I have a confession to make I have an
affliction a disease if you will it’s a
neurological disease it’s been often
characterized as obsessive-compulsive
data disorder I am a data geek I love
data I’m 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 and
frankly give ourselves the opportunity
to unlock the potential that’s in us all
without necessarily having to read books
to get there in fact sometimes after
paying some of my friends they say no
and you’re like a genius I’m no genius
I’m just a guy with a beard you know if
I was genius I would have figured out
how to grow hair but I’m not I’m just a
guy who loves information but but I it
it occurred to me well why are they
saying that I mean think we’ve all said
this right oh that was genius and you
have these genius moments and we’ve all
had it in our family with our friends
with people we work with etc and I
wondered to myself just what the heck is
genius right I mean to me this guy was a
genius well I called him to the highest
regard I also hold people like Leonardo
da Vinci as a genius I hold many musical
talented people as geniuses I I hold
young kids as geniuses 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
fellow is a little bit like Einstein and
it’s not because of the tongue licking
my head this was 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 neurological
challenge
he’s a special-needs child I’m much like
Albert Einstein he didn’t say his first
word till he was five
he has the diction today he’s seven
years old today but he has the diction
of an 18 month old to this day we don’t
know what neurological 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 did can I do
something about I’m a data guy you know
there’s gotta be something I can do in
this space to help him I work in in
clinical practice my backgrounds in
genetics I mean surely there’s something
that we can do there well I want to 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 got me off my ass to
actually do something about it
so I’m not sure if many of you familiar
with this place how many of you have
been to Barcelona yes wonderful
so another famous genius from that
region is a person by the name of Gaudi
right and we went to the Guardian Museum
if those who are familiar with this area
here it’s a pretty crowded area the Casa
Mia is a absolute architectural marvel
and in fact going inside is equally as
remarkable inside that place we had just
seen that place it was around June July
off for a couple of years ago you know
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’d gone to Starbucks and something
happened I’m not gonna tell you what
that is yet I’m gonna fast-forward and
I’m gonna tell you what got me motivated
and the tools that I use now to start
figuring out frankly can I use data to
code genius to create it and this humble
aspiration came at age 42 those of you
who read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
galaxy would know this answer quite well
everything happens at 42
if you haven’t reached there yet you
have so much left but for me 42 was a
really remarkable age it was a couple of
things it was the year that I also
discovered that after seeing some
physicians I had adult onset dyslexia I
try and those of you who’ve read my
sms’s my in my emails I feel so bad for
you and I apologize for that because
spellcheck has no chance against me
I like to talk in emojis that’s how I
convey emotions it’s how I convey my
sentences but that also made me struggle
it’s yet another data point right it
came to be crystallized what I stood for
and what I was going to do and wow I
lived my life now is really based on
five simple things in fact I today is my
day to on the job and I remember
interviewing for the job and they said
well here’s a job description I said
cleaned that this is what my job
description should be and I’ll tell you
it’s these five things I call it the
five C’s I teach my children this I’ve
taught numerous CEOs of Fortune 500
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 it’s a challenge you
know ask questions be curious
number two have the confidence and
audacity to ask difficult things to go
forward with your beliefs number three
challenge and also be willing to
challenged I think we are living in
times where clearly they’re challenging
but at the same time it’s appropriate
that we listen to those challenges we
try to understand what those challenges
are because somewhere in there maybe
something we missed which was actually a
viable opportunity number four being not
only curious but also being charitable
right for me knowledge is only as good
as those who get to leverage it beyond
yourself that’s why I love Ted right
ideas worth sharing this is all about us
conveying our knowledge to you and 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 and I thought if I apply that to my
personal life what more can be achieved
so I thought of another wise man person
by the name of Yoda and those of you
know me Norman very have another
addiction which is Star Wars and I
thought well if Yoda had to write an
equation around this what on earth would
have been again I’m not a math person so
please leave your mathematical comments
in the session and if you’re willing to
contribute to that please do I tried to
make it simple I thought learning ie the
facts the things we’re taught throughout
our life plus wisdom the mistakes we
learned over a period of time over that
period of time ie lifelong learning if
we leverage that as sort of the main
part of the equation
well all of those are frankly impacted
exponentially by the power of our
emotions I don’t believe there is a
single person in this world who says I
create decisions or I make decisions
based on fact that’s the biggest load of
BS you will ever hear nobody creates
decisions on fact they all created on
emotion we all do everyday we just like
to disguise it as fact as it as it fits
us I thought well you know if I couldn’t
if I could figure that out maybe maybe
there’s a chance of creating genius so I
thought to myself well okay well if we
could do that are there problem
statements that we need to start
resolving across all of those because I
need to put it in context right I mean
that looks great on a 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 and I
thought long and hard about what is my
son’s future going to look like what is
the next one or two years gonna look
like how is he gonna make friends how
are we gonna make friends of parents and
I can tell you have had horrible
experience where parents have walked
away from it simply because our child
was a special-needs child that pissed me
off and I thought I’m gonna fix this
if it’s the last thing I do so my son
would never have to suffer in this world
or be treated the same way just because
someone was ignorant to understand those
simple facts or use their emotions to
make that decision so some facts between
childhood to or to a young adult
we know the 31 million students are
failing out of school every day these
are all us statistics I figure I throw a
little math in here today we know that
32 million repeat a grade between
kindergarten to year 12 the one that
truly shocks me is that one student
drops out of high school every 26
seconds not good huh imagine if we could
even decrease that by a little bit where
maybe it’s every 5 seconds or every 10
seconds think of the Elon Musk’s that
we’d be creating think of the Einsteins
that have an opportunity in this world
to do something truly valuable with
their time but it hasn’t stopped their
adulthood is actually much more complex
and I want to pose an interesting thing
to you here I found as I was doing this
research that the way in which we
thought about education was completely
wrong that’s the easy thing to say right
what I’m talking about here is that
actually the two most fundamental human
rights that we are entitled to is
education and healthcare yet they seem
to be the two most underserved and as we
grow older our educational benefits are
complicated by health care benefits and
so I started to think beyond industry
could say I thought like a DJ right if I
mix these two together what would have
looked like right and so here are some
of the stats 90% of today’s work for
also lacking digital skills you know my
daughter asked me a question she said
Papa what do you do at work and I said I
make PowerPoint
you know sad think of all of those years
all of those things we’ve learned and
the best we can do is some stupid
PowerPoint right we need to rethink
education for older populations you know
you ever heard that phrase you can’t
teach an old dog new tricks
right so it comes from you’re trying to
teach in like kids and you get do you
like someone talking down to you
no I don’t like people treating me as an
adult working with me as an adult
teaching in an adult fashion the one
that worries me again right the big one
with all this digital technology stuff
the transition from education to health
care again dementia will be the number
one cause of depression and death in the
world pretty sobering right but we can
get past that you absolutely can get
past that for me when I thought about my
child you know maybe doing some
profession or some sort how could I
ensure that he’s getting dignity back in
his life it’s not about how much he
knows it’s not about what he applies to
but that he feels fulfillment in what
he’s doing I’ve spoken to elderly people
across the world as part of my health
care work that I do and one of the
number one thing they always ask is that
if could people just treat me like I’m a
human being right that’s all we’re
asking for so these are the challenges
right a pretty grand but I’m not afraid
of these grand things I think these are
all accomplishable and being a data guy
and a somewhat digital guy and I thought
well how can we impact that well I
collaborate with a bunch of weirdos like
myself and and I love those weirdos to
death because you know I told you dinner
at our place is just treat because you
really have some fantastic conversations
but in thinking through that I thought
of a water all the 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 thereby and tapping
into that emotion giving them the best
opportunity to fuel that emotion into
productive behavior or into productive
application and learning so first of all
the state of weather right I mean today
was sucked you know I’m telling my
daughter this morning oh my god it’s
like Seattle again you know it’s been
like this for a week but a little bit of
emotion 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 asset right if there’s
high pollen counts and you’re taking
medicine to ensure the antihistamines
are working in your system guess what
that numbs you a little bit you may not
be at your peak educational performance
when you do that
number two computer vision and this is
the stuff that my inner nerd comes out
on computer vision is the whole area of
being able to look at different areas of
the face to measure emotion and the feds
have been doing this extremely well over
a period of time other companies 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
particularly when you’re holding up a
device in front of you like this if
you’re special-needs however it’s
irrelevant because you’re like this or
if your mystic right number one signal
but this computer vision that can help
that – it’s called peripheral computing
you block out everything in the middle
and you only focus on the areas on the
edge right inner geek
speech alexxa all in our homes now
Commerce’s changing the way in which we
order buy purchases 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 them answers on
their homework only to find that it was
Alexa Google’s dead for them they don’t
use it and Google if you’re listening
right it’s dead the world’s changing
right wearables pulse ah meters this
kind of information
look we’re seeing a lot of good work
happening in this space in AI and
machine learning these other buzz words
that are thrown around cognitive
computing whatever the heck that’s
supposed to mean you know these are all
areas that are doing niche problems
really well but not looking at the
context under which emotional
applications are being developed so I
proposed to you actually the problem
that I am on a personal mission on it’s
not trying to solve the Internet of
Things I don’t care how many machines
are talking to one another I care about
what emotions they’re indicating in in
the children and the people that I care
about I care about can we actually
attract an emotive state and understand
what that emotion is at the point of
decision-making using all of that data
you know there was a buzz word floating
around a couple of years ago called big
data well guess what people where in the
world a freaking enormous data now and I
love that challenge of trying to solve
that problem because if we can solve
that problem we can solve the problem of
numerous kids who don’t have to fail
through high school imagine you have two
students first student wrote learner
passes filets no problems and I have an
issue with standardized testing that’s a
political issues but nothing to do with
how you learn you’ve got those issues
there but then you’ve got other students
where if you ask them the question they
can tell you just like that if you ask
him to write it down they fail it’s not
that they didn’t know the question but
why couldn’t they just use a speech
recognition system I let the computer
type out their answer for them
imagine if that child now instead of
getting a 60 now got a 80 or 90 they’re
emotive state would be happier their
willingness to learn would be happier
their ability to unlock their potential
would be significantly improved that’s
the goal guys that’s the goal so I
imagine a world this is when he was in
India we’d gone on a little trip and had
a very early age I’m sure you’ve seen it
maybe in diapers maybe not you know but
looking at the iPad and doing his own
investigation I think the one thing I
want to propose to you all that learning
and the use of AI and the use of
understanding emotions is not limited to
age so the first thing I want a mission
to do is stop these crappy Forbes 30
under 30 20 under 20 how about we start
getting 50 over 50 we all have the right
to be brilliant special and productive
doesn’t make you any less a genius
you’re all geniuses rolla geniuses in
our own moments we all have those
moments right what if we could just do
more now I’ll tell you what happened
that day
so I’ve sumed out the camera a little
bit here and you see we were first
located at the Starbucks right my son
only had two words in his diction at
that age he knew Baba God and he knew
this he had a point of things if he
wanted something there were the only two
words he knew at age four
my wife was ordering as kindly off some
Starbucks coffees and that particular
Starbucks is massively packed all the
time I was waiting outside with my
parents they have arthritis so they were
sitting on the park bench outside of me
we’re just waiting are waiting to check
in see if my wife wanted some help I
walked out thinking okay that’s cool she
doesn’t need help she was just getting
anything
a minute later heard a loud scream I
couldn’t figure out where that scream
came from I went inside the cafe and my
wife had fallen on the floor and she was
holding her head on the floor saying I
can’t find him I don’t know where he is
I I said what do you mean who are you
talking about people were looking at us
because they thought we were having an
argument
American accent Aussie accents difficult
to understand but we hadn’t no-one knew
we ran outside on the street ask my
youngest son and my daughter and my
parents have you seen they said no we
thought he was with you then I started
losing it I can I can’t tell you if you
ever lost your child just for even one
minute how much that feels like imagine
losing them for half an hour imagine
losing him in a country you can’t even
speak the language you don’t know how to
ask for help
except asking for help thankfully there
were people kind enough in Starbucks who
also ran around
we literally ran these blocks that you
seen in this picture
asking everyone in fact where he was
found was there in the arms of two kind
elderly people now at first I should
give you a pretext to this there was an
old lady who saw us on the street and
she said what happened what happened I
said look we’ve lost my son have you
seen him and the one thing you learned
by the way if you have a special-needs
child dressed them in the brightest
loudest colors possible because your
subliminal thinking will always remember
that even if you just pass them by and
thankfully she said yes he was wearing a
bright green jacket yes yes where is he
and she said well an old man is holding
him I was gonna beat the crap out of his
offline right but when I went there and
I saw him I crumbled my wife coupled I
ran across those streets literally I
could have stopped cars I didn’t care
how many cars
that Street but we found him anyone care
to guess what his first words were when
he saw us yeah okay all right
that to me was genius
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affliction a disease if you will it’s a
neurological disease it’s been often
characterized as obsessive-compulsive
data disorder I am a data geek I love
data I’m 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 and
frankly give ourselves the opportunity
to unlock the potential that’s in us all
without necessarily having to read books
to get there in fact sometimes after
paying some of my friends they say no
and you’re like a genius I’m no genius
I’m just a guy with a beard you know if
I was genius I would have figured out
how to grow hair but I’m not I’m just a
guy who loves information but but I it
it occurred to me well why are they
saying that I mean think we’ve all said
this right oh that was genius and you
have these genius moments and we’ve all
had it in our family with our friends
with people we work with etc and I
wondered to myself just what the heck is
genius right I mean to me this guy was a
genius well I called him to the highest
regard I also hold people like Leonardo
da Vinci as a genius I hold many musical
talented people as geniuses I I hold
young kids as geniuses 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
fellow is a little bit like Einstein and
it’s not because of the tongue licking
my head this was 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 neurological
challenge
he’s a special-needs child I’m much like
Albert Einstein he didn’t say his first
word till he was five
he has the diction today he’s seven
years old today but he has the diction
of an 18 month old to this day we don’t
know what neurological 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 did can I do
something about I’m a data guy you know
there’s gotta be something I can do in
this space to help him I work in in
clinical practice my backgrounds in
genetics I mean surely there’s something
that we can do there well I want to 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 got me off my ass to
actually do something about it
so I’m not sure if many of you familiar
with this place how many of you have
been to Barcelona yes wonderful
so another famous genius from that
region is a person by the name of Gaudi
right and we went to the Guardian Museum
if those who are familiar with this area
here it’s a pretty crowded area the Casa
Mia is a absolute architectural marvel
and in fact going inside is equally as
remarkable inside that place we had just
seen that place it was around June July
off for a couple of years ago you know
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’d gone to Starbucks and something
happened I’m not gonna tell you what
that is yet I’m gonna fast-forward and
I’m gonna tell you what got me motivated
and the tools that I use now to start
figuring out frankly can I use data to
code genius to create it and this humble
aspiration came at age 42 those of you
who read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
galaxy would know this answer quite well
everything happens at 42
if you haven’t reached there yet you
have so much left but for me 42 was a
really remarkable age it was a couple of
things it was the year that I also
discovered that after seeing some
physicians I had adult onset dyslexia I
try and those of you who’ve read my
sms’s my in my emails I feel so bad for
you and I apologize for that because
spellcheck has no chance against me
I like to talk in emojis that’s how I
convey emotions it’s how I convey my
sentences but that also made me struggle
it’s yet another data point right it
came to be crystallized what I stood for
and what I was going to do and wow I
lived my life now is really based on
five simple things in fact I today is my
day to on the job and I remember
interviewing for the job and they said
well here’s a job description I said
cleaned that this is what my job
description should be and I’ll tell you
it’s these five things I call it the
five C’s I teach my children this I’ve
taught numerous CEOs of Fortune 500
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 it’s a challenge you
know ask questions be curious
number two have the confidence and
audacity to ask difficult things to go
forward with your beliefs number three
challenge and also be willing to
challenged I think we are living in
times where clearly they’re challenging
but at the same time it’s appropriate
that we listen to those challenges we
try to understand what those challenges
are because somewhere in there maybe
something we missed which was actually a
viable opportunity number four being not
only curious but also being charitable
right for me knowledge is only as good
as those who get to leverage it beyond
yourself that’s why I love Ted right
ideas worth sharing this is all about us
conveying our knowledge to you and 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 and I thought if I apply that to my
personal life what more can be achieved
so I thought of another wise man person
by the name of Yoda and those of you
know me Norman very have another
addiction which is Star Wars and I
thought well if Yoda had to write an
equation around this what on earth would
have been again I’m not a math person so
please leave your mathematical comments
in the session and if you’re willing to
contribute to that please do I tried to
make it simple I thought learning ie the
facts the things we’re taught throughout
our life plus wisdom the mistakes we
learned over a period of time over that
period of time ie lifelong learning if
we leverage that as sort of the main
part of the equation
well all of those are frankly impacted
exponentially by the power of our
emotions I don’t believe there is a
single person in this world who says I
create decisions or I make decisions
based on fact that’s the biggest load of
BS you will ever hear nobody creates
decisions on fact they all created on
emotion we all do everyday we just like
to disguise it as fact as it as it fits
us I thought well you know if I couldn’t
if I could figure that out maybe maybe
there’s a chance of creating genius so I
thought to myself well okay well if we
could do that are there problem
statements that we need to start
resolving across all of those because I
need to put it in context right I mean
that looks great on a 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 and I
thought long and hard about what is my
son’s future going to look like what is
the next one or two years gonna look
like how is he gonna make friends how
are we gonna make friends of parents and
I can tell you have had horrible
experience where parents have walked
away from it simply because our child
was a special-needs child that pissed me
off and I thought I’m gonna fix this
if it’s the last thing I do so my son
would never have to suffer in this world
or be treated the same way just because
someone was ignorant to understand those
simple facts or use their emotions to
make that decision so some facts between
childhood to or to a young adult
we know the 31 million students are
failing out of school every day these
are all us statistics I figure I throw a
little math in here today we know that
32 million repeat a grade between
kindergarten to year 12 the one that
truly shocks me is that one student
drops out of high school every 26
seconds not good huh imagine if we could
even decrease that by a little bit where
maybe it’s every 5 seconds or every 10
seconds think of the Elon Musk’s that
we’d be creating think of the Einsteins
that have an opportunity in this world
to do something truly valuable with
their time but it hasn’t stopped their
adulthood is actually much more complex
and I want to pose an interesting thing
to you here I found as I was doing this
research that the way in which we
thought about education was completely
wrong that’s the easy thing to say right
what I’m talking about here is that
actually the two most fundamental human
rights that we are entitled to is
education and healthcare yet they seem
to be the two most underserved and as we
grow older our educational benefits are
complicated by health care benefits and
so I started to think beyond industry
could say I thought like a DJ right if I
mix these two together what would have
looked like right and so here are some
of the stats 90% of today’s work for
also lacking digital skills you know my
daughter asked me a question she said
Papa what do you do at work and I said I
make PowerPoint
you know sad think of all of those years
all of those things we’ve learned and
the best we can do is some stupid
PowerPoint right we need to rethink
education for older populations you know
you ever heard that phrase you can’t
teach an old dog new tricks
right so it comes from you’re trying to
teach in like kids and you get do you
like someone talking down to you
no I don’t like people treating me as an
adult working with me as an adult
teaching in an adult fashion the one
that worries me again right the big one
with all this digital technology stuff
the transition from education to health
care again dementia will be the number
one cause of depression and death in the
world pretty sobering right but we can
get past that you absolutely can get
past that for me when I thought about my
child you know maybe doing some
profession or some sort how could I
ensure that he’s getting dignity back in
his life it’s not about how much he
knows it’s not about what he applies to
but that he feels fulfillment in what
he’s doing I’ve spoken to elderly people
across the world as part of my health
care work that I do and one of the
number one thing they always ask is that
if could people just treat me like I’m a
human being right that’s all we’re
asking for so these are the challenges
right a pretty grand but I’m not afraid
of these grand things I think these are
all accomplishable and being a data guy
and a somewhat digital guy and I thought
well how can we impact that well I
collaborate with a bunch of weirdos like
myself and and I love those weirdos to
death because you know I told you dinner
at our place is just treat because you
really have some fantastic conversations
but in thinking through that I thought
of a water all the 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 thereby and tapping
into that emotion giving them the best
opportunity to fuel that emotion into
productive behavior or into productive
application and learning so first of all
the state of weather right I mean today
was sucked you know I’m telling my
daughter this morning oh my god it’s
like Seattle again you know it’s been
like this for a week but a little bit of
emotion 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 asset right if there’s
high pollen counts and you’re taking
medicine to ensure the antihistamines
are working in your system guess what
that numbs you a little bit you may not
be at your peak educational performance
when you do that
number two computer vision and this is
the stuff that my inner nerd comes out
on computer vision is the whole area of
being able to look at different areas of
the face to measure emotion and the feds
have been doing this extremely well over
a period of time other companies 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
particularly when you’re holding up a
device in front of you like this if
you’re special-needs however it’s
irrelevant because you’re like this or
if your mystic right number one signal
but this computer vision that can help
that – it’s called peripheral computing
you block out everything in the middle
and you only focus on the areas on the
edge right inner geek
speech alexxa all in our homes now
Commerce’s changing the way in which we
order buy purchases 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 them answers on
their homework only to find that it was
Alexa Google’s dead for them they don’t
use it and Google if you’re listening
right it’s dead the world’s changing
right wearables pulse ah meters this
kind of information
look we’re seeing a lot of good work
happening in this space in AI and
machine learning these other buzz words
that are thrown around cognitive
computing whatever the heck that’s
supposed to mean you know these are all
areas that are doing niche problems
really well but not looking at the
context under which emotional
applications are being developed so I
proposed to you actually the problem
that I am on a personal mission on it’s
not trying to solve the Internet of
Things I don’t care how many machines
are talking to one another I care about
what emotions they’re indicating in in
the children and the people that I care
about I care about can we actually
attract an emotive state and understand
what that emotion is at the point of
decision-making using all of that data
you know there was a buzz word floating
around a couple of years ago called big
data well guess what people where in the
world a freaking enormous data now and I
love that challenge of trying to solve
that problem because if we can solve
that problem we can solve the problem of
numerous kids who don’t have to fail
through high school imagine you have two
students first student wrote learner
passes filets no problems and I have an
issue with standardized testing that’s a
political issues but nothing to do with
how you learn you’ve got those issues
there but then you’ve got other students
where if you ask them the question they
can tell you just like that if you ask
him to write it down they fail it’s not
that they didn’t know the question but
why couldn’t they just use a speech
recognition system I let the computer
type out their answer for them
imagine if that child now instead of
getting a 60 now got a 80 or 90 they’re
emotive state would be happier their
willingness to learn would be happier
their ability to unlock their potential
would be significantly improved that’s
the goal guys that’s the goal so I
imagine a world this is when he was in
India we’d gone on a little trip and had
a very early age I’m sure you’ve seen it
maybe in diapers maybe not you know but
looking at the iPad and doing his own
investigation I think the one thing I
want to propose to you all that learning
and the use of AI and the use of
understanding emotions is not limited to
age so the first thing I want a mission
to do is stop these crappy Forbes 30
under 30 20 under 20 how about we start
getting 50 over 50 we all have the right
to be brilliant special and productive
doesn’t make you any less a genius
you’re all geniuses rolla geniuses in
our own moments we all have those
moments right what if we could just do
more now I’ll tell you what happened
that day
so I’ve sumed out the camera a little
bit here and you see we were first
located at the Starbucks right my son
only had two words in his diction at
that age he knew Baba God and he knew
this he had a point of things if he
wanted something there were the only two
words he knew at age four
my wife was ordering as kindly off some
Starbucks coffees and that particular
Starbucks is massively packed all the
time I was waiting outside with my
parents they have arthritis so they were
sitting on the park bench outside of me
we’re just waiting are waiting to check
in see if my wife wanted some help I
walked out thinking okay that’s cool she
doesn’t need help she was just getting
anything
a minute later heard a loud scream I
couldn’t figure out where that scream
came from I went inside the cafe and my
wife had fallen on the floor and she was
holding her head on the floor saying I
can’t find him I don’t know where he is
I I said what do you mean who are you
talking about people were looking at us
because they thought we were having an
argument
American accent Aussie accents difficult
to understand but we hadn’t no-one knew
we ran outside on the street ask my
youngest son and my daughter and my
parents have you seen they said no we
thought he was with you then I started
losing it I can I can’t tell you if you
ever lost your child just for even one
minute how much that feels like imagine
losing them for half an hour imagine
losing him in a country you can’t even
speak the language you don’t know how to
ask for help
except asking for help thankfully there
were people kind enough in Starbucks who
also ran around
we literally ran these blocks that you
seen in this picture
asking everyone in fact where he was
found was there in the arms of two kind
elderly people now at first I should
give you a pretext to this there was an
old lady who saw us on the street and
she said what happened what happened I
said look we’ve lost my son have you
seen him and the one thing you learned
by the way if you have a special-needs
child dressed them in the brightest
loudest colors possible because your
subliminal thinking will always remember
that even if you just pass them by and
thankfully she said yes he was wearing a
bright green jacket yes yes where is he
and she said well an old man is holding
him I was gonna beat the crap out of his
offline right but when I went there and
I saw him I crumbled my wife coupled I
ran across those streets literally I
could have stopped cars I didn’t care
how many cars
that Street but we found him anyone care
to guess what his first words were when
he saw us yeah okay all right
that to me was genius
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