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I left San Francisco, where I live, on Monday, and I was getting on the plane for this conference.
And so you have to understand that I have a bachelor's and a master's in social work, and I was getting my Ph.D. in social work, so my entire academic career was surrounded by people who kind of believed in the "life's messy, love it."
Having to ask my husband for help because I'm sick, and we're newly married; initiating sex with my husband; initiating sex with my wife; being turned down; asking someone out; waiting for the doctor to call back; getting laid off; laying off people.
And in the course of that, I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is getting enough sleep.
Not "You must kill unbelievers in Mecca," but you can, you are allowed to, but only after a grace period is over, and only if there's no other pact in place, and only if they try to stop you getting to the Kaaba, and only if they attack you first.
So we've done this on eight subjects now, and we're getting all the data together, hopefully we'll have something to say about it meaningfully.
But we want to get at the root of what is creative genius neurologically, and I think, with these methods, we're getting close.
If we think about disruptive technology, we see an almost ubiquitous pattern of the technology getting smaller and less expensive.
And then I got excited when it started getting tens of hits, and then I started getting excited when it started getting dozens and then hundreds and then thousands and then millions.
It started getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
It is not getting other countries to arm themselves to the teeth with the weapons that we produce and we sell them.
When she was planting those trees, I don't think most people understand that, at the same time, she was using the action of getting people together to plant those trees to talk about how to overcome the authoritarian government in her country.
People could not gather without getting busted and taken to jail.
In my view, what we need today is people getting up and taking action to reclaim the meaning of peace.
But they keep hearing about people getting rich, and then in 1850 they still hear that.
And, you know, we think it's getting better, but have you tried to install 802.11 yourself?
And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.
That's me getting mica.
And in fact, university administrators are a little uncomfortable about the idea that we may be getting close to 70 percent female population in universities.
The reason that this is a problem is because the message that boys are getting is, "You need to do what the teacher asks you to do all the time."
I had already been turned down by Google and several other firms and was getting frustrated.
That bottle winds up getting burned.
And yet, as a movement that has to broaden its constituency, that has to grow, that has to reach out beyond our natural comfort zone, one of the challenges to the success of this movement, of getting rid of things like plastic and helping the economy shift, is people look at our movement with some suspicion.
So we're getting the dynamics out of the body as well.
Using computers, even though they're getting faster and better all the time, it's a challenge to deal with gigabytes of data, terabytes of data and extracting the relevant information.
As long as kids are playing computer games, graphics is getting better and better and better.
So what we're really getting out of this is information of the structure of the brain, but we can also measure the difference in magnetic properties of blood that's oxygenated and blood that's depleted of oxygen.
In health care terms, you could characterize this as whether or not somebody feels that they see a path towards better health, that they can actually see their way towards getting better health, and that's a very important notion.
These things are shown to be pretty effective in terms of getting people to slow down.
And frankly, although I keep getting asked this, it never occurred to me that anybody would turn me down under the circumstances.
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