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And the trick here is to use a single, readable sentence that the audience can key into if they get a bit lost, and then provide visuals which appeal to our other senses and create a deeper sense of
understanding
of what's being described.
Take your science, subtract your bullet points and your jargon, divide by relevance, meaning share what's relevant to the audience, and multiply it by the passion that you have for this incredible work that you're doing, and that is going to equal incredible interactions that are full of
understanding.
We can understand this process by
understanding
a little bit about emotions in general.
And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better
understanding
of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.
And that eloquently describes the challenge, changing your appearance for the 30 days, and also the outcome that we're trying to achieve: getting men engaged in their health, having them have a better
understanding
about the health risks that they face.
So that year really taught us the importance of being patient and really
understanding
the local market before you become so bold as to set lofty targets.
My hope is that over time, by tracking people's moment-to-moment happiness and their experiences in daily life, we'll be able to uncover a lot of important causes of happiness, and then in the end, a scientific
understanding
of happiness will help us create a future that's not only richer and healthier, but happier as well.
So it's the same way, like those action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision, etc., and so we need and we're working on
understanding
what are those active ingredients so that we can really then leverage them to deliver better games, either for education or for rehabilitation of patients.
Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the twentieth century and have given us a new
understanding
of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.
This has led to a common
understanding
of our situation, namely that modernity has brought us terrible violence, and perhaps that native peoples lived in a state of harmony that we have departed from, to our peril.
Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common
understanding
is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
And we're
understanding.
We're seeing the emergence of long-term and highly-funded programs which aim at
understanding
our networked world from a complexity point of view.
And I want to pause again to bring up context, because context helps us to get clarity
understanding
this thing.
We need to build a collective database and a collective
understanding
of where we are to go to the next point.
We had no
understanding
of that.
And raise your hand if you think that basic research on fruit flies has anything to do with
understanding
mental illness in humans.
We know much less about their treatment and the
understanding
of their basic mechanisms than we do about diseases of the body.
I'm curious about how things work and how they are made, but also because I believe we should have a deeper
understanding
of the components that make up our world, and right now, we don't know enough about these high-tech composites our future will be made of.
That's Danny Bessette, 23 years later, because this is the year, and it's also the year where Danny got married, where we have, for the first time, the approval by the FDA of a drug that precisely targets the defect in cystic fibrosis based upon all this molecular
understanding.
And we think once people see these films, they'll have a much better
understanding
of that part of the world and the Middle East in general.
So we built a large rotating chamber, and people would come up and spin the chamber faster or slower, adding energy to the system and getting an intuitive
understanding
of how self-assembly works and how we could use this as a macroscale construction or manufacturing technique for products.
But equally important, it takes an
understanding
that it's hard work that makes the difference.
Remarkable stories, good-news stories, all of which boil down to
understanding
something about the diseases that has allowed us to detect early and intervene early.
We're going to hear about a biochemical imbalance or we're going to hear about drugs or we're going to hear about some very simplistic notion that will take our subjective experience and turn it into molecules, or maybe into some sort of very flat, unidimensional
understanding
of what it is to have depression or schizophrenia.
Now, already in the case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, while we don't have an in-depth
understanding
of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in these illnesses, we have been able to already identify some of the connectional differences, or some of the ways in which the circuitry is different for people who have these disorders.
If we want today to build technology that can overcome the challenges that we face, we have to throw our entire selves into
understanding
the issues and into building solutions that are as human as the problems they aim to solve.
George Washington Carver says all learning is
understanding
relationships.
After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better
understanding
of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective.
Fortunately, more and more people are
understanding
this idea, and the result is a growing movement: effective altruism.
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