[Music]
[Music]
it was a hot and sticky afternoon it was
October in 2011 we were deep in the
interiors of Sarawak Tarawa is
Malaysia’s largest state the least
populated state in the country and sits
on the island of Borneo so we were deep
in the jungle at a longhouse in Kuala
bellingham koala billions the small town
and we were there to look for of all
things for innovations we heard of this
man called Bao son of Lumpur and he had
developed these amazing
paddy processing machines made from used
motorcycle parts but I’m not gonna tell
you about him I want to tell you about
this old lady I met at that very same
longhouse that very afternoon we were on
this journey that we had just started it
was called the generosity or innovation
walk and one of the things I wanted to
do was talk to the oldest living person
in the longhouse so we had a few
volunteers with us from the local
colleges they were from Polytechnic
Makkah and one of them Jackie spoke the
local language and she went out to
search for this oldest woman and why I
was looking for her was because my
mentor Anil Gupta whom I aspired to be
when I grow up not just in terms of
knowledge but also because he has a very
nice beard that would like to grow
anyway he said in his own journeys in
India with the National Innovation
foundation he invariably gets the best
nuggets of knowledge and insight from
the village elders that he meets so I
was excited to do this it was the first
time I’m meeting a village elder right
so she finds this old lady she must have
been 90 years old and from afar I see
her and she’s she’s gorgeous
you know she has this look of serenity
and wisdom and she was like Yoda from
Star Wars but prettier you know so I was
excited I wanted to talk to her so we
said our hellos and Jackie translated
and I was eager to get to this wisdom
part this knowledge part so I asked her
with bated breath I said
what do you do when somebody gets really
ill in the longhouse where do you take
them so the old lady she closes her eyes
she listens to the translation that
jackie is saying to her she takes a deep
breath and I’m wringing my hands right
this is gonna be great it’s gonna be
wisdom so she clears her throat I can’t
stand it she’s sitting on the floor so
I’m on my knees I’m in her face I’m like
give me the wisdom I didn’t say that of
course my Lucy I should do but I didn’t
say that but if that was in my heart I
wanted to say that but she clears her
throat she goes in TBC young Sackett
goompa wrong play Bower and Joon yeong’s
a kidney occur and she looks at Jackie
and all of us look at Jackie and Jackie
clears her throat and she translates if
someone gets really sick in this long
house we convene the elders and we will
take the old person to and she looks
back at the old woman we look back at
the old woman
where do you take her where do you take
them and she smiles and she goes to her
hospital so when I what I was a little
bit disappointed with that but I took it
as it was showing how far we had come as
a nation in the 60 short years that we
have been independent 99 days ago we
celebrated Malaysia’s sixtieth
Independence Day and in 60 short years
an old lady who lives in deep in the
interiors of Sarawak who was born way
before independence instinctively falls
back on the Malaysian healthcare system
if something goes really really bad
right so this is a good sign for us this
journey that we were on Judah University
started in 2011 when the then minister
of science technology and innovation dr.
Maximus on kili in early 2011 in January
or February visited India and he met up
with Professor Anil Gupta in Ahmedabad
and he saw firsthand the amazing work
that the National Innovation foundation
of India did by going through to the
interiors of India
searching for innovations and when he
came back he told me is that as if we
need to emulate this we need to put up
this program in Malaysia and find
innovations in our own countryside and
I’m like sir do you realize that they
walk by foot 200 over kilometers over
ten days and you know how Malaysians
hate to walk right if you ever been to a
popular shopping complex or restaurant
you know that the parking spots right in
front of the door but no full people are
double or triple Park and they put their
numbers on the dashboard right if you
call if you’re blocked and you look 50
feet down there’s 50,000 empty parking
based simulations don’t like to walk
there’s a national program to make
Malaysians walk so I’m like how am I
gonna get people to walk 200 kilometers
boss and it goes don’t worry as if you
can Malaysian eyes so Malaysian eyes I
did we ditched the walking part we got
air-conditioned SUVs and four-by-fours
they slept in sleeping bags in tents and
yeah we’re not going to sleep in
sleeping tents right so we got
air-conditioned hotel rooms with hot
showers but not withstanding the
creature comforts that we had we managed
to discover thousands of innovations in
our countryside so much so that I am so
proud to be Malaysians because we are
all so creative and innovative of course
we not only looked for all people in
this journey of ours we actually as a
matter of fact went out of our way to
talk to young people we went to 142
schools we trained over 300 teachers in
our innovation process 700 / youths like
Jackie came along on our walks and
helped us on this journey and at the end
of the day we reached twenty three
thousand three hundred and thirty-seven
school children and I’m so amazed at the
creativity and innovation that I
personally met that I am sure and I’m
certain in the hearts of my hearts that
our country Malaysia will become a great
nation leading the world if only our
youth are given the freedom and the
ability to explore their creativity and
translate their innovation to something
great two shining examples of this youth
creativity are these young women there
are 15
years old when I met them Amanda and
tevia they won a design competition that
we held and they had a new improved
cockroach trap so we took their idea and
we built it all the way up to an
industrial scale prototype and even
today as far as I know there lies there
it’s still up there if you want to build
this if you have a company to build this
new and improved cockroach trap you can
make a lot of money I believe because it
feels a huge gap in the in the
marketplace so in the six years that I
spent combing the nation to look for
innovations I discovered that they come
in all shapes and sizes right you can’t
pigeonhole what innovator somebody who
is creative looks like Hasina Kunta he
lives in Sabah and ran out she went to a
Kota Bharu Blanton actually to learn to
become a religious school teacher and
she taught for a few years as Anastasia
but then she discovered a way to take a
traditional Doosan delicacy – how and
process it in such a way that it became
more palatable and more delicious to a
much wider audience so now she sells it
widely throughout Sabah even here in the
peninsula she even exports it to
countries like the Philippines and now
today she makes more than 10 times what
she used to make as an estas ah by
selling this delicacy nor as Minh here
is from Quincy and KL and he developed
this board game called heroes it teaches
people how to prepare for disasters
which we never think about so he tours
the country with organizations like
mercy Malaysia the Red Crescent Society
to teach people about this how do we
prepare ourselves and our families in
our nation to be ready for natural
disasters people like Rosana Musa who
left a dream job she was an artist’s
assistant so all she did was help her
boss fly around the world have shows and
exhibitions and that’s her job but she
left that to pursue her own artistic
vision she was a ceramics artist so she
went back to her hometown in Malacca
and her grandmother gave her a small
plot of land in what used to be a paddy
field and she opened a studio called the
bending studio which today produces
amazing world-class ceramics but in that
process she also developed this small
kiln to fire up her ceramics and she
made it herself with easy to find
materials it was portable and it costs a
fraction of what she would have had to
pay if she would buy this kiln from
overseas this man’s name is Sathya Cong
he built this paddy threshing machine
he’s a self-taught car mechanic and he
has a small car workshop in Cunningham
but he built this machine because those
that are imported are so expensive and
he thought he could do it better which
he did so he built this machine it works
better faster and is much much cheaper
than the models that you could buy if
you were to buy it from overseas so
there are many types of innovators and
one other man I’d like to tell you about
his name is adenine Li and adenine li
told me that he live or he used to sleep
in the sidecar of his parents motorcycle
his parents were fruit sellers in wet
markets around Kuala Lumpur and possible
in Petaling Street so he would sleep
there he said so when he finished high
school which he didn’t do very well
he failed basically all subjects he went
into the business failure after failure
after failure he lost all his money
selling fruit because he didn’t he’d he
realized that it was the model that
needed to be changed so he founded the
MBG Fruit Company
now MB G is a premium fruit seller
located in premium shopping malls around
our country and even in the region and
today he sells in excess of 2 million
ringgit of fruit every single day not
bad for a kid who used to sleep in a
sidecar of his mom’s motorcycle he’s
also very tall I don’t know if that’s
because of the fruit that he eats 3
lessons that I learned more like
characteristics of successful grassroots
innovators from the
thousands that I meant I realized that
there’s these three characteristics that
differentiate them from the rest of us
at number one is that they are crazy
crazy persistent they never give up they
can’t give up they won’t give up they
keep going this names man is Philip us
Johnny and when I first met him in his
home we clicked immediately because we
have the same love for music we’re about
the same age he was telling me about a
story of him learning to learn the
saxophone about 50 18 years ago and his
friend moved out of town bringing the
saxophone with him he was heartbroken
the malays have a saying mechanic on
young man dita bossa which aptly
describes this feeling of heart
brokenness
you eat but you don’t get full and you
take a shower but did you know you don’t
get wet so he said he spent a whole
night sleepless thinking about how do I
get my hands on another saxophone and he
said he even thought about stealing it
but because he was a staunch Christian
the Bible says thou shalt not steal I
will not steal but I will make one he
decided so then very next morning he
started to find whatever tubular objects
he could find PVC pipes metal pipes
brass pipes plastic pipes that didn’t
work he tried to carve one out of wood
that didn’t work so finally around his
house grew abundantly bamboo so he cut
down a few stalks and he managed to
build one after four or five years that
instrument finally made some sound which
he said sounded like a dog about to die
and it was so bad but then he kept on I
mean any normal person would give up at
that point but he kept going and he kept
going in 10 years after that he now
sounds like this
my son thought I’m a balloon
so that’s silico standing he has now
performed in many many cities around the
world he even cut a song with a popular
in the nation singer backing him up on
his instrument that he calls the Sun
pudding and he’s just an amazing amazing
guy he sells his instruments online but
he only makes a few of them a year
because it takes a lot of effort to even
build one and that’s not what he wants
to do the second characteristic that I
found was that people who are inventive
and innovative like this are quilt
makers and I’m by that I don’t mean that
they saw their own quilt some of them do
but they take whatever it is on hand and
they make something amazing out of it
many of us live our lives as jigsaw
puzzle solvers you know what I mean
there’s ten thousand piece jigsaw and
we’re almost solving it and there’s one
piece left and your mom’s vacuum cleaner
sucked it up what you do right you can’t
solve the puzzle and we live our lives
like that and we waiting for our
professor our lecturer
our mom or dad or boyfriend/girlfriend
to give us this one exact piece that we
need and if we don’t have it we say hey
I can’t solve the problem but these guys
take whatever it is on hand and make
something amazing
just like Reus Mira Romney here she’s a
he’s a nurse in Perley it’s the smallest
state in malaysia and she waged the war
against this thing that’s a IV stand
because she said so many doctors and
nurses trip over them in the small
hospital rooms that we have in our
country so she developed a hook to hang
over the curtain railing at first she
made it with whatever she had on hand
finally she paid a metal worker to do it
when we found her she had a working
prototype and now we’ve built a medical
grade product and we’ve were testing it
out in several hospitals around the
country and I say this was much loved
but innovators are crazy right they’re
nuts in every village around the country
and there I say in every country around
the world there are people who are we
feel are crazy they sit in their
workshops or in the garages and they
make stuff up and they don’t join
community events they don’t go to
weddings they don’t talk too much and
they’re crazy so this guy but Suman I
love him
is a typical village crazy guy but he
built something quite amazing there’s
these hand drums called compound and
I’ll just talk over this video so they
can play these compounds typically are
covered with animal hide from goats or
cows and you hit it and you make a drum
out of it covering that hand drum and it
is now used widely around the country we
actually bought many many units from him
and sent it to Russia around the country
for them to test now so this is now
widely used developed by a man who was
so scared to talk to us when we first
met him that he sat on the floor
quiet literally too terrified to open
his mouth but now he’s singing on video
so thanks by soo much so there’s 10 3
truths that I’ve discovered that I feel
would improve your cognitive toolkits if
you took it home with you and number one
is that innovators come in all shapes
and sizes it could be any one of you
right and you can meet anyone on the
street in the market in the deep
interiors of our country do not
underestimate them professor Anil Gupta
has this amazing saying it goes the
minds on the margins are not marginal
minds think about it number two take
these three characteristics persistence
quilt-making going crazy once in a while
I know you tepee kids that go crazy
often but you know keep it within you
but if you do these three things you
you’re you’re persistent you take
whatever is it on it is on in hand to
build amazing stuff and you break the
norm challenge the norms once in a while
I think we will all improve our lives if
we do this and number three we need to
look for the unexpected you need to have
an open mind and an open heart and have
the ability to find something new
wherever it is you are but ladies and
gentlemen there’s one place that we
offer
overlooked and that can be the source of
amazing innovations and that is right
here within your own hearts and within
your own minds what if you could solve
cancer what if you could solve the
problem of the broken food chain in the
world that sees half of the world
throwing away half of their good food
directly to garbage dumps when the other
half sleep every night hungry
what kind of fairness is there what if
we could all solve these problems that
is within us so ladies and gentlemen I
leave you with a chorus of my one of my
favorite songs for my favorite artist
maybe if you’ll help me get a beat going
here I’m looking at the man in the
mirror I’m telling him to change his
ways no message could’ve been and he
came up if you want to make the world a
better place you gotta look at yourself
and then you make that change thank you
very much
[Applause]
you
[Music]
[Music]
it was a hot and sticky afternoon it was
October in 2011 we were deep in the
interiors of Sarawak Tarawa is
Malaysia’s largest state the least
populated state in the country and sits
on the island of Borneo so we were deep
in the jungle at a longhouse in Kuala
bellingham koala billions the small town
and we were there to look for of all
things for innovations we heard of this
man called Bao son of Lumpur and he had
developed these amazing
paddy processing machines made from used
motorcycle parts but I’m not gonna tell
you about him I want to tell you about
this old lady I met at that very same
longhouse that very afternoon we were on
this journey that we had just started it
was called the generosity or innovation
walk and one of the things I wanted to
do was talk to the oldest living person
in the longhouse so we had a few
volunteers with us from the local
colleges they were from Polytechnic
Makkah and one of them Jackie spoke the
local language and she went out to
search for this oldest woman and why I
was looking for her was because my
mentor Anil Gupta whom I aspired to be
when I grow up not just in terms of
knowledge but also because he has a very
nice beard that would like to grow
anyway he said in his own journeys in
India with the National Innovation
foundation he invariably gets the best
nuggets of knowledge and insight from
the village elders that he meets so I
was excited to do this it was the first
time I’m meeting a village elder right
so she finds this old lady she must have
been 90 years old and from afar I see
her and she’s she’s gorgeous
you know she has this look of serenity
and wisdom and she was like Yoda from
Star Wars but prettier you know so I was
excited I wanted to talk to her so we
said our hellos and Jackie translated
and I was eager to get to this wisdom
part this knowledge part so I asked her
with bated breath I said
what do you do when somebody gets really
ill in the longhouse where do you take
them so the old lady she closes her eyes
she listens to the translation that
jackie is saying to her she takes a deep
breath and I’m wringing my hands right
this is gonna be great it’s gonna be
wisdom so she clears her throat I can’t
stand it she’s sitting on the floor so
I’m on my knees I’m in her face I’m like
give me the wisdom I didn’t say that of
course my Lucy I should do but I didn’t
say that but if that was in my heart I
wanted to say that but she clears her
throat she goes in TBC young Sackett
goompa wrong play Bower and Joon yeong’s
a kidney occur and she looks at Jackie
and all of us look at Jackie and Jackie
clears her throat and she translates if
someone gets really sick in this long
house we convene the elders and we will
take the old person to and she looks
back at the old woman we look back at
the old woman
where do you take her where do you take
them and she smiles and she goes to her
hospital so when I what I was a little
bit disappointed with that but I took it
as it was showing how far we had come as
a nation in the 60 short years that we
have been independent 99 days ago we
celebrated Malaysia’s sixtieth
Independence Day and in 60 short years
an old lady who lives in deep in the
interiors of Sarawak who was born way
before independence instinctively falls
back on the Malaysian healthcare system
if something goes really really bad
right so this is a good sign for us this
journey that we were on Judah University
started in 2011 when the then minister
of science technology and innovation dr.
Maximus on kili in early 2011 in January
or February visited India and he met up
with Professor Anil Gupta in Ahmedabad
and he saw firsthand the amazing work
that the National Innovation foundation
of India did by going through to the
interiors of India
searching for innovations and when he
came back he told me is that as if we
need to emulate this we need to put up
this program in Malaysia and find
innovations in our own countryside and
I’m like sir do you realize that they
walk by foot 200 over kilometers over
ten days and you know how Malaysians
hate to walk right if you ever been to a
popular shopping complex or restaurant
you know that the parking spots right in
front of the door but no full people are
double or triple Park and they put their
numbers on the dashboard right if you
call if you’re blocked and you look 50
feet down there’s 50,000 empty parking
based simulations don’t like to walk
there’s a national program to make
Malaysians walk so I’m like how am I
gonna get people to walk 200 kilometers
boss and it goes don’t worry as if you
can Malaysian eyes so Malaysian eyes I
did we ditched the walking part we got
air-conditioned SUVs and four-by-fours
they slept in sleeping bags in tents and
yeah we’re not going to sleep in
sleeping tents right so we got
air-conditioned hotel rooms with hot
showers but not withstanding the
creature comforts that we had we managed
to discover thousands of innovations in
our countryside so much so that I am so
proud to be Malaysians because we are
all so creative and innovative of course
we not only looked for all people in
this journey of ours we actually as a
matter of fact went out of our way to
talk to young people we went to 142
schools we trained over 300 teachers in
our innovation process 700 / youths like
Jackie came along on our walks and
helped us on this journey and at the end
of the day we reached twenty three
thousand three hundred and thirty-seven
school children and I’m so amazed at the
creativity and innovation that I
personally met that I am sure and I’m
certain in the hearts of my hearts that
our country Malaysia will become a great
nation leading the world if only our
youth are given the freedom and the
ability to explore their creativity and
translate their innovation to something
great two shining examples of this youth
creativity are these young women there
are 15
years old when I met them Amanda and
tevia they won a design competition that
we held and they had a new improved
cockroach trap so we took their idea and
we built it all the way up to an
industrial scale prototype and even
today as far as I know there lies there
it’s still up there if you want to build
this if you have a company to build this
new and improved cockroach trap you can
make a lot of money I believe because it
feels a huge gap in the in the
marketplace so in the six years that I
spent combing the nation to look for
innovations I discovered that they come
in all shapes and sizes right you can’t
pigeonhole what innovator somebody who
is creative looks like Hasina Kunta he
lives in Sabah and ran out she went to a
Kota Bharu Blanton actually to learn to
become a religious school teacher and
she taught for a few years as Anastasia
but then she discovered a way to take a
traditional Doosan delicacy – how and
process it in such a way that it became
more palatable and more delicious to a
much wider audience so now she sells it
widely throughout Sabah even here in the
peninsula she even exports it to
countries like the Philippines and now
today she makes more than 10 times what
she used to make as an estas ah by
selling this delicacy nor as Minh here
is from Quincy and KL and he developed
this board game called heroes it teaches
people how to prepare for disasters
which we never think about so he tours
the country with organizations like
mercy Malaysia the Red Crescent Society
to teach people about this how do we
prepare ourselves and our families in
our nation to be ready for natural
disasters people like Rosana Musa who
left a dream job she was an artist’s
assistant so all she did was help her
boss fly around the world have shows and
exhibitions and that’s her job but she
left that to pursue her own artistic
vision she was a ceramics artist so she
went back to her hometown in Malacca
and her grandmother gave her a small
plot of land in what used to be a paddy
field and she opened a studio called the
bending studio which today produces
amazing world-class ceramics but in that
process she also developed this small
kiln to fire up her ceramics and she
made it herself with easy to find
materials it was portable and it costs a
fraction of what she would have had to
pay if she would buy this kiln from
overseas this man’s name is Sathya Cong
he built this paddy threshing machine
he’s a self-taught car mechanic and he
has a small car workshop in Cunningham
but he built this machine because those
that are imported are so expensive and
he thought he could do it better which
he did so he built this machine it works
better faster and is much much cheaper
than the models that you could buy if
you were to buy it from overseas so
there are many types of innovators and
one other man I’d like to tell you about
his name is adenine Li and adenine li
told me that he live or he used to sleep
in the sidecar of his parents motorcycle
his parents were fruit sellers in wet
markets around Kuala Lumpur and possible
in Petaling Street so he would sleep
there he said so when he finished high
school which he didn’t do very well
he failed basically all subjects he went
into the business failure after failure
after failure he lost all his money
selling fruit because he didn’t he’d he
realized that it was the model that
needed to be changed so he founded the
MBG Fruit Company
now MB G is a premium fruit seller
located in premium shopping malls around
our country and even in the region and
today he sells in excess of 2 million
ringgit of fruit every single day not
bad for a kid who used to sleep in a
sidecar of his mom’s motorcycle he’s
also very tall I don’t know if that’s
because of the fruit that he eats 3
lessons that I learned more like
characteristics of successful grassroots
innovators from the
thousands that I meant I realized that
there’s these three characteristics that
differentiate them from the rest of us
at number one is that they are crazy
crazy persistent they never give up they
can’t give up they won’t give up they
keep going this names man is Philip us
Johnny and when I first met him in his
home we clicked immediately because we
have the same love for music we’re about
the same age he was telling me about a
story of him learning to learn the
saxophone about 50 18 years ago and his
friend moved out of town bringing the
saxophone with him he was heartbroken
the malays have a saying mechanic on
young man dita bossa which aptly
describes this feeling of heart
brokenness
you eat but you don’t get full and you
take a shower but did you know you don’t
get wet so he said he spent a whole
night sleepless thinking about how do I
get my hands on another saxophone and he
said he even thought about stealing it
but because he was a staunch Christian
the Bible says thou shalt not steal I
will not steal but I will make one he
decided so then very next morning he
started to find whatever tubular objects
he could find PVC pipes metal pipes
brass pipes plastic pipes that didn’t
work he tried to carve one out of wood
that didn’t work so finally around his
house grew abundantly bamboo so he cut
down a few stalks and he managed to
build one after four or five years that
instrument finally made some sound which
he said sounded like a dog about to die
and it was so bad but then he kept on I
mean any normal person would give up at
that point but he kept going and he kept
going in 10 years after that he now
sounds like this
my son thought I’m a balloon
so that’s silico standing he has now
performed in many many cities around the
world he even cut a song with a popular
in the nation singer backing him up on
his instrument that he calls the Sun
pudding and he’s just an amazing amazing
guy he sells his instruments online but
he only makes a few of them a year
because it takes a lot of effort to even
build one and that’s not what he wants
to do the second characteristic that I
found was that people who are inventive
and innovative like this are quilt
makers and I’m by that I don’t mean that
they saw their own quilt some of them do
but they take whatever it is on hand and
they make something amazing out of it
many of us live our lives as jigsaw
puzzle solvers you know what I mean
there’s ten thousand piece jigsaw and
we’re almost solving it and there’s one
piece left and your mom’s vacuum cleaner
sucked it up what you do right you can’t
solve the puzzle and we live our lives
like that and we waiting for our
professor our lecturer
our mom or dad or boyfriend/girlfriend
to give us this one exact piece that we
need and if we don’t have it we say hey
I can’t solve the problem but these guys
take whatever it is on hand and make
something amazing
just like Reus Mira Romney here she’s a
he’s a nurse in Perley it’s the smallest
state in malaysia and she waged the war
against this thing that’s a IV stand
because she said so many doctors and
nurses trip over them in the small
hospital rooms that we have in our
country so she developed a hook to hang
over the curtain railing at first she
made it with whatever she had on hand
finally she paid a metal worker to do it
when we found her she had a working
prototype and now we’ve built a medical
grade product and we’ve were testing it
out in several hospitals around the
country and I say this was much loved
but innovators are crazy right they’re
nuts in every village around the country
and there I say in every country around
the world there are people who are we
feel are crazy they sit in their
workshops or in the garages and they
make stuff up and they don’t join
community events they don’t go to
weddings they don’t talk too much and
they’re crazy so this guy but Suman I
love him
is a typical village crazy guy but he
built something quite amazing there’s
these hand drums called compound and
I’ll just talk over this video so they
can play these compounds typically are
covered with animal hide from goats or
cows and you hit it and you make a drum
out of it covering that hand drum and it
is now used widely around the country we
actually bought many many units from him
and sent it to Russia around the country
for them to test now so this is now
widely used developed by a man who was
so scared to talk to us when we first
met him that he sat on the floor
quiet literally too terrified to open
his mouth but now he’s singing on video
so thanks by soo much so there’s 10 3
truths that I’ve discovered that I feel
would improve your cognitive toolkits if
you took it home with you and number one
is that innovators come in all shapes
and sizes it could be any one of you
right and you can meet anyone on the
street in the market in the deep
interiors of our country do not
underestimate them professor Anil Gupta
has this amazing saying it goes the
minds on the margins are not marginal
minds think about it number two take
these three characteristics persistence
quilt-making going crazy once in a while
I know you tepee kids that go crazy
often but you know keep it within you
but if you do these three things you
you’re you’re persistent you take
whatever is it on it is on in hand to
build amazing stuff and you break the
norm challenge the norms once in a while
I think we will all improve our lives if
we do this and number three we need to
look for the unexpected you need to have
an open mind and an open heart and have
the ability to find something new
wherever it is you are but ladies and
gentlemen there’s one place that we
offer
overlooked and that can be the source of
amazing innovations and that is right
here within your own hearts and within
your own minds what if you could solve
cancer what if you could solve the
problem of the broken food chain in the
world that sees half of the world
throwing away half of their good food
directly to garbage dumps when the other
half sleep every night hungry
what kind of fairness is there what if
we could all solve these problems that
is within us so ladies and gentlemen I
leave you with a chorus of my one of my
favorite songs for my favorite artist
maybe if you’ll help me get a beat going
here I’m looking at the man in the
mirror I’m telling him to change his
ways no message could’ve been and he
came up if you want to make the world a
better place you gotta look at yourself
and then you make that change thank you
very much
[Applause]
you
[Music]
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