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So when Netra and I sat down to make our first plan 10 years ago, we said we want the focus of this plan to go way beyond ourselves.
What do we mean by beyond ourselves?
One of the most important things in my 200-year plan that Netra and I write is what to forget about ourselves.
Maybe we are among the first generation that really understands this digital curating of ourselves.
It really teaches us who we are, and helps us contextualize ourselves in the world, but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.
We challenged ourselves to create an online class that would be equal or better in quality to our Stanford class, but to bring it to anyone in the world for free.
And imagine, just consider this idea, if you would: What if we could connect ourselves in this world through a vast network of air and glass?
As we've seen here, we're transforming ourselves into cyborgs.
We should view it as a functioning organ, part of ourselves.
The next chapter begins with first of all, asking ourselves this fundamental question, "Whom do we want to help in Africa?"
After over 20 years in South Africa we find ourselves as the black masses still suffering and fighting for our freedom and humanity.
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design if we could free ourselves from our experience?
If we could free ourselves from our education?
The thing is, I think we should give ourselves a break.
Well, first of all, it requires that we find people who are very different from ourselves.
That means we have to resist the neurobiological drive, which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves, and it means we have to seek out people with different backgrounds, different disciplines, different ways of thinking and different experience, and find ways to engage with them.
But when we dare to break that silence, or when we dare to see, and we create conflict, we enable ourselves and the people around us to do our very best thinking.
Now, this is healthy and this is somebody making speech sounds, and we can think of ourselves as vocal ballet dancers, because we have to coordinate all of these vocal organs when we make sounds, and we all actually have the genes for it.
We are dependent on one another, and admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness.
It's a liberation from our misconceptions, and it's an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves and to simply begin.
And we said to that public meeting in Todmorden, look, let's imagine that our town is focused around three plates: a community plate, the way we live our everyday lives; a learning plate, what we teach our kids in school and what new skills we share amongst ourselves; and business, what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support.
We're starting to build resilience ourselves.
We're starting to reinvent community ourselves, and we've done it all without a flipping strategy document.
Through an organic process, through an increasing recognition of the power of small actions, we are starting, at last, to believe in ourselves again, and to believe in our capacity, each and every one of us, to build a different and a kinder future, and in my book, that's incredible.
And the way to do that is to understand where trust wobbles for ourselves and have a ready-made prescription to overcome it.
And if in those instances, we can come up with a trigger that gets us to look up, look at the people right in front of us, listen to them, deeply immerse ourselves in their perspectives, then we have a chance of having a sturdy leg of empathy.
We have to ask ourselves hard questions.
Lyn Gardner in The Guardian has written that a great festival can show us a map of the world, a map of the city and a map of ourselves, but there is no one fixed festival model.
And we are socially addicted to growth, because thanks to a century of consumer propaganda, which fascinatingly was created by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who realized that his uncle's psychotherapy could be turned into very lucrative retail therapy if we could be convinced to believe that we transform ourselves every time we buy something more.
We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone layer, pushing ourselves beyond the planetary boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 years made earth such a benevolent home to humanity.
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