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Published: 2017-09-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJg4sVyAW-U
while I was down in a small town the society Indian society started seeing me upon bottom you see the word pun about I'm comes from our mental models of Indian cast and I'm not I'm is somebody from a lower caste was belittled similar to the one part I had the best tone will uses fatter meaning outcast without even realizing that millions of people in India at
which breaking part II comes from the word pot I yeah a farm on the untouchable caste and that's where this meaning outkast comes from so we limit these models in our minds embedded in our lives without even being a benefit including this conference this theme past forward so I want to engage you are in an exercise quickly please use your hands to gestured to me hall
would you gesture past using your hands past future past future now the south American I wanna try but you find them to ask them to do the same gestures what do past future pasta something that is already unfolded already seen so you could see the past fugitive something unknown unknowable in your walking backwards into the future what a beautiful model what what a beautiful mental model
but for you to make a transition to understand a different dimension of this two words past and future you have to because Bob has no mind to go to I. monus mental model from your mental model so I'm here to talk about the idea that our group as individuals certainly depends on our ability to constantly see these mental models alert ability to long to give these
sites for our little minds to cross matters the work that I do that Chuck that spoke about how long does weed to bring young people from around the world from very different social economic backgrounds rich poor rural urban sound and local all into one group so are these young minds to explore each other and examine themselves for a period of time inmates doctor with an employee
of some all in one group seeing each other's mental models seemed eighteen hundred slaves on one is never went to school together and in nineteen hundreds for the most part men and women never went to school together product on areas we continue talking about racial and gender disparity and and this century read on let the rich and poor kids to go to school together and we
segregate them I'm fond of the two hundred centuries we'll talk about other kind of disparities so this work allows these kids who would never be in school together to come together and explore each other and explode their minds and I'm just going to predict what we DO two minutes video for you to see how this works similar programs I expected in I think people I guess
npower Ivon deadlines all the but I've never seen I cried at India and much more rather than let me think about I do I was afraid of the bad thing leann one seven brothers so I was really surprised I these kids in place because I I really like I really don't like and nbspartist let me know and I know but I right about I was many
nbae me nbae and why wait so I got every NMO so like these children in this video that you just saw V. have to learn to issue visas for alliance to cross waters in our mental models so what I'm going to do next is tell you about five stories and I am going to do that is to talk about the fact that you need a passport
first before you start issuing visas and the password is your identity as a person and the more we explore about identities in our hearts then we developed this ability to stop issuing more passports for our minds I'm going to tell you a few stories it remember I told you the society started seeing me as a fun back up but my pin started seeing me as a
missile seems like a BB opinion pins on missile launches we had great missile rocket launchers when a child is Bombay say had led to a great school by the age of three be stock Donna doing this missile launching activity a great school by the age of three now memorably missile launchers we take them to fight back and we had great and re use really out relaunch
that a good school no good grade now take them aside back put it back again the music good school good grade no great top university now take them aside back in the states but do a great job for probably a broad and it now you know why a lot of C. wasn't as well come from India and then boom that missile has hit the target no
you take it back now that is my wife and kids now this missile launching activity that we do in India is pretty pretty much the mental model every child who has gone up in Indian culture knows about but then I was young unfortunately for my parents I started reading poetry early on I made it this could be the brawn call and it said you our children
are not your children your children are like airless and you are like a barrel you have to bend and the great and and and and better than that it in the house god and the god is going to put you in the direction and you as a parent is just going to ban I said oh my god titling this depends your children are not your children
Indian past but but I think certainly does not exhilarating for I said well it's so liberating I started seeing myself as a as an adult instead of from inside the can at CA a hands off my pants I mean it's not just Indian parents let's be fair here every institution in this world price to make them as I wrote a few that I went to Harvard
I dig me this admission letter and they said you have to bring a hundred thousand US dollars to study in this institution myself thank you very much Jim just we have given me a kind admission but I come from the small town in India I don't have the sun that thousand dollars and they fit don't despair read this letter and the game showed me a letter
and this is a letter from a multinational back which said if you have an admission letter from heart would be will give you this hundred thousand dollars us moan and David had a beautiful mental of model of me as a better a lifelong better paying debt for that and and and and I said wonderful thank you very much I need to go to the it usually
took the money and then came the financial crisis of two thousand eight and then they have the same bank shares crash from dollar forty to one dollar per share and they said this is the time of I. changing my mental model model of this back about their faith amid paid off did that my colleague by selling their own shares that have used on company business maybe
what I'm telling you this it is because your mental models rule you and in the more you explore yourself a suppression whether you want a misfired on whether you want air or whether you want to bet on either side of shareholder decide that the the passport pages a few yourself but the more you are grounded then the more you're going to be issuing visas now once
you stop being grounded the next stage of food is being with people who are diametrically opposite to you like these kids but we saw in this video tapes are entirely different social economic backgrounds people who are you are not ever be bits like them exit sites that we did in fast and far but who can help you crossed these bloggers in your mind like the man
I met him and Molly Ivins crossing the border between Senegal Mali by a road with five other Malian people in that part of the world it's called the collective taxi all these people travel together in a taxi five of them on my audience I'm one person from India and then the taxi costs the body from Senegal tamale what you do is if you're a Malian you
Bob Marley passport control office and if you're in any of that is a separate passport control office and the money it's not been recess that did the results of passport all strapped in no time and then the vehicle no closer into the alien passport control office and use sitting there thinking my goodness I'm gonna make five of these people wait a minute to get really angry
about me so I'm running faster the passport office and there's an old man standing right outside the office I look at camp and by now I've traveled on Mr in Africa by rote and I don't know French and you would then realize that your column iced English from India goes nowhere in investor in Africa which was a French colony so I go to this man and
say so my passport but because I've now you still owe gotten used to using body language and he looked at me like this in fact he's just how you ask in impeccable English don't you say good morning I said it is Saudi said I've been chiming in on foot a two months here and nobody really seems to respond to my English and I don't know French
and you set if you say good morning everybody would respond and I thought my god I batted into some problem hit this man walks from outside this then and six of the passport control offices Jane he's the man was supposed to issue me a visa and he's the one who's going to stop crime that passport I'm standing there thinking my Indian mental model is telling me
this should be a corrupt bureaucrat trying to get some draft out of me but this man politely after five minutes or so looks like me picks my passport stamps that and then tells me never ever begin another conversation without a great excitement motherhood graft it was all about breeding and you have to go deep into mommy evening tamale to understand why did that culture treats breeding
of such an important part of its own mental model to go deep and and so I traveled with me so that the money should but also I got issued a new visa for my mind so you have to be with people who thinks see things ready money differently up this mountain close to rake up not in the village and traveling there and I am a mechanical
engineer by training and this man has passed out eighth grade hasn't done a thing in mechanical engineering but he was bored cutting grass seed custody cut grass is two meters long it's elephant grass any effort that got the twenty because any sitting down and having every day and he says Hey this is boring job I'm not going to do this everyday goes to market by is
to buy a machine and there is nothing call the grass chopping machine in this world and the meanest machine that comes as the GE machine which is it humana really expensive and he could buy ten because of this machine so he comes back put a mechanic from his village built a machine of his own any sitting good my three the machine is chopping and he's sitting
and watching and enjoying his life on the Mabus announcing while this is tastic get me some machines so you know that's a new business every machine is two hundred fifty US dollars sitting in a market goes to the convo Lynch he is just someone machines up to machines which agreement not helping machines I looked at him by now vest on mandalas have all come in into
my mind and I look at him and said Hey this is fantastic did you patent your invention other people copying errors he looked at me smiled and said Hey for about sixty religious here everybody knows me that trust me as the best guide to the she means and and they think they can maintain their but beyond the borders and even hear a lot of people do
they want he said god bless them all isn't that a beautiful model and it in for me to be buried with him it was a fascinating learning expediency newbies up for my mind so distraught forget it on the video that you shot assault been these children from very different social economic backgrounds come together business in Madras opening enormous opening informative years then the deadly child comes
to a rule of thumb are now doing its bit to at it child which is much more like the maids dodder they think that the type thing so I don't go to school with this person and then suddenly there is this that's fought in China the same program befriending this Indian auto Thailand the damage I'd say it's hot so this could just child could be an
equal of me I could be a friend of southerly something opens up and federal you the person makes a new friend are if laden student coming in in into you in the interview had this real story who told us that her cookies and buried in the hotel are being stolen every day and he said why would have been even better to come back housekeeping staff is
really stealing bits of the call the housekeeping stuff and they said no it's the opposite the child keeps the patio door open and those of in books coming taken yet trying to prevent the butts from taking our cookies of it and what a beautiful running for the child to know that not everybody was different from you is out there to steal your heart your hobby they
maybe actually saving your bookings for you you know so these kind of longing sub just amazing how it opens up and bought all these will that you saw six of them are going to talking in this June and they're going to be in a Turkish village with international students mitts Turkish village students and I have no doubts that they were lab results on their passports and
some of the international students will also have visas credit cards to fund a financial transactions I have no doubts that all these children who come back empowered with results for their minds so I wish you all a beautiful joining us newbies as every day of the a beautiful Johnny read your passport is down dead in your hearts your identity you I understand that and you continue
