're concernedabout their quality of life.
You're, you're concerned thatthey're suffering.
This is occupying the space inyour mind.
If you can't pay the bills,it's because of love, because
the people that need a roof overtheir head and food in their
bellies are at risk.
It's love.
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The reason you're concernedabout your sister.
He's considering an operationwith a 50 50% of that.
It won't work.
It's because of love, because ofthe moments yet to be cherished
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that would be lost.
And the grief is Because of theunrealized potential moments we
could have had, cherishing.
We could have cherished withthat person if we were able to
be wholly present, together Tocreate moments, together to
cherish.
You see, this is how we reformcivilization, this is how we
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restructure it In a tribal way,but harnessing the potential of
innovation, capturing theuniqueness of everybody around
us, sharing with the rest of ourtribe what's occupying Time and
space in our minds, and comingtogether to encourage each other
To accomplish the intimate, theincremental, to achieve the
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shared mission together.
You know, if it's mobility forsomeone, you know we, we share
the accomplishment of.
They were able to walk 50 stepstoday.
They only did 10 stepsyesterday.
That 100 steps, 100 steps.
On the weekend they did akilometer.
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They've done five kilometers.
They're jogging now.
You see, we lift each other upTo accomplish a shared mission
so that, in an autonomous way,we create the headroom around
the challenges and the sufferingthat's occupying time and space
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in our minds, that liberates usto be wholly present with each
other in each moment, so that wecan cherish each other and
create moments to cherish.
And this, this is what makesliving and, in the quality of
our life, becomes the incentiveto prolong it, to cherish life
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itself.
We want to invest in creatingheadroom Around aspects of our
life where there's no bandwidthand we help each other to create
that headroom, so that webecome autonomous and
Deliberated and free to just behere now, in each moment,
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cherishing each other's presence.
You see, this is the life thatI want for myself.
This is life I want for thepeople that I love, for my
friends, for my family.
I want this life for everyone.
We can do it.
We can do it, but it startswith the and unraveling within
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ourselves To begin consideringwhat is the headroom.
I need to create my own life,and Then we need to come
together to share Our mission.
This is my mission in my life.
How can we collaborate togetherto create a shared mission for
our tribe?
We were working with each otherto raise each other up to
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accomplish that shared mission,and we celebrate the
accomplishment of everybody'smission together, so that we can
be wholly present with eachother, cherishing each moment.
And that is the gift ofpresence that we can give to
each other, we can give toourselves, and and that will
lead us to a life that wecherish.
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So my hope is that thisChristmas for you, for your
family, for your loved ones,that you have the bandwidth to
be wholly present, to be hereand now with your family, with
your friends, with your lovedones, so that on the day of
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Christmas, you can createmoments together that you'll
cherish for even more.
Okay, that's it for now.
For the nature of presents,talk soon.
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