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so you’re gonna hear a lot of Big Ideas
today that is the theme of this event
big ideas from little America but what
if you didn’t have to have a big idea
what if every single thing you did had
an impact on the world around you what
if you could change the world from your
couch a lot of times we feel helpless to
these issues like we can’t make a
difference all of these huge causes that
we see we don’t feel like we can truly
make an impact I use the analogy of a
frog in a shallow tank and that frog
jumps and bumps its head it realizes
that it can’t jump that high it realizes
that it has limitations it realizes that
it can’t live to its full potential
that’s what our brain does it protects
us from bumping our heads protects us
from failure and when that does happen
we spend so much time looking around for
other solutions that we fail to look up
but what if the environment changes
that’s what I’m here to talk to you
about today when that environment does
change I’m a huge believer in the ripple
effect I believe that every single thing
we do can have a huge impact on the
world around us every decision we make
it’s important to those that we come
into contact with to illustrate that
we’re going to go through an example of
a project that I believe is truly
changing the world with these small
steps and then we’re going to discuss
four pillars that I think each of us can
use to make a difference in the world
today this is a virus X within Bob Way
this is what the virus equi looks like
on a map before the world was adequately
mapped before this area was adequately
represented on a map this what we had to
go off of this is a virus equiano map
today it’s a thriving community of about
50,000 people but looking at the map on
the left you would never know that that
right now a large portrait of the world
is not represented on any map and the
Red Cross the humanitarian OpenStreetMap
team Doctors Without Borders and the
British Red Cross started a program
called the missing maps to solve that
issue the map behind me represents the
portions of the world that are not
adequately represented on any map the
2018 you would expect that the world is
adequately met most of us just plug
someplace into our GPS and take off the
reason this is important is because
hundreds of thousands of people every
year are affected by natural disasters
outbreaks and other crises that cause
humanitarian services like the Red Cross
to have to step in maps are absolutely
essential to that process that’s the way
that we’re able to decide where the
resources go figure out how to
efficiently and effectively provide
the missing Maps project is three simple
steps we volunteers like myself
volunteers like yourself individuals all
over the world have satellite imaging
available to them on their computers
they simply trace the roads and
buildings on that satellite imaging
once that takes place that’s sent over
to the local areas where we’re trying to
provide relief to those vulnerable areas
and local volunteers there plug in the
information that is necessary to provide
relief to their own country once that
happens humanitarian services can
utilize that information three very
simple steps and changing the world
around us as we know it all over the
country all over the world there’s these
things called mapathon x’
and it’s groups and organizations that
get together and pick a vulnerable area
and map that complete area and make sure
that we have the proper resources to
provide disaster relief whenever it
becomes available or whenever it becomes
necessary or if you’re an introvert like
myself
could have yourself a couch at that you
can do this from your couch you can do
this from the comfort of your own home
for taking five minutes out of your
world out of your life to trace a line
to circle a building could mean that
family has access to clean water
even if hundreds of years from now the
ripple effect is real now I’m going to
discuss four pillars that I believe each
one of us can used to truly make a
difference in the world around us
vulnerability communication knowledge
and love to be vulnerable we have to be
allow our selves to completely open up
to other individuals and a lot of times
we don’t want to do that we try to hide
the bad things would confuse
vulnerability with insecurity and it’s
easy to do insecurity is believing
something negative about yourself
vulnerability is accepting it being
willing to move forward so many times we
see this as a weakness
and see this as something that we want
to hide one of my favorite quotes is
don’t compare your movie to someone
else’s highlight reel and it’s true we
all put the best of ourselves out there
I guarantee that the things that you put
out on social media aren’t going to be
your biggest struggles are the things
that you need help with allowing
ourselves to be vulnerable allowing
ourselves to accept help and allowing
ourselves to ask for help is the
catalyst to change one of my mentors
told me that the most powerful phrase
you can use is I have a problem and I
need help and I truly believe that which
takes us into our second pillar
communication often times we get crowd
we get so confused with the
communication that we have today it’s
the best era of communication we’ve ever
been in we have two billion people on
Facebook
one billion of those every single day
login we have great access to
communication but there’s also a crowd
you have to make sure that your message
is different from the next person make
sure that you’re personalizing and
finding the motivations of the people
that you’re trying to connect with one
of my favorite quotes is if you want to
build a ship don’t gather the men gather
the materials divide the work and give
orders teach them to yearn for the vast
and endless sea think about it if I
handed you a pile of wood and said hey
go build me a ship how motivated are you
but if I said I’ve climbed to the
highest mountain on our island I’ve
looked out beyond the horizon and what
I’ve seen is one of the most amazing
sights you could ever imagine beyond the
horizon is the cure to all of our
problems what begins to happen then then
the people are motivated to be out there
to build your ship that’s how ships are
built that’s how we get out to the past
and endless sea the third pillar is
knowledge and it doesn’t have to be some
specific knowledge or some expertise
that you have check out the missing Maps
project I don’t have to do anything more
than trace a simple line on a map and
I’m changing the world
pooling those resources together is one
of the most important things that we can
do to truly make change in our
vulnerability we have to realize that we
cannot change every issue ourselves we
cannot make huge changes without relying
on the power of the crowd in the fourth
pillar my favorite and probably the most
important love you can have all of the
vulnerability communication and
knowledge that you want but without the
love and compassion to put that into
action
means nothing one of my favorite
cartoons growing up was Captain Planet
and I realized that a lot of college
students don’t know who Captain Planet
is
so explain it he is this environmental
superhero and there’s five different
elements that form Captain Planet earth
wind fire water my favorite heart
I was watching old episodes of Captain
Planet and I did a little research on it
and found that Hart has absolutely no
superpowers
his only powers are empathy and
understanding
it’s a terrible superhero but all
throughout every episode Hart is
constantly trying to give the gang
information constantly trying to
communicate things to the other
planeteers but he’s smaller and weaker
than all of the other planet ears and
they don’t listen to him in the end of
almost every episode of Captain Planet
you realize that Hart was right all
along there’s truly a message in Captain
so once we put into practice those four
pillars vulnerability communication
knowledge and love we can truly change
the world look up the lids off how many
of you are willing to take that leap
thank you
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so you’re gonna hear a lot of Big Ideas
today that is the theme of this event
big ideas from little America but what
if you didn’t have to have a big idea
what if every single thing you did had
an impact on the world around you what
if you could change the world from your
couch a lot of times we feel helpless to
these issues like we can’t make a
difference all of these huge causes that
we see we don’t feel like we can truly
make an impact I use the analogy of a
frog in a shallow tank and that frog
jumps and bumps its head it realizes
that it can’t jump that high it realizes
that it has limitations it realizes that
it can’t live to its full potential
that’s what our brain does it protects
us from bumping our heads protects us
from failure and when that does happen
we spend so much time looking around for
other solutions that we fail to look up
but what if the environment changes
that’s what I’m here to talk to you
about today when that environment does
change I’m a huge believer in the ripple
effect I believe that every single thing
we do can have a huge impact on the
world around us every decision we make
it’s important to those that we come
into contact with to illustrate that
we’re going to go through an example of
a project that I believe is truly
changing the world with these small
steps and then we’re going to discuss
four pillars that I think each of us can
use to make a difference in the world
today this is a virus X within Bob Way
this is what the virus equi looks like
on a map before the world was adequately
mapped before this area was adequately
represented on a map this what we had to
go off of this is a virus equiano map
today it’s a thriving community of about
50,000 people but looking at the map on
the left you would never know that that
right now a large portrait of the world
is not represented on any map and the
Red Cross the humanitarian OpenStreetMap
team Doctors Without Borders and the
British Red Cross started a program
called the missing maps to solve that
issue the map behind me represents the
portions of the world that are not
adequately represented on any map the
2018 you would expect that the world is
adequately met most of us just plug
someplace into our GPS and take off the
reason this is important is because
hundreds of thousands of people every
year are affected by natural disasters
outbreaks and other crises that cause
humanitarian services like the Red Cross
to have to step in maps are absolutely
essential to that process that’s the way
that we’re able to decide where the
resources go figure out how to
efficiently and effectively provide
the missing Maps project is three simple
steps we volunteers like myself
volunteers like yourself individuals all
over the world have satellite imaging
available to them on their computers
they simply trace the roads and
buildings on that satellite imaging
once that takes place that’s sent over
to the local areas where we’re trying to
provide relief to those vulnerable areas
and local volunteers there plug in the
information that is necessary to provide
relief to their own country once that
happens humanitarian services can
utilize that information three very
simple steps and changing the world
around us as we know it all over the
country all over the world there’s these
things called mapathon x’
and it’s groups and organizations that
get together and pick a vulnerable area
and map that complete area and make sure
that we have the proper resources to
provide disaster relief whenever it
becomes available or whenever it becomes
necessary or if you’re an introvert like
myself
could have yourself a couch at that you
can do this from your couch you can do
this from the comfort of your own home
for taking five minutes out of your
world out of your life to trace a line
to circle a building could mean that
family has access to clean water
even if hundreds of years from now the
ripple effect is real now I’m going to
discuss four pillars that I believe each
one of us can used to truly make a
difference in the world around us
vulnerability communication knowledge
and love to be vulnerable we have to be
allow our selves to completely open up
to other individuals and a lot of times
we don’t want to do that we try to hide
the bad things would confuse
vulnerability with insecurity and it’s
easy to do insecurity is believing
something negative about yourself
vulnerability is accepting it being
willing to move forward so many times we
see this as a weakness
and see this as something that we want
to hide one of my favorite quotes is
don’t compare your movie to someone
else’s highlight reel and it’s true we
all put the best of ourselves out there
I guarantee that the things that you put
out on social media aren’t going to be
your biggest struggles are the things
that you need help with allowing
ourselves to be vulnerable allowing
ourselves to accept help and allowing
ourselves to ask for help is the
catalyst to change one of my mentors
told me that the most powerful phrase
you can use is I have a problem and I
need help and I truly believe that which
takes us into our second pillar
communication often times we get crowd
we get so confused with the
communication that we have today it’s
the best era of communication we’ve ever
been in we have two billion people on
one billion of those every single day
login we have great access to
communication but there’s also a crowd
you have to make sure that your message
is different from the next person make
sure that you’re personalizing and
finding the motivations of the people
that you’re trying to connect with one
of my favorite quotes is if you want to
build a ship don’t gather the men gather
the materials divide the work and give
orders teach them to yearn for the vast
and endless sea think about it if I
handed you a pile of wood and said hey
go build me a ship how motivated are you
but if I said I’ve climbed to the
highest mountain on our island I’ve
looked out beyond the horizon and what
I’ve seen is one of the most amazing
sights you could ever imagine beyond the
horizon is the cure to all of our
problems what begins to happen then then
the people are motivated to be out there
to build your ship that’s how ships are
built that’s how we get out to the past
and endless sea the third pillar is
knowledge and it doesn’t have to be some
specific knowledge or some expertise
that you have check out the missing Maps
project I don’t have to do anything more
than trace a simple line on a map and
I’m changing the world
pooling those resources together is one
of the most important things that we can
do to truly make change in our
vulnerability we have to realize that we
cannot change every issue ourselves we
cannot make huge changes without relying
on the power of the crowd in the fourth
pillar my favorite and probably the most
important love you can have all of the
vulnerability communication and
knowledge that you want but without the
love and compassion to put that into
action
means nothing one of my favorite
cartoons growing up was Captain Planet
and I realized that a lot of college
students don’t know who Captain Planet
is
so explain it he is this environmental
superhero and there’s five different
elements that form Captain Planet earth
wind fire water my favorite heart
I was watching old episodes of Captain
Planet and I did a little research on it
and found that Hart has absolutely no
superpowers
his only powers are empathy and
understanding
it’s a terrible superhero but all
throughout every episode Hart is
constantly trying to give the gang
information constantly trying to
communicate things to the other
planeteers but he’s smaller and weaker
than all of the other planet ears and
they don’t listen to him in the end of
almost every episode of Captain Planet
you realize that Hart was right all
along there’s truly a message in Captain
so once we put into practice those four
pillars vulnerability communication
knowledge and love we can truly change
the world look up the lids off how many
of you are willing to take that leap
thank you
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