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LC: You know, what really impressed me about the workers is how much they're self-motivated, self-driven, resourceful, and the thing that struck me, what they want most is education, to learn, because most of them come from very poor backgrounds.
In January, 2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, third deadliest earthquake of all time, left one million people, 10 percent of the population, homeless.
And it struck me that if you could train ordinary people to deliver such complex health care interventions, then perhaps they could also do the same with mental health care.
It's struck by lightning.
But the thing that really struck me, when I plotted all this data, and it was a lot of numbers, was that you can see how it levels off.
They'd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ship's hull.
Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid they'd be struck by severe storms.
And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo, where my friend Aida saw the tank coming 20 years ago, and in that road were more than 12,000 red chairs, empty, and every single one of them symbolized a person who had died during the siege, just in Sarajevo, not in all of Bosnia, and it stretched from one end of the city to a large part of it, and the saddest for me were the tiny little chairs for the children.
But I was struck by the fact that America, a country with such a tarnished civil rights record, could be repeating its mistakes so blatantly.
And it struck me that if I could write stories that were about this world as being small and interconnected, that maybe I could get people interested in the issues that affected us all, and maybe engage them to make a difference.
And so, this whole thing has struck me as exciting to be here, because life is finite.
What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.
And a couple of things struck me about this.
Which might be why when I looked at the earliest accounts we have of that night, what struck me even more than what happened was what did not happen.
It struck her as strange.
She argued and argued, and finally she struck lucky when a researcher came through town studying the history of mines in the area, and she told him her story, and at first, of course, like everyone, he didn't believe her, but he went back to Seattle and he did his own research and he realized that she was right.
We did an opinion poll on this recently, and I was struck to see that most people actually want us to build superintelligence: AI that's vastly smarter than us in all ways.
And then I was struck in the history of the Internet.
But the thing that struck me is, one guy said in exasperation, a very famous neurobiologist, he said, "Look, in my discipline it's okay to be interested in consciousness, but get tenure first.
Iran and Israel's conflict is a new phenomenon, only a few decades old in a history of 2,500 years, and precisely because its roots are geopolitical, it means that solutions can be found, compromises can be struck, however difficult it yet may be.
My responsibilities were largely related to tuberculosis, and then we got struck by an epidemic of cholera.
Immediately, I was struck by an incredible sense of fear, of confusion, of vulnerability, like anybody would.
I was really struck by the symphony of subtle sounds all around me in the city that you can hear and work with to understand where you are, how you need to move, and where you need to go.
What struck me also was how much the city was changing around me.
But while in Oakland, I've really been struck by how much the city of Oakland changed as I lost my sight.
But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy.
I was struck by the fact that depression is broadly perceived to be a modern, Western, middle-class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts, and one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent.
It really struck me, and I wanted to do something about this.
And then it struck me that what the mother had done was something incredible.
And it struck me that maybe this is what I was looking for.
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