Wanted
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I'm a man who's trying to live from his heart, and so just before I get going, I
wanted
to tell you as a South African that one of the men who has inspired me most passed away a few hours ago.
Mandela said often that the gift of prison was the ability to go within and to think, to create in himself the things he most
wanted
for South Africa: peace, reconciliation, harmony.
But I just wondered if you
wanted
to share any additional thoughts, because we know that you heard that news just before coming in to do this session.
Then we also
wanted
to look at other ways of using land in addition to growing food and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.
I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously
wanted
to do, and I didn't know why.
I went a few years ago to a conference, and on Friday of the three-day conference, one of the participants took me aside, and she said, "I suffer from depression and I'm a little embarrassed about it, but I've been taking this medication, and I just
wanted
to ask you what you think?"
I was really moved by these experiences, and I decided that I
wanted
to write about them not only in a book I was working on, but also in an article, and I got a commission from The New York Times Magazine to write about depression among the indigent.
And this is the type of mechanism that the Jaipur Foot Organization was using when they were looking for a better knee, and I just
wanted
to give you a sense of what a leg system looks like, because I'm showing you all these knees and I imagine it's hard to think how it all fits together.
So I
wanted
to show you some of the iterations we did between the first version, the Jaipur Knee, so this is it right here.
We told the participants they could keep these 10 dollars for themselves, or they could share a portion of it, if they
wanted
to, with a stranger, who's totally anonymous.
I also love the fact that if I
wanted
to walk from my house to New York City, I could.
I mean, I couldn't take your phones off you if I
wanted
to.
We
wanted
to do more than just make people aware of it.
We
wanted
people to get involved.
So we took all of our computer code and made that available online under an open-source license to anybody that
wanted
it.
I
wanted
it to be less of a mechanical structure giving me light, and more of a helpful, kind of quiet apprentice that's always there when you need it and doesn't really interfere.
But I
wanted
my robot to be less of a chess player, and more like a doer that just clicks and works together.
I had all these stories and ideas, and I
wanted
to share them with people, but physiologically, I couldn't do it.
But the more I wrote, and the more I practiced, the more I
wanted
to perform.
And I
wanted
more.
I
wanted
to understand who we were arresting, who we were charging, and who we were putting in our nation's jails and prisons.
I also
wanted
to understand if we were making decisions in a way that made us safer.
So I
wanted
to do things differently.
I
wanted
to introduce data and analytics and rigorous statistical analysis into our work.
In short, I
wanted
to moneyball criminal justice.
He
wanted
to be a chef really badly.
And so what better gift for a kid who
wanted
to be a chef than an Easy-Bake Oven.
And he
wanted
one so badly.
I look out into this crowd, and I see 400 people who came out because they
wanted
to know how they could make a change, and I know that you can, and all of you watching at home can too because you have so much that you can do and that you believe in, and you can trade it across all these social media, through Facebook, through Twitter, through YouTube, through Reddit, through Tumblr, through whatever else you can think of.
I
wanted
to understand complexity, the complexity of the world around us and especially in the animal kingdom.
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