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We go
like
that, and we imagine that's what deafness is about.
Or we go
like
that, and we imagine that's what blindness is about.
For me, as a musician who deals with 99 percent of new music, it's very easy for me to say, "Oh yes, I
like
that piece.
No, I don't
like
that piece," and so on.
But I can surely tell you that in my country, much
like
on Wall Street and the city of London and elsewhere, men were at the helm of the game of the financial sector, and that kind of lack of diversity and sameness leads to disastrous problems.
So it was almost
like
coming out of the closet to actually talk about the fact that we were women and that we believed that we had a set of values and a way of doing business that would be more sustainable than what we had experienced until then.
We also believe in straight-talking, telling it as it is, using simple language that people understand, telling people about the downsides as well as the potential upsides, and even telling the bad news that no one wants to utter,
like
our lack of belief in the sustainability of the Icelandic financial sector that already we had months before the collapse hit us.
So while we want to make economic profit for ourselves and our customers, we are willing to do it with a long-term view, and we
like
to have a wider definition of profits than just the economic profit in the next quarter.
So we
like
to see profits, plus positive social and environmental benefits, when we invest.
Like
TED, I believe in people.
But I've come to conclude lately that it isn't
like
that.
I would give the boy probably about 30 seconds, which means, by the time he got to me, I was already saying things like, "Why are you crying?
And out of my own frustration of my role and responsibility of building him up as a man to fit into these guidelines and these structures that are defining this man box, I would find myself saying things like, "Just go in your room.
(Audience: Man.)
Like
a man.
I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked him, I said, "How would you feel if, in front of all the players, your coach told you you were playing
like
a girl?"
Now I expected him to say something like, I'd be sad; I'd be mad; I'd be angry, or something
like
that.
For everybody else, we go around
like
we've been having sex since we were two.
So,
like
my mother would say, make a long story short, I just simply said to Johnny, "Yes."
It was
like
the waiting room in the doctor's office.
So quickly, I'd
like
to just say, this is the love of my life, my daughter Jay.
I remember asking a nine-year-old boy, I asked a nine-year-old boy, "What would life be
like
for you, if you didn't have to adhere to this man box?"
I grew up
like
this, and so did my other three sisters.
It's
like
a death of a relative, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, or an earthquake.
And this is why I
like
to talk about this, because if we don't acknowledge it, then the transition will be pretty painful.
And they expected that it would be young families, or young men, just
like
it had always been.
It looks
like
women got some power boost on a video game, or
like
they snuck in some secret serum into their birth-control pills that lets them shoot up high.
If you look at management theory these days, it used to be that our ideal leader sounded something
like
General Patton, right?
But that's not what an ideal leader is
like
now.
Or that we require kids to sit still too much, and so boys initially feel
like
failures?
And that's part of the reason I
like
to talk about this, because I think it can be pretty painful, and we really have to work through it.
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