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Four months later I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn't go quite as expected: My knees and my ankles wouldn't bend and at
one
point I traumatized all the skiers on the chair lift when I fell and my legs, still attached to my snowboard — (Laughter) — went flying down the mountain, and I was on top of the mountain still.
And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: one, stop us in our tracks or two, force us to get creative.
When Tony was 16 years old,
one
day,
one
moment, "It was mom's gun.
Maybe
one
of us is wrong about the wrong.
In other words, I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that
one
of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
Because the inability to experience regret is actually
one
of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
And for the first several hours, there was exactly
one
thought in my head.
But I want to suggest that there's also a fifth
one.
So for instance, here's
one
of my favorite automatic generators of regret in modern life.
And the amazing thing about this really insidious technological innovation is that even just with this
one
thing, we can experience a huge range of regret.
And what I loved about this image of the compass was that I felt like it encapsulated both of these ideas in
one
simple image.
It actually reminds me of the most important lesson regret can teach us, which is also
one
of the most important lessons life teaches us.
And there was silence in the class, and finally
one
woman stood up, [inaudible name], and she said "Khrew," which means "teacher."
And we talked about, as a class, the fact that number one, the confessions might not be reliable, but number two, we did not want to encourage the police to keep doing this, especially as it was now against the law.
But
one
day the perfect case came, and it was a woman who was a vegetable seller, she was sitting outside of a house.
The police are
one
of the main reasons why we had the revolution.
I met with
one
of the development agencies, and they were training prosecutors and judges, which is the normal bias, as opposed to defenders.
But I said to them, "I just have
one
question, which is, by the time that everybody got to the prosecutor's office, what had happened to them?"
And I was sitting side by side with
one
of our very courageous lawyers, and said, "How can we get this out?
Now, there's
one
of our favorite poems from the defenders, which they share from each other, is: "Take courage friends, the road is often long, the path is never clear, and the stakes are very high, but deep down, you are not alone."
But because he was born in the prison, everybody loved him, including the guards, so he was the only
one
who was allowed to come in and out of the bars.
But I'm
one.
And I will do the
one
thing that I can do."
And
one
of the most fascinating insights I took from this work is that we're all learning about the world even before we enter it.
One
researcher says that they probably sound a lot like the the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher in the old "Peanuts" cartoon.
Newborn babies can't do much, but
one
thing they're really good at is sucking.
Researchers take advantage of this fact by rigging up two rubber nipples, so that if a baby sucks on one, it hears a recording of its mother's voice on a pair of headphones, and if it sucks on the other nipple, it hears a recording of a female stranger's voice.
Babies quickly show their preference by choosing the first
one.
My favorite experiment of this kind is the
one
that showed that the babies of women who watched a certain soap opera every day during pregnancy recognized the theme song of that show once they were born.
In
one
experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.
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