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We need to
spend
more time appreciating what already exists, and less time agonizing over what else we can do.
I want to
spend
just a moment talking about the model we've developed, which allows us to start at the top and look at the drivers of sound, analyze the soundscape and then predict the four outcomes I just talked about.
I don't quite mean that the golden rule itself is written in our genes, but you can go to a hunter gatherer society that has had no exposure to any of the great religious traditions, no exposure to ethical philosophy, and you'll find, if you
spend
time with these people, that, basically, they believe that one good turn deserves another, and that bad deeds should be punished.
Before the 1960s, bilingualism was considered a handicap that slowed a child's development by forcing them to
spend
too much energy distinguishing between languages, a view based largely on flawed studies.
Farmers now, who used to have to
spend
half a day of backbreaking labor to find out if the market town was open, if the market was on, whether the product they'd harvested could be sold, what price they'd fetch.
The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 years: two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they
spend
in their natural mother's womb; now they are metaphorically in the womb of the great mother.
So this object is supposed to be displayed on your desk, or on your piano, where you are supposed to
spend
most of your time in the day.
This is Lewes in Sussex, who have recently launched the Lewes Pound, a currency that you can only
spend
within the town, as a way of starting to cycle money within the local economy.
I
spend
as much of my time as possible investigating the marine life.
That means to load the batteries during the flight, in order to
spend
the night on the batteries, and fly the next day again.
I seem to
spend
most of my time these days zipping from city to city, studio to studio, interview to interview, serving up the book in really tiny bite-size chunks.
Since Bala himself will be speaking at TED I won't
spend
too much time on him here today, except to say that he really succeeds at making the invisible visible.
And you realize that you
spend
it in a variety of different places.
You
spend
it at rest and you
spend
it at work.
So, it's not really simple when somebody asks you, "Where do you live, where do you work, and where do you
spend
all your time?
Well, when I have done this on myself, I always come to the conclusion that I
spend
about 75 percent of my time relatively in a small number of places.
And I could
spend
hours talking about them, because they're all kind of heroes.
Sendhil Mullainathan: Yeah, we
spend
a lot of time talking to marketers, and I think 60 percent of it is exactly what you say, there are insights to be gleaned there.
We
spend
very little, if any, dollars in terms of identifying what we're up against.
We
spend
our lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide, you name it; it's on the front page of every paper, CNN.
Ten percent of what we
spend
on health care, as I said earlier, is on obesity, and it's going to double.
How much money do you spend, in your life, in a supermarket?
But at the same time, anthropologists know that most hunter-gatherer tribes of the world, with that very little technology, actually did not
spend
a very long time gathering the food they needed: three to six hours a day.
Public agenda did a survey for us a couple of years ago where they found that 43 percent of the high school teachers in America say that they
spend
at least half of their time maintaining order in the classroom.
We could
spend
10,000 lifetimes trying to prune this legal jungle.
We're supposed to
spend
a third of our life in sleep.
And how to
spend
it would seem to be relevant, but that is not the story that the remembering self keeps for us.
We're just going to
spend
a minute on this.
Spend
a minute doing that.
But instead of recognizing that it is the model itself that's flawed, what we do is
spend
enormous amounts of time changing the "if." "Oh, well, I thought if I became CEO it would help, but now I realize it's not that I want to become a CEO.
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