Stories
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So now let me introduce you to four people whose
stories
I had the great honor of telling.
The first is in the strength of her family and all the other families to continue telling their
stories
and to go on with their lives despite the terrorism.
We must change that, and so I ask you to please help share these
stories
through your networks.
And today, I'm pleased to announce Planet
stories.
It's a long story, but the core idea is just that what you get from purely reductionist explanations in physical terms, in brain-based terms, is
stories
about the functioning of a system, its structure, its dynamics, the behavior it produces, great for solving the easy problems — how we behave, how we function — but when it comes to subjective experience — why does all this feel like something from the inside?
I'm here to tell you not just my story but
stories
of exceptional women from India whom I've met.
They are sharing their
stories
with me, they are sharing their wisdom with me, and I'm just lucky to be with them.
In terms of the content of it, you look at stories, you think, what are
stories
but mystery boxes?
And it's true in so many movies and
stories.
So there is a direct link between these two
stories
or there isn't?
I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find persuasive
stories
to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't.
For thousands of years, these
stories
were called divine right.
As a kid I always loved information that I could get from data and the
stories
that could be told with numbers.
I'll just tell you quickly about two
stories
drawn from recent headlines.
And what I'd like to do is to invite all of you to help create this curriculum with the
stories
and the experiences and the challenges that each of you lives and faces, to create something powerfully collective.
And the
stories
of heroism go well beyond just a kid getting a few extra chicken nuggets on their lunch tray.
So one great thing that has happened to me is recently I published a book on this, and every day now that I open my email or when I go to a reading or even when I go to a cocktail party, people tell me their
stories
of the animals that they have met.
Since I've spent so much time with these stories, digging into archives, I literally spent years doing this research, and it's changed me.
Talking about empowerment is odd, because when we talk about empowerment, what affects us most are the
stories.
So the media was filled with
stories
about all the horrific deeds that Indian men are capable of.
Don't get me wrong, the challenges that women will face in telling their
stories
is real, but we need to start pursuing and trying to identify mediums to participate in our system and not just pursue the media blindly.
Today, I want to tell you two short
stories
from our work.
If you don't like the 24/7 all Kardashian all the time programming, you've got to stop clicking on the
stories
about Kim Kardashian's sideboob.
I mean, really, same example: if you don't like politicians calling each other names, stop clicking on the
stories
about what one guy in one party called the other guy in the other party.
It's clear to me that there are so many
stories
of upstreamists who are doing remarkable things.
What is most compelling is that every day, every week, I hear
stories
just like Veronica's.
There are
stories
out there of Veronica and many more like her, people who are coming to the healthcare system and getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be part of something that works, a health care system that stops bouncing you back and forth but actually improves your health, listens to you who you are, addresses the context of your life, whether you're rich or poor or middle class.
These
stories
are compelling because not only do they tell us that we're this close to getting the healthcare system that we want, but that there's something that we can all do to get there.
I've always been fascinated by those decades and by that history, and I would often beg my grandmother to tell me as many
stories
as possible about the old New York.
I was in charge of the four-year-olds, which is good, because four-year-olds can't play sports, and neither can I. (Laughter) I play sports at a four-year-old level, so what would happen is the kids would dribble around some cones, and then got hot, and then they would go sit underneath the tree where I was already sitting — (Laughter) — and I would just make up
stories
and tell them to them and I would tell them
stories
about my life.
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