okay can you hear me okay
yeah okay so what would it be like if
you had if you knew you had what you
truly need it in every moment to be able
to complete your visions and dreams what
would you think what would you do who
would you be
my name is Mathias my background is in
technology and web development I have a
background in and also as a venture
partner and I spent four years at Yale
University and in 2012 I left it all
behind I asked myself what do I truly
need to be a happy human and so I I
moved to an island off the Pacific coast
of the United States to find out if you
can go to
so so in the next slide please
okay so I ask myself well what do I
truly need and and and what was
preventing me from being able to ask
what what I truly needed to be able to
achieve my visions and and dreams and
goals what’s what’s stopping me so I
actually won one day I am I was on the
land and I
I even despite a pre-arranged agreement
to be able to you know do work trade for
food I felt uncomfortable asking even
for you know a piece of bread for a
friend of mine in his land I was on in
our our the main kitchen was in here
shared in her home because I was on if I
was I didn’t want to inconvenience her
and I thought you know I’ve had the
experience that I’ve had if if this
happened was something this small well
this must not just be an issue that’s
that’s with me so if you go back a
couple of slides the there was a recent
study in 2015 that looked at the death
rates of middle of white Americans
between ages 45 to 54 from from drugs
from alcohol and suicide and they
and basically it it the rates of those
tests actually increased a half
percentage from 2000 to 2014
even and it actually surpassed the death
rates of african-american African
Americans in that age group so why is
this important well there is a lady by
the name of a lady by the name of
grenade round a few several slides back
who who is a researcher in University of
Houston and she’s been studying shame
and vulnerability for 20 years and her
TED talk the power of vulnerability has
been seen now over twenty nine million
times and what she found out is that
vulnerability is required for connection
so back back on the island after
trimming some bamboo and having what
turns out to be a tasty piece of
whole-grain bread yeah I did muster up
the courage to ask for it I thought well
you know what is it true need and then
what came through was a true need is
simply that which is required for a
satisfying life and that which is
required to understand and to use your
full
potential so I knew this had to do with
leadership somehow I asked myself you
know what connect the great leaders of
all time people like Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Nelson Mandela or
even you know modern day business
leaders like Oprah Winfrey or Richard
Branson or Elon Musk
but more importantly what is the thing
that each of us can do to embody that
sense of leadership – so then I see this
distinction a definition of a true
leader which I shared in the workshop in
the spring of 2013 there was a retired
Army commander named Gregory stone that
was present and he appreciated what I
had to say I however I did not expect
him to stand up in front of 250 leaders
at the closing ceremony of that weekend
gathering
and said in Chariton that I would put
mathias definition of a true leader on
page 1 of the army manual and I was
floored because and this was really
important because to me this signified
is that this was tapping into something
more universal here I was a kind of a
tech technical mystic type guy and this
message resonated with a leader
seemingly on the other end of the scale
or the spectrum so if you’re ready to
write here it is the definition of a
true leaders that came to me is simply
next slide someone who is authentically
aligned with themselves there we go
someone who has a vision and someone who
knows what they truly need and is able
to ask for it and receive from both
themselves and others
so January 13 2013 I woke up cold
freezing my tent I’ve been in a year for
had mold it out and I realized I had
been a hypocrite
I hadn’t really told anybody I had slept
in a tent for a year I mean why would
people think
right but more importantly more
importantly I hadn’t asked for what I
truly needed and so one agonizing
blogpost later I did and I was really
floored by the response from different
friends on social media
and one of those responses actually
included an offer for a new tent go
figure
so you know I was clear that at that
point I needed to take these principles
and embody them myself
first before I would share them in the
rest of the rest of the world so I did I
you could say I took risks I put my
reputation on the line and I was
unreasonable with myself and others in
my requests I was able to crowdfund my
way from the northwest to the southwest
and I tell you miracle
happened which I sheriff out in my
upcoming memoir about this time which
would be available later on this year so
I made it across the desert from the
southwest to San Diego I gave my last
three dollars on an offering plate and
ended up penniless on the beach that was
actually a hundred and forty four days
later exactly as I found out looking
back to when I woke up from the you know
freezing on the island intent and
through that experience I really had the
visceral knowledge of hat that I had
what I truly needed in every moment to
fulfill my visions and dreams even when
it felt the hardest maybe if maybe
you’ve felt something like that too
so the next day I woke up and I actually
received my first Swiss client so you
may know I have actually been here in
Morocco for based here for over a year
now I’ve had the opportunity to support
you know leaders and young entrepreneurs
of in open innovation worked with
companies like cih Bank and Lee deck and
HPS and I’ve shared this message in
various forums and I’m really really
grateful that it has
well received you know there’s an
interesting connection with with Arabic
actually I was on the train for a
Marrakech to Casablanca and I met a new
friend his name is Mabuse Hadi he was a
communication lecturer at Edinburgh
University for many years and he was
sharing with me about the meanings of
sounds of the letters in Arabic so don’t
take what I’m about to say is true just
take it like it might be useful cook go
back is life so you know we were talking
about the letter O and really this is
it’s like this in a way this sound this
vibration communicates this energy of
intense emotion which requires
vulnerability you could also say it
might be more feminine and then he
shared about the letter Cobb which
really communicates the energy of power
or confidence and you could say a more
masculine energy next slide so what
happens when you put those together you
get Hawk the right or truth and if you
flip them around you get ha
sense of purity or originality so I just
got back from Dakar is my first time I
attended a I was invited to attend a
Sufi gathering of the tiga Nia
Brotherhood or terra-cotta Jenny M and
that despite cultural differences I was
able to make make fast friends and was
really grateful to sit in on forums and
conversations where where where the
conversation was about how to integrate
things like art like creativity like
entrepreneurship like the awareness of
the environment to create a positive
message for you in contrast to religious
extremism
so regardless of who you are where you
live or what you believe what would it
be like if you had what you if you knew
you had what you truly needed in every
moment to achieve your visions and
dreams what what if a hundred million
people heard this message what if just 1
million people committed to doing their
best to live by these principles you
know what would happen if you committed
to leading your own life with confident
vulnerability as an example for your
family your business your country and
the leaders of the world
let’s walk together share this message
and let’s find out
yeah okay so what would it be like if
you had if you knew you had what you
truly need it in every moment to be able
to complete your visions and dreams what
would you think what would you do who
would you be
my name is Mathias my background is in
technology and web development I have a
background in and also as a venture
partner and I spent four years at Yale
University and in 2012 I left it all
behind I asked myself what do I truly
need to be a happy human and so I I
moved to an island off the Pacific coast
of the United States to find out if you
can go to
so so in the next slide please
okay so I ask myself well what do I
truly need and and and what was
preventing me from being able to ask
what what I truly needed to be able to
achieve my visions and and dreams and
goals what’s what’s stopping me so I
actually won one day I am I was on the
land and I
I even despite a pre-arranged agreement
to be able to you know do work trade for
food I felt uncomfortable asking even
for you know a piece of bread for a
friend of mine in his land I was on in
our our the main kitchen was in here
shared in her home because I was on if I
was I didn’t want to inconvenience her
and I thought you know I’ve had the
experience that I’ve had if if this
happened was something this small well
this must not just be an issue that’s
that’s with me so if you go back a
couple of slides the there was a recent
study in 2015 that looked at the death
rates of middle of white Americans
between ages 45 to 54 from from drugs
from alcohol and suicide and they
and basically it it the rates of those
tests actually increased a half
percentage from 2000 to 2014
even and it actually surpassed the death
rates of african-american African
Americans in that age group so why is
this important well there is a lady by
the name of a lady by the name of
grenade round a few several slides back
who who is a researcher in University of
Houston and she’s been studying shame
and vulnerability for 20 years and her
TED talk the power of vulnerability has
been seen now over twenty nine million
times and what she found out is that
vulnerability is required for connection
so back back on the island after
trimming some bamboo and having what
turns out to be a tasty piece of
whole-grain bread yeah I did muster up
the courage to ask for it I thought well
you know what is it true need and then
what came through was a true need is
simply that which is required for a
satisfying life and that which is
required to understand and to use your
full
potential so I knew this had to do with
leadership somehow I asked myself you
know what connect the great leaders of
all time people like Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Nelson Mandela or
even you know modern day business
leaders like Oprah Winfrey or Richard
Branson or Elon Musk
but more importantly what is the thing
that each of us can do to embody that
sense of leadership – so then I see this
distinction a definition of a true
leader which I shared in the workshop in
the spring of 2013 there was a retired
Army commander named Gregory stone that
was present and he appreciated what I
had to say I however I did not expect
him to stand up in front of 250 leaders
at the closing ceremony of that weekend
gathering
and said in Chariton that I would put
mathias definition of a true leader on
page 1 of the army manual and I was
floored because and this was really
important because to me this signified
is that this was tapping into something
more universal here I was a kind of a
tech technical mystic type guy and this
message resonated with a leader
seemingly on the other end of the scale
or the spectrum so if you’re ready to
write here it is the definition of a
true leaders that came to me is simply
next slide someone who is authentically
aligned with themselves there we go
someone who has a vision and someone who
knows what they truly need and is able
to ask for it and receive from both
themselves and others
so January 13 2013 I woke up cold
freezing my tent I’ve been in a year for
had mold it out and I realized I had
been a hypocrite
I hadn’t really told anybody I had slept
in a tent for a year I mean why would
people think
right but more importantly more
importantly I hadn’t asked for what I
truly needed and so one agonizing
blogpost later I did and I was really
floored by the response from different
friends on social media
and one of those responses actually
included an offer for a new tent go
figure
so you know I was clear that at that
point I needed to take these principles
and embody them myself
first before I would share them in the
rest of the rest of the world so I did I
you could say I took risks I put my
reputation on the line and I was
unreasonable with myself and others in
my requests I was able to crowdfund my
way from the northwest to the southwest
and I tell you miracle
happened which I sheriff out in my
upcoming memoir about this time which
would be available later on this year so
I made it across the desert from the
southwest to San Diego I gave my last
three dollars on an offering plate and
ended up penniless on the beach that was
actually a hundred and forty four days
later exactly as I found out looking
back to when I woke up from the you know
freezing on the island intent and
through that experience I really had the
visceral knowledge of hat that I had
what I truly needed in every moment to
fulfill my visions and dreams even when
it felt the hardest maybe if maybe
you’ve felt something like that too
so the next day I woke up and I actually
received my first Swiss client so you
may know I have actually been here in
Morocco for based here for over a year
now I’ve had the opportunity to support
you know leaders and young entrepreneurs
of in open innovation worked with
companies like cih Bank and Lee deck and
HPS and I’ve shared this message in
various forums and I’m really really
grateful that it has
well received you know there’s an
interesting connection with with Arabic
actually I was on the train for a
Marrakech to Casablanca and I met a new
friend his name is Mabuse Hadi he was a
communication lecturer at Edinburgh
University for many years and he was
sharing with me about the meanings of
sounds of the letters in Arabic so don’t
take what I’m about to say is true just
take it like it might be useful cook go
back is life so you know we were talking
about the letter O and really this is
it’s like this in a way this sound this
vibration communicates this energy of
intense emotion which requires
vulnerability you could also say it
might be more feminine and then he
shared about the letter Cobb which
really communicates the energy of power
or confidence and you could say a more
masculine energy next slide so what
happens when you put those together you
get Hawk the right or truth and if you
flip them around you get ha
sense of purity or originality so I just
got back from Dakar is my first time I
attended a I was invited to attend a
Sufi gathering of the tiga Nia
Brotherhood or terra-cotta Jenny M and
that despite cultural differences I was
able to make make fast friends and was
really grateful to sit in on forums and
conversations where where where the
conversation was about how to integrate
things like art like creativity like
entrepreneurship like the awareness of
the environment to create a positive
message for you in contrast to religious
extremism
so regardless of who you are where you
live or what you believe what would it
be like if you had what you if you knew
you had what you truly needed in every
moment to achieve your visions and
dreams what what if a hundred million
people heard this message what if just 1
million people committed to doing their
best to live by these principles you
know what would happen if you committed
to leading your own life with confident
vulnerability as an example for your
family your business your country and
the leaders of the world
let’s walk together share this message
and let’s find out
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