I believe the life I live now
is among the infinite multiplicity of
lives I could live now this can be
exciting and empowering but it can also
be quite scary because what easily
follows this belief is a lot of time
spent wondering if the life I’m living
now it’s the right one better still if
the life I’m living now is the best one
now for my 4 year old cousin seen Black
Panther in all its glory might put this
issue to bed rather quickly leave
Nigeria go to Wakanda become the black
panther best life easy right but for the
rest of us choosing the right life the
best life isn’t as easy as that is it we
have tons an array of decisions we have
to make every moment of every day each
one shaping our life accordingly with
infinite possibilities as to what we
could do isn’t attaining the right life
the best life anything bought straight
forward well if the right life was very
well than absolute like the perfect life
then sure but is it is there really all
about absolutes does not making the best
decision the best choice at every step
of the way we need to a second-class
life the truth is we live in a world of
our subjective and personal experiences
or us notable researchers and forgive me
if I mispronounce your name kara Georgie
and Simmel puts it we try to build a
personal view of reality by bringing
order or trying to bring order into the
chaos of signals that impinge on our
senses now this basically means that our
view of the world
or reality isn’t absolute how can it be
there are so many lives we don’t see
thoughts we don’t hear perspectives we
think we understand or really don’t
that’s what we understand is a function
of personal filters like content context
experience goals beliefs interests
there’s so much disparity from reality
that if there is anything
really sure about is that even if
there’s an absolute reality an absolute
life we might never know what that’s
like
so why base an answer to the question of
living the right life on absolutes the
best grades the best job the best place
the best life two years ago attempting
to provide an answer to the question of
living the right life I liken life to
in-game then when asked how you know if
you won or lost I said you only know in
the end I’m for some reason I pictured a
funeral with a scoreboard indicating the
number of people whose lives were made
better because of me essentially the
amount of joy good and beauty
I had brought into the world and
comparison to the amount of joy good and
beauty I had taken away from it now
what this point of view was for the
longest time the very basis of my
actions it won’t be the viewpoint I’ll
be introducing today today I’d like to
introduce a viewpoint I find more
complete and that is what if living true
living is less like what a lot of us do
not less like I’ll just let life happen
or living for goals and it’s more like
building Legos so we’re going to have
some fun now I’m guessing you have your
Lego blocks either in your bags or out
if they’re snowing your bags you can
bring them out so yeah so time is of the
so you should have about ten Legos so
just bring them all out and you can try
making the most creative thing you can
so go ahead start making the most
creative thing you can once you have
so most creative thing you can for those
of you not used to playing with LEGOs
it’s all about using like different
colors or sizes or shapes of Lego blocks
to build intricate designs so today I’m
not going to tell you what colors to use
or ballpark for your creation should
look like I’m just going to ask that you
be a streets of us you can it’s not a
test in any way you know like there’s no
right or wrong no limitations to what
you can do so just go ahead and make
so yeah I’ve seen a couple of awesome
designs they’re awesome awesome so I’m
going to go ahead now and from YC from
your Legos the next thing I want to ask
you is what do your Legos say like what
does the creation you’ve made say what
does it convey so if I look too fearless
me in the eye and ask you to talk about
your creation how would you respond
would you probably on strongly talk
about the process even the challenges
you face like how I kept distracting you
by talking about being creative and
being creative and being creative or
would you shy away and then doing so
leave it to me to define your creation
and all it took to make it so I’m
looking right here at the elegant
looking lady who made what I’ll say is
do you mind raising that up a bit
awesome I’m not reading minds here it’s
my magic trick we’re just trying to
describe what she made so if I looked at
the outside that’s a truck right that’s
the colorful truck with some kind of
steam warning at the top but I can
compensate Donna Thanks but you need to
know that I didn’t make it that’s my
description but I wouldn’t be as
passionate about describing and as she
most likely would be you know like I
don’t know if they’re still in progress
or if it’s finished and most times I
wouldn’t know if it’s what she wants it
to be so first ten for the day don’t let
someone else define your creation don’t
let your creation be someone else’s or
valid guess okay
so we’re going to do something else I’d
like you to partner I put somewhere
so just teams up to you just partner
over someone little hint it might make
it more enjoyable for you if you’re
partnered up with someone you might be
holding a grudge against they might make
it worth your while
so yeah okay so once you have a partner
I’ll say trade trade creations right
trade creations and I’d like you to ruin
your partner’s creation in two takes no
smashing please just you can take off a
piece or break in half or something but
you get two takes at ruining your
partner’s creation have no mercy just go
so Yap so I’m looking at some really
nice demolishing techniques and once
you’re done don’t even try to set it up
just pass like the crumbles to your
[Music]
so if you were looking around if you
were looking around while this was
taking place you’d have noticed a couple
of different reactions there are some
people that were so sad I really felt
for them when their creation was taken
apart there are some people that were
angry they were almost jumping you know
so yeah so on it’s normal like it
happens right but for seasoned Lego
builders it’s nothing new you know like
they’re used to people knocking down or
stepping on their creations it just
simply presents an opportunity to
recreate you understand so if you know
like you have the creation something
wrong happens for seasoned Lego builders
you just build it again this time you
might even building a bit better okay so
think about it this way all of you have
probably heard the saying too legit to
quit right yeah yeah so if your creation
is the legit and I say a lot of them
they are right why quit so I’m just
going to tell you to take the time make
new problems new opportunities so
anything you have right now you can’t
keep building try to fix it you know
like make the problem you just faced an
opportunity try to create a better thing
so now we’re going to go into the and at
any point when I’m talking until I see
like stop you can’t keep building like
it’s it’s fun right just build anything
you want it’s not every day you get to
play Legos so I’m going to go into the
final activity the final thing we’re
going to do today in terms of like
messing the Legos so I’d like you to
take a piece or a chunk it depends on
how generous you want to be of your
creation and give it to someone else
that hasn’t gotten a piece or chunk of a
creation yet so it could be a piece it
could be a chunk of your creation just
so yeah just as much as you want peace
or chunk give it to someone else now
when you get a piece or chunk of someone
else’s creation incorporated to your
LEGO creations whatever is left of it so
yeah
okay so again you might have received
the same creation you give away it’s
very unlikely but you might have
received the same piece of your creation
you gave away you might have received a
totally different piece that totally
redefined your LEGO creation but
whatever the case was something happened
a piece or chunk of your creation
directly impacted someone else’s
creation so I want you to think about
that so I’m going to stop messing with
Legos now we’re just going to look at it
like just look at the creation you have
like what you’re left to it you find
that what we’ve just done right now
symbolizes Lego living and that right
there represents your Lego life right
pay no attention to any perceived
criticism or limitations you channeled
your creativity and came up with in life
you explored your creativity without the
fear of failure you had it go you took
your time and when things are torn apart
you have persistent are you persevered
okay you stopped your life from being
summed up to someone else’s valid guess
by boldly and strongly describing what
it is you were trying to build right
this time there was through words but
sometimes it might be through actions
you took a piece of someone else’s life
and incorporated it into yours and
shared a piece of yours with someone
else and then doing so had a direct
impact on both their life and yours so I
should go forward in life keep the child
alive have a wild mind you want to
change the world just like kids share
their souls with their lego serious over
the world be afraid of feeling but me be
more
Friedel feeling to try except where you
currently are and the responsibilities
you currently have while leading a life
filled with passion and drive it’s not
about what the world does or does not
let us have it’s about building in life
that lets us truly live it’s not just
about the dream it’s more than that it’s
about how we get to it because a Lego
life approach is in a way a dream by
approaching life from a place of
curiosity creativity persistence
awareness optimism and all by simply
building a life of our imagination like
one would build a LEGO creation by
acknowledging the fact that the life we
currently live now is just one of many
any possibility of lives we could live
we could truly liberate ourselves our
minds our friends the world so true
living is lego living the right life is
in Lego life thank you [Applause]
is among the infinite multiplicity of
lives I could live now this can be
exciting and empowering but it can also
be quite scary because what easily
follows this belief is a lot of time
spent wondering if the life I’m living
now it’s the right one better still if
the life I’m living now is the best one
now for my 4 year old cousin seen Black
Panther in all its glory might put this
issue to bed rather quickly leave
Nigeria go to Wakanda become the black
panther best life easy right but for the
rest of us choosing the right life the
best life isn’t as easy as that is it we
have tons an array of decisions we have
to make every moment of every day each
one shaping our life accordingly with
infinite possibilities as to what we
could do isn’t attaining the right life
the best life anything bought straight
forward well if the right life was very
well than absolute like the perfect life
then sure but is it is there really all
about absolutes does not making the best
decision the best choice at every step
of the way we need to a second-class
life the truth is we live in a world of
our subjective and personal experiences
or us notable researchers and forgive me
if I mispronounce your name kara Georgie
and Simmel puts it we try to build a
personal view of reality by bringing
order or trying to bring order into the
chaos of signals that impinge on our
senses now this basically means that our
view of the world
or reality isn’t absolute how can it be
there are so many lives we don’t see
thoughts we don’t hear perspectives we
think we understand or really don’t
that’s what we understand is a function
of personal filters like content context
experience goals beliefs interests
there’s so much disparity from reality
that if there is anything
really sure about is that even if
there’s an absolute reality an absolute
life we might never know what that’s
like
so why base an answer to the question of
living the right life on absolutes the
best grades the best job the best place
the best life two years ago attempting
to provide an answer to the question of
living the right life I liken life to
in-game then when asked how you know if
you won or lost I said you only know in
the end I’m for some reason I pictured a
funeral with a scoreboard indicating the
number of people whose lives were made
better because of me essentially the
amount of joy good and beauty
I had brought into the world and
comparison to the amount of joy good and
beauty I had taken away from it now
what this point of view was for the
longest time the very basis of my
actions it won’t be the viewpoint I’ll
be introducing today today I’d like to
introduce a viewpoint I find more
complete and that is what if living true
living is less like what a lot of us do
not less like I’ll just let life happen
or living for goals and it’s more like
building Legos so we’re going to have
some fun now I’m guessing you have your
Lego blocks either in your bags or out
if they’re snowing your bags you can
bring them out so yeah so time is of the
so you should have about ten Legos so
just bring them all out and you can try
making the most creative thing you can
so go ahead start making the most
creative thing you can once you have
so most creative thing you can for those
of you not used to playing with LEGOs
it’s all about using like different
colors or sizes or shapes of Lego blocks
to build intricate designs so today I’m
not going to tell you what colors to use
or ballpark for your creation should
look like I’m just going to ask that you
be a streets of us you can it’s not a
test in any way you know like there’s no
right or wrong no limitations to what
you can do so just go ahead and make
so yeah I’ve seen a couple of awesome
designs they’re awesome awesome so I’m
going to go ahead now and from YC from
your Legos the next thing I want to ask
you is what do your Legos say like what
does the creation you’ve made say what
does it convey so if I look too fearless
me in the eye and ask you to talk about
your creation how would you respond
would you probably on strongly talk
about the process even the challenges
you face like how I kept distracting you
by talking about being creative and
being creative and being creative or
would you shy away and then doing so
leave it to me to define your creation
and all it took to make it so I’m
looking right here at the elegant
looking lady who made what I’ll say is
do you mind raising that up a bit
awesome I’m not reading minds here it’s
my magic trick we’re just trying to
describe what she made so if I looked at
the outside that’s a truck right that’s
the colorful truck with some kind of
steam warning at the top but I can
compensate Donna Thanks but you need to
know that I didn’t make it that’s my
description but I wouldn’t be as
passionate about describing and as she
most likely would be you know like I
don’t know if they’re still in progress
or if it’s finished and most times I
wouldn’t know if it’s what she wants it
to be so first ten for the day don’t let
someone else define your creation don’t
let your creation be someone else’s or
valid guess okay
so we’re going to do something else I’d
like you to partner I put somewhere
so just teams up to you just partner
over someone little hint it might make
it more enjoyable for you if you’re
partnered up with someone you might be
holding a grudge against they might make
it worth your while
so yeah okay so once you have a partner
I’ll say trade trade creations right
trade creations and I’d like you to ruin
your partner’s creation in two takes no
smashing please just you can take off a
piece or break in half or something but
you get two takes at ruining your
partner’s creation have no mercy just go
so Yap so I’m looking at some really
nice demolishing techniques and once
you’re done don’t even try to set it up
just pass like the crumbles to your
[Music]
so if you were looking around if you
were looking around while this was
taking place you’d have noticed a couple
of different reactions there are some
people that were so sad I really felt
for them when their creation was taken
apart there are some people that were
angry they were almost jumping you know
so yeah so on it’s normal like it
happens right but for seasoned Lego
builders it’s nothing new you know like
they’re used to people knocking down or
stepping on their creations it just
simply presents an opportunity to
recreate you understand so if you know
like you have the creation something
wrong happens for seasoned Lego builders
you just build it again this time you
might even building a bit better okay so
think about it this way all of you have
probably heard the saying too legit to
quit right yeah yeah so if your creation
is the legit and I say a lot of them
they are right why quit so I’m just
going to tell you to take the time make
new problems new opportunities so
anything you have right now you can’t
keep building try to fix it you know
like make the problem you just faced an
opportunity try to create a better thing
so now we’re going to go into the and at
any point when I’m talking until I see
like stop you can’t keep building like
it’s it’s fun right just build anything
you want it’s not every day you get to
play Legos so I’m going to go into the
final activity the final thing we’re
going to do today in terms of like
messing the Legos so I’d like you to
take a piece or a chunk it depends on
how generous you want to be of your
creation and give it to someone else
that hasn’t gotten a piece or chunk of a
creation yet so it could be a piece it
could be a chunk of your creation just
so yeah just as much as you want peace
or chunk give it to someone else now
when you get a piece or chunk of someone
else’s creation incorporated to your
LEGO creations whatever is left of it so
yeah
okay so again you might have received
the same creation you give away it’s
very unlikely but you might have
received the same piece of your creation
you gave away you might have received a
totally different piece that totally
redefined your LEGO creation but
whatever the case was something happened
a piece or chunk of your creation
directly impacted someone else’s
creation so I want you to think about
that so I’m going to stop messing with
Legos now we’re just going to look at it
like just look at the creation you have
like what you’re left to it you find
that what we’ve just done right now
symbolizes Lego living and that right
there represents your Lego life right
pay no attention to any perceived
criticism or limitations you channeled
your creativity and came up with in life
you explored your creativity without the
fear of failure you had it go you took
your time and when things are torn apart
you have persistent are you persevered
okay you stopped your life from being
summed up to someone else’s valid guess
by boldly and strongly describing what
it is you were trying to build right
this time there was through words but
sometimes it might be through actions
you took a piece of someone else’s life
and incorporated it into yours and
shared a piece of yours with someone
else and then doing so had a direct
impact on both their life and yours so I
should go forward in life keep the child
alive have a wild mind you want to
change the world just like kids share
their souls with their lego serious over
the world be afraid of feeling but me be
more
Friedel feeling to try except where you
currently are and the responsibilities
you currently have while leading a life
filled with passion and drive it’s not
about what the world does or does not
let us have it’s about building in life
that lets us truly live it’s not just
about the dream it’s more than that it’s
about how we get to it because a Lego
life approach is in a way a dream by
approaching life from a place of
curiosity creativity persistence
awareness optimism and all by simply
building a life of our imagination like
one would build a LEGO creation by
acknowledging the fact that the life we
currently live now is just one of many
any possibility of lives we could live
we could truly liberate ourselves our
minds our friends the world so true
living is lego living the right life is
in Lego life thank you [Applause]
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