You know we all know that
we are moving from a very very industry economic
to acknowledge economic, to a creativity economic.
But what does this really mean?
How do we learn to prepare for this new economic?
The first thing we need to figure out is
we need to create the community of people
People are sitting right here
to open up our imagination
and then turn that imagination into impact.
Now even that, what does 'that' mean?
I have a confession to make.
I work at intel, for many years
and I am from India.
So the only two ways I know how to learn
is either through accer names,
or through stories.
That's it. I can't learn in any other way.
So I thought I have subjected to you the way I learn.
So A.P.P.S
Everybody has apps these days.
There apps for racking up app
for sleeping app for everything
but let me tell you my definition of apps.
You know in Indian mythology,
or in Indian philosophy,
we said there are four stages of our life.
There's childhood, youth,
at age where you are in responsibility of head of the household.
and then ultimately reward now.
You know you retired and then you make your final journey.
So if you think of what does each of these age entail.
So the first thing in the A.P.P.S is
Ask
What does child do all the time?
They keep asking.
Why is the sky blue?
Why are we going there?
Why are we not going there?
Are we there yet?
Why why why why why
They keep asking.
Because that's the way they learn.
And the next thing is Practice.
You know kid gets up walk, falls down
gets up walk falls down, and that's how they learn
you need to practice our ideas over and over and over again
and then we have to become head of the household.
we have to figure out how our ideas are gonna
actually created in back out there and make a profit.
so that we have the whole world a sustainable around us.
And finally, the S is the most important part of this.
is that every learning has this stage
when you need the Surrender to the next generation.
Because otherwise you'll never let someone else come.
And when I say next generation,
I don't mean somebody younger necessary
but maybe the next person who has been working with you.
So you need to know when to complete that.
So in this A.P.P.S
You know we ask, we practice, we create a profit,
we surrender.
Now, in the past, we used to do this only once in our lifetime.
Then maybe my generation do it three or four times.
But in the new generation that's coming out.
Including all of us who is here
who's planing to live for another 20,30 years.
We rather learn how to do this,
over and over and over again.
So there is a circle there with no particular arrow
because it's infinite doom loop.
We have to ask, we have to practice,
we have a profit from it,
we have surrender ourselves go on the new idea.
And this is the paradigm
of the new generation of the new economic is that
we have to learn to let go and keep on.
And to remember this I'll tell you one quick story.
this is a movie called "6 Degrees of Separation"
which is one of my favorite movies.
and in that you know, Donald Sutherland is telling
this story of this teacher of his child.
Since I go to my child's school.
and I asked the teacher:
What is it about you?
Look at the paintings of the second grade,
they are brought it as a black and blue.
Look at the paintings at the fourth grades,
they are you can't even understand.
But the target, every painting is a Picasso,
what is your secret? Let me learn with you."
And the teacher says,
"I just know when to take the painting away from them."
so knowing when to give up
is the most best skill we need to learn.
Now the second thing is,
this is Taiwan, this is the country of manufacturing.
When I say B.O.M,
what do people think?
they think of bill of materials, right?
But i want to give you a different definition of
it after I tell you a few quick stories.
BIll of materials is what is the content of things,
what is in something.
I want to introduce you a few people
who truly are my heroes.
I mean these are the heroes of the new generation.
This boy Sushant Patnaik,
when he was about 15 years old
he went to the hospital and saw someone
was (bad of black jet)
and felt really about the person
not being able to move
so he figured out what is common
between him and the person who can not move
is breathe.
So he created a wheel chair
that move to breathe
when he was aged 17.
And since then he is out of 20 right now.
He has already invented, you can make
cell phone calls using breathe,
you can turn light on and off using breathe.
So he's dedicate to this idea,
and this is Nam Do,
who runs a company called Emotiv.
And what is it is that by thinking something,
you can move objects on the screen.
So what is the power of our thinking
in making things happened in the physical world
Arunachalam, he is a 6-grade-failed,
and he was sitting at his house one day
and he saw his wife was using rags
when she had her periods.
And he decided to invent sanitary napkins
that is affordable for women
so that over 90% of the women in India
and around the world who can not afford
sanitary napkin would be able to use this invention.
And to do that, he had to sacrifice a lot of things,
because he was thought he was weird,
first of all, a guy tying to do this was weird enough.
So when he couldn't find anybody to experiment
to find out if the sanitary napkin is working or not
he actually wore it.
And he took pigs' blood,
and connect to the sanitary napkin
could be riding bikes, could be walking everywhere
pumping this,to test how this works.
I mean it takes guts to do this
for a man from a small town
Elora Hardy,building homes of bamboos
not just any home, luxury homes out of bamboo
Mansukhbai, he has created the refrigerator
that runs through water that does not require electricity
that keeps food cold for at least 2-3 days.
And Maira Kalman,
who is the illustrator with 'The New Yorker',
of the children's book artist
and Tod Machover is the music composer,
who's creating symphony of cities,
He collects sounds of the city and create symphony of them
and then these are what I'm talking about of
all these people is that in my mind the B.O.M
is actually stands for
Billionaires of Moments.
And one of my favorite quotes is that:
"Life are not to be measured by the number of breathes we take,
but by the number of moments that take our breathe away."
So each of these person that I've talked to you about
is creating a world where there are many many
precious moments that are collected for the people around them
That's the billionaire that we all shall aim to become
We should be greedy about collecting these moments
and finally
when we do this, when we do this crazy things,
when we do this out of box things
when we do this nobody believes then,
they are times you wonder
Why am I doing this?
You know there's a time
when I still love climbing mountains
so in the middle of the night
you know you are up in some small mountains,
and it's cold as hell.
And you are thinking of
What the heck am I doing here?
You know? And then you go down
and then like an idiot next weekend
again you're back up again.
So what is this craziness that makes us our move?
It is this word I want you to remember one.
Yi, Ek, any language,
one
we should always think of one person
or one incident
something in our life
that makes us go forward
and to me is this girl
I called her my flower girl.
And I met her about 5 years ago.
And she is in the home where rest
which rescued sex workers
and she was one of the girls that was rescued
she was about 6-year-old
when was rescued.
And she brought home
and she was taking care of
and then
um...you know she's mentally challenged.
So they put her at the home
and they found out two years later
that in that home she's been abuse again.
So they brought her back to the home,
and Sunitha Krishnan who runs this organization
spoke in the conference just like this in India at TED.
And she shared her story about
how difficult that is to create a home,
for women like these who get rescued.
Because no one wants them living in their neighborhood
And just like you
they were people sitting in the audience
they got up
and we actually work with her for 6 months
and we got her enough money
to build the home
for all the women
so the 18 months from the time
she stood and share her story
there's a home where all these women were living
and to me, I felt that
this girl, this face
is what haunted me
I felt I want to give her a home
at least for one day
where she was happy
and they built the home
and pretty soon after that,
she died.
Because at age 9 or 10
by the time she was rescued for the second time.
Her body was ravaged with so much diseases
that she could not survive anymore.
But to me,
every time I think of the crazy things that we do,
every time I think of all these
billionaire of moments we are trying to create
every time we are sitting here biting our nails
wondering if we are ever gonna make it through the year
and every time when I wonder,
should I just go back and get a job,
I just think of this face.
And I think of the story which I'm gonna end.
And the story is of a little boy and starfish.
And this boy goes to the beach,
and there's millions of starfish out there.
And this boy is taking each starfish
and put it back into the ocean.
And then the waves come and wash few more starfish
and he keeps doing it.
Finally an adult who is watching all these.
You know somebody smart like one of like us,
goes to the child and says,
"Why are you doing this?
Why are you putting each because they are just
gonna come right back again
only few of them really make it.
So why do you wanna spend all your day doing this?"
He says,
"Yes a lot of them might wash out,
but for the one starfish that makes it,
I made the difference."
So, the world may or may not be available to you.
But to one person,
you may be the world,
and let that person be your guiding light as
you get to be billionaire of moments.
Thank you.
(Subtitled by Samantha Hu)