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Published: 2017-08-25
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMEVptIsMA
I have a confession to make I have an affliction disease if you will with neurological disease it's been often characterized as obsessive compulsive data disorder I am a data geek I I love daytime not a mathematician I'm not a physician I don't claim to be a data scientist either but I love the ability of leveraging information to educate the world and educate ourselves and frankly give
ourselves the opportunity to unlock attention that's in the soul %HESITATION without necessarily having to read books to get there in fact sometimes are off the pain so my friends they say no and you like it genius I'm no genius I'm just a guy with a beard you know follows genius sort of figure out how to grow hair %HESITATION but I'm not I'm just a guy who
loves information but but it is it a code to me will why are they saying that we see them for full said destroy all that was genius you have these genius moments and we've all had it in a family with a friends with people we work with except for I wondered to myself just for the heck is genius I mean to me this guy was a
genius I hold him to the highest I got I also hold people like Leonardo da Vinci is so I hold many musical time people is geniuses I I hold young kids is Jean because I think their innocence by which they communicate is fabulous speaking of innocence some people have even told me that my son my youngest goes a little bit like Einstein and it's not because
of the tongue licking my head this is in the heat of summer in Australia at that time and I can tell you the reason why they said that is that my son does have a new logical he's a special needs child %HESITATION I'm much like Albert Einstein he didn't say his first word to he was five he has the diction today he is seven years old
today but he does addiction of an eighteen month old to this day we don't know what your logical issue is actually going on all that we know is that he is special and deserves all the love and encouragement that we and his family can provide but it made me think though right so you know how to carry do something about I would say that guy you
know this could be something I can do in this space to help them I work in in clinical practice my backgrounds in genetics surely there is something that we can do that I wanna take you to a story this is a story that's real I want to take you to what was that moment in time that got me thinking about this and not only got me
thinking about this but coming off my us to actually do something but it so much of many of you familiar with this place how many of you have been to Barcelona wonderful so another if famous genius from that region is a person by the name of god and we went to the god museum of those you're familiar with this area here it's a pretty crowded area
the casa mia is absolute architectural Marvel in fact going inside is equally is remarkable inside that place we had just seen that place it was around June July of %HESITATION of a couple of years ago when my son was about four years old and we had just gone to Starbucks my parents are with me my two other children with me we've gone to Starbucks and something
happened not completely I'm going to fast forward and I'm gonna tell you what got me motivated in the tools that I use now to start figuring out frankly can I use data code genius create it and this humble aspiration came and age forty two those of you who read the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy would know this sounds quite well everything happens of forty two if
you haven't reached there yet you house %HESITATION befor me forty two was really remarkable age it was a couple of things it was the year that I also discovered that %HESITATION to sing some positions I I had %HESITATION adults on sick dyslexia I try and those of you who've read my SO messes my in my emails I feel swoop how few and I apologize for that
because spell check has no chance against me I like the token emerges it's how I convey emotions of teleconverter my sentences but that also may be struck with yet another data point they came to be crystallized what I stood for and what I was gonna do and what how I live my life now is really based on five simple things in fact I'd today's my day
to on the job and I'm interviewing for the job and they said well he's a job description acid claim that this is what my job description be and also it's these five things I called the five sees I teach my children this I've taught numerous %HESITATION CEO's of fortune five hundred companies the same thing when I was working at the UN that is number one curiosity
like Albert Einstein said you have to be curious challenge me ask questions be curious number two have the confidence and audacity ask difficult things go forward with your beliefs number three challenge and also be willing to chop I think we are living in times where clearly challenging but at the same time it's appropriate that we listen to those challenges we try to understand what those challenges
our biggest somewhere in there may be something we missed which was actually a viable opportunity number four being a money curious but also being charitable for mean knowledge is only as good as those who get to leverage and beyond yourself that's why I love Ted ideas work sharing this is all about us conveying our knowledge to you so for me these are the things that I
live my life by and that's my job description that's what I do that's how I get things done I thought if I apply that to my personal life what more can be achieved so I thought of an otherwise man %HESITATION person by the name of Yoda and those of you know me Norman very %HESITATION have another addiction which is Star Wars %HESITATION and I thought well
if you don't know how to write an equation around this wondrous would be and again I'm not a math person so please leave a mathematical comments in the section if you're willing to contribute to that please do I try to make it simple I thought learning IE the fox things with toward throughout all life plus wisdom the mistakes we learned over a period of time over
that period of time I lifelong learning if we leverage that is sort of the main part of the equation all of those are frankly impact did exponentially by the power of our emotions I don't believe there's a single person in this world who says I ate create decisions I make decisions based on fact it's the biggest load of B. S. you'll ever hear nobody creates decisions
on fact they all created on the motion we all do every day we just like the disguise of this fact as it does it fit I thought well you I figure that out maybe maybe is a chance of treating genius so I thought to myself well okay we if we could do that either problem statements that we need to start resolving across all those because I
need to put it in context and that looks great %HESITATION honor slide or something but it's not necessarily indicative of how we would apply this into meaningful outcomes that benefit many of us in fact could benefit my child as well I thought long and hard about what is my son's future going to look like what is the next one or two years who look like how
is gonna make friends how we gonna make friends of parents like until the of how horrible experience where parents have walked away from a simply because a child with special needs child that pissed me off Arthur I'm gonna fix this if it's the last thing I do so my son would never have to suffer in this world will be treated the same way just because someone
was ignorant to understand this simple facts or use their emotions so some facts between childhood too early %HESITATION to young adults we know the thirty one million students a failing out of school every day these are all U. S. just a figure throw a little math %HESITATION we know that thirty two million repeat a grade between kindergarten to year twelve the one that truly shocks me
is that one student drops out of high school every twenty six good how imagine if we could even decrease that by a little bit where maybe it's every five seconds or every ten seconds think of the a lawn moss that we be creating think of the Einsteins and have an opportunity in this world to do something truly valuable with that but it doesn't stop there adulthood
is actually much more complex in order presidential sing thing to hear I found as I was doing this research died the way in which we thought about education was completely wrong that's easy thing to say level I'm talking about here is that actually the two most fundamental human rights that we are entitled to is education and healthcare if they seem to be the two most underserved
now as we grow older educational benefits are complicated by healthcare benefits and so I started to think beyond industry it's after it like a DJ right if it makes things to think of the order looked like thank and so here are some of the stocks ninety percent of today's work full so I can digital skills you know my daughter asked me questions about what do you
do at work NASA from a power point I have think of all the kids use all of those things we've one of the best we can do some stupid power point right we need to rethink education for older populations never had that Frasier contents an old dog new tricks for a comes from you're trying to teach my kids and you get you like someone talking down
to now I don't I like people treating me as an adult working with me as an adult teaching in an adult fashion the one that worries me again led the big one with all this digital technologies stuff transition from education to healthcare again dementia we'll be the number one cause of depression and death in the world pretty sobering right but we can get past that yeah
absolutely can get past that for me when I thought about my child you know maybe doing some professional some sort how could I am sure that he's getting dignity back in his life it's not about how much he knows find out what he applies to but that he feels fulfillment and what he's doing I've spoken to elderly people across the world is part of my health
care work that I do and one of the number one thing they always ask is if people just treat me like a human being right so we're asking for Phillies of the challenges my pretty grand but I'm not afraid of the screen I think these are all accomplish I am being a day the guy somewhat digital guy I thought well how can we in fact well
I I I collaborate with a bunch of weirdos like myself and I love those readers to death because actually generate out places she treat because you really awesome fantastic conversations but in thinking through that as sort of a world contextual elements that actually will allow us to help us understand emotion at the point of decision making not what they did but what is the emotional state
of that individual at the point of decision making and they're buying tapping into that emotion giving them the best opportunity to feel all that emotion into productive behavior owing to productive application line so first of all the states of whether right I mean to you socked you know telling my door this morning my kinds like Seattle again you know yeah it's been like this for a
week the problem but have a motion made me change so many things in my morning habit think of it what it does to a child or to an adult who wants to learn a new outfit right if there's high pollen count Sonya taking medicine to ensure the antihistamines are working in your system guess what that number zero little bit you may not be at your peak
educational performance when you do that number two computer vision of this the stuff that my inner nerd few division is the whole area being able to look at different areas of the face to measure emotion the feds have been doing this extremely well over a period of time other countries are doing it really well if you start looking at MIT and the McGovern institute they're doing
fantastic work in this space this is an area that I think is really going to change things particular when you're holding up a device in front of you like this if your special needs however development if you like this so if you would just number one signal but this computer vision that can help that too school prefer computing you block out everything in the middle and
you only focus on the areas on the edge energy %HESITATION speech Alexa or one our homes our commerce is changing the way in which we order by purchase of questions in fact the most terrifying experience I had late last year was cooking my kids a meal and hearing them talking in some random stranger giving the masses on their homework only to find that it was Alexa
Google's dead for them then using Google if you listen right is there the walls changing I'm wearables Paul farmers this kind of information look we're seeing a lot of good work happening in this space in a line machine learning is all the buzz words of the thrown around cognitive computing whatever the heck that's supposed to mean yeah these are all areas that are doing these problems
really well but not looking at the context under which emotional applications being developed so I propose to actually the problem that I am on a personal mission stop trying to solve the internet of things I'm care how many machines of talking to one I care about what emotions there indicating in in the children and the people I care about I care about can we actually attract
the Nemo to state and understand what that emotion is at the point of decision making using all of that data yeah there's a buzzword floating around a couple years ago called big data will guess what people where in the world a freaking enormous data now I love that child to try to solve that problem because if we can solve that problem we can solve the problem
of members kids don't have to fail through high school imagine if two students first June wrote learner possums full lays no problems and I have issued standardized testing that's a political issue but nothing do with how you live you've got those issues there but then you but other students were if you ask them the question they can tell you just like that if you ask them
to write it down they fail so they didn't know the question but why couldn't they just use a speech recognition system I let the computer talk about their answer for them imagine if that child now instead of getting a sixty now gotta eighteen or nineteen the remote to state would be happier their willingness to learn would be happier if their ability to unlock that potential would
be significantly improved that's the goal guys that's the goal so how imaging the world this is when he was in India %HESITATION we've gone a little trick I have very early age I'm sure you've seen it may be in diapers maybe not %HESITATION but looking at the iPad and doing his own investigation I think the one thing I want to propose fuel that learning and the