I am indeed mad I’m actually 100% mad
and by the end of this session I hope
all of you will be mad too with me a lot
of the people that are on this picture
here and even more they were stark
raving bloody mad all of them thought
they were crazy because they were
focused madness is not about being crazy
madness is about passion
madness is is about tenacity madness is
about the desire to do things mad people
are eccentric I am totally eccentric you
know what eccentric means eccentric
means of center we are not in the middle
we are out there we are the ones who
bring about change we are the ones who
bring about break the status code and
build the future but while we are doing
that we focus so hard on the outsides
we’d build originality we build
uniqueness we build absolutely the
brilliance in the genius of madness this
is why only the mad will thrive in the
future I’m gonna today’s topic is about
is about metamorphosis and what a
beautiful metaphor that we have to work
with so I request you over the next 1
minute or so to please just
immerse yourself in this video that is
going to follow and just feel that you
are actually that little caterpillar who
comes out of this egg
[Music]
this ladies and gentlemen is our perfect
metaphor for what we are going through
the transformation the metamorphosis
that we are going through in our world
we went through all of these stages and
as a caterpillar when I build this
little pooper the little chrysalis
around it it actually liquidized its
itself completely and then reforms and
comes out of this beautiful vibrant
blazing butterfly all of you have that
capacity and today we will talk about
exactly how you get there and then we’ll
into a journey and how this butterfly
flies thousands and thousands of miles
like you will I went on my metamorphosis
this was my little clumsy attempt at an
event when I launched my long-term
moonshot and that’s what it was and we
will talk a bit more about it towards
the end as we go forward what we had
what we see that humanity is at a
crossroads and what is happening here is
you can see that the technology charred
through because of Moore’s law and all
of these things is growing exponentially
while the rest of the things are not
keeping change keeping pace with that
change and that to me is the fundamental
shift that’s going on is we cannot keep
pace with the change of Technology while
this technology is merging with all the
things that humans are doing we need to
connect and we need to bring humanity
back into technology so what we are
actually doing over the last 30 40 50
years is putting technology into our
lives technology into our business
technology into everything else ladies
and gentlemen now it’s time to put
humanity back we need to be more human
than we were ever before and that is the
way forward and the way of the future we
look into it in depth because anything
and everything that can be digitized
automated will be but all of you are
young people
the teachers and the educators here what
will happen to serendipity what will
happen in chance what will happen to
playfulness if we just become robots all
we have is technology why is all this
happening let’s look at the technology
age and the left side of this chart you
will see 10 years ago all of the
companies were either oil companies or
financial services companies on the
right hand side now all the companies
except bar one but now even that has
taken over all of them are tech
companies 15 of the next 20 companies
are also technology companies and most
of them are from China and overseas so
this is the revolution that has taken
place and we are now being controlled by
technology do you recognize this image
this is IBM Watson it’s a cognitive
computer and artificial intelligence
engine that about three or four years
ago won at jeopardy now a lot of new
computers are winning also well when it
won at jeopardy what actually happened
is that artificial intelligence works on
the left side of the brain and every
single thing starts becoming perfectly a
position in in the AI engine so 25 years
ago the internet commoditized and
Democrat eyes knowledge today artificial
intelligence and computers like this are
commoditizing and Democrat izing
expertise so if you were a lawyer if you
were a doctor if you were an oncologist
you were here but if you’re a nurse or a
teacher you’re down here over the next
10 years this thing would start shifting
as automation AI technology and stuff
starts changing this will start
happening expertise will become less and
less relevant but humanity will start
coming in this side of the brain has to
grow this side of the brain is about
imagination
it’s about touch
feel humanity love affection it’s about
intuition it’s about all of those
wonderful things on the right side of
the brain we spend our time the school’s
learning about the left side of the
brain which is going to go away the
right side of the brain is where the
future is and that is one of the key
messages from this from this session
from this talk is in our metamorphosis
we need to build the right side of our
brain so what’s happening is that the
world is tilting the whole playing field
is tilting and in this playing field
people are moving towards Silicon Valley
and those kinds of companies the reason
is that we need to be more liquid we
need to be networked we need to be fast
paced we actually need to be mad we need
to be completely nuts to be able to live
and play in this playing field because
this ladies and gentlemen is our future
so as we move forward data has become
the new oil but I’m thinking a brains
our intelligence all that in here is the
fuel that’s driving us it’s the fuel
it’s the engine that’s driving at
everything in our lives
however trust and empathy right side
brain activities that is the currency of
the future not data but trust and that’s
one of the key lasting messages from
this session is this is how we will live
our future as this transition goes on
one of the things that happen which are
friendly dinosaur friends were not able
to do was to evolve properly so let’s
look at some companies and this was a
bit of research done by Babson College
in Boston where 75% of the companies in
the S&P 500 will no longer exist in the
year 2025 75% but even more interesting
50% of the companies that will replace
these 75% of the
deniz haven’t been born yet it is all to
play for because it takes now one to two
years for a company to go from zero to
ten billion dollars the speed of shift
and change it’s so fast that we cannot
live our normal lives you can’t just
normal cells in the middle we have to be
mad and we have to be on the outskirts
of that every industry is getting
disrupted some of them are have already
happened other than the process of
happening like the financial services
industry and so on and there are few
more that are going to be that are going
to change now in this environment the
people who are defending it are scared
like hell they’re stressed out but young
people like you this is the best time in
the world to live this is about
abundance and opportunity and this is
how we go forward so huge opportunities
in front of us my one of my professors
one of my gurus his name is professor
Marshall Goldsmith he’s the number one
leadership coach in the world and he
wrote this book what got you here will
not get you there there is now a
disconnect in the world because of the
speed of change but also going forward
we don’t even have a normal ladder this
is our ladder for the future this is the
ladder that you are going you guys are
going to be working with it’s not normal
so you have to be slightly crazy you
have to think like a surfer on top of a
wave those are the kinds of things and
those are the kinds of emotions that you
need to start feeling to be able to
thrive in the future these companies
were not able to do that Kodak died
guess what replaced by which company
Instagram because Kodak forgot the
business that they were in they thought
they were in the business of cameras and
film they were not they were in the
business of memories and moments
Instagram get sad and that’s why it
ended replacing it and a lot of
companies are there we also have some
amazing new companies coming in and they
have fundamentally changed the
businesses that
in a lot of them our tech companies and
they’re reorganizing the structure that
we are in so as we go forward we need to
now think about the word change
metamorphosis could be a word used that
change was hardwired and hard-coded in
our brains in a certain way we need to
throw that out and I don’t know you
can’t use the word change anymore call
it bazinga
I don’t care what you call it we cannot
think about change in the same way we
need to change the way we think about
change because that’s the only way to
thrive in the future in all of this we
throw in the Millennials they come in
and change the equation yet again the
Millennials are living with a lot of new
attributes and so on some of them call
it the me generation the narcissistic
generation that’s not a judgment factor
it’s just a view but the most important
thing is that they are different they
have different sets of values and and so
on these people these young people by
the year 2025 will be over 75% of the
working population so we need to take
them seriously more than that when they
were polled in terms of who would they
like to bank with they said oh we love
to bank with the people that we work
with today not big international banks
but we like Facebook we like Apple so
it’ll be Apple Bank and Facebook
insurance company and Amazon you know
mortgage services company so the whole
shift is taking place in that particular
direction
beyond that hardcore companies like
automobiles
81% of the people in in India and 74% of
the people in China say that they would
rather buy a car from a technology
company so basically software on wheels
so companies like Mercedes and BMW and
Toyota have an existential threat to the
absolute existence and survival in the
future what a fundamental shift that’s
going on what a metamorphosis that’s
going on all of this liquid ization
that’s taking place and
into a new butterfly as we go through
and while we are going through jobs will
change it’s not a human right anymore
it’s not about everybody should have a
job that’s the Industrial Age thinking
today we’re moving forward so anything
and everything that can be automated
will be but anything that cannot be like
trust and imagination and love and
affection and collaboration and all of
these things will be 100 times more
valuable therefore that’s the focus area
the question I ask ourselves ask all of
you who is in control
is it the robots were in control are we
in control that’s one of the key
questions that we have to ask while I
thought was presenting this a couple of
months ago a friend of mine she’s the
celebrated show jumper she’s a
prize-winning show jumper and she said I
get it because my beautiful horse is
five times bigger than me and about 50
times more powerful than me but I
control it I am in charge and that it
what’s happened so what we need to do is
start asking the questions who should
and what should be automated and what
should not be automated and these are
amongst of things that shouldn’t be
couple of practical suggestions and then
we will end I have something called the
60/40 20 rule that six-year-old people
are making decisions strategic decisions
and companies 40 year olds are executing
it and 20 year olds actually the
consumers and this is this disconnect is
far far far too great so what we need to
do is to do certain things I have a
mentor I have an older mentor but I have
a younger mentor my younger mentor is he
is 21 years old he’s a Chinese American
kid
when he was here doing an internship
with me I learned way more from him than
he ever learned from me so all of the
senior people in this room need and
should take a reverse mentor all of us
should go out and take an art class
rather than just going on holiday and
lying on the beach learn how to play a
musical instrument do something crazy do
something on the right side of the brain
that’s what we need to do and last but
not the least learn how to code run I
don’t write a simple algorithm learn and
understand how zeros and ones actually
work and I think those are amongst the
kind of things that we need to do as we
go forward so now I’ll end with my story
of metamorphosis a couple of years ago I
I sat down I did a mind map like most
good people do and I created what is
called a butterfly project and the
butterfly project is my moonshot way
beyond Mount Everest I’m going to the
moon ladies gentlemen and I am going to
the moon with a billion young people and
ending education but celebrating
learning learning how to learn learning
how thinking works learning how memory
works learning how comprehension works
because if we know how to learn the jobs
in 30 years from now are fine because
things are going to evolve in change we
are reaching a billion kids by the year
2025 and I’m working with Professor Tony
Buzan as part of this project because
this beautiful little butterfly the
monarch butterfly do you know that it
travels 3,000 miles from Canada to
Mexico every year stays there to the
summer and comes back if a little
butterfly can fly 3,000 miles and
survive and come back so can you look at
her journey going out there
[Music]
so my thesis only the mad will thrive
ladies and gentlemen go out and be mad
be crazy do wonderful things make a
difference in the world because I am
100% man
please be mad too and make their
difference thank you very much
[Applause]
and by the end of this session I hope
all of you will be mad too with me a lot
of the people that are on this picture
here and even more they were stark
raving bloody mad all of them thought
they were crazy because they were
focused madness is not about being crazy
madness is about passion
madness is is about tenacity madness is
about the desire to do things mad people
are eccentric I am totally eccentric you
know what eccentric means eccentric
means of center we are not in the middle
we are out there we are the ones who
bring about change we are the ones who
bring about break the status code and
build the future but while we are doing
that we focus so hard on the outsides
we’d build originality we build
uniqueness we build absolutely the
brilliance in the genius of madness this
is why only the mad will thrive in the
future I’m gonna today’s topic is about
is about metamorphosis and what a
beautiful metaphor that we have to work
with so I request you over the next 1
minute or so to please just
immerse yourself in this video that is
going to follow and just feel that you
are actually that little caterpillar who
comes out of this egg
[Music]
this ladies and gentlemen is our perfect
metaphor for what we are going through
the transformation the metamorphosis
that we are going through in our world
we went through all of these stages and
as a caterpillar when I build this
little pooper the little chrysalis
around it it actually liquidized its
itself completely and then reforms and
comes out of this beautiful vibrant
blazing butterfly all of you have that
capacity and today we will talk about
exactly how you get there and then we’ll
into a journey and how this butterfly
flies thousands and thousands of miles
like you will I went on my metamorphosis
this was my little clumsy attempt at an
event when I launched my long-term
moonshot and that’s what it was and we
will talk a bit more about it towards
the end as we go forward what we had
what we see that humanity is at a
crossroads and what is happening here is
you can see that the technology charred
through because of Moore’s law and all
of these things is growing exponentially
while the rest of the things are not
keeping change keeping pace with that
change and that to me is the fundamental
shift that’s going on is we cannot keep
pace with the change of Technology while
this technology is merging with all the
things that humans are doing we need to
connect and we need to bring humanity
back into technology so what we are
actually doing over the last 30 40 50
years is putting technology into our
lives technology into our business
technology into everything else ladies
and gentlemen now it’s time to put
humanity back we need to be more human
than we were ever before and that is the
way forward and the way of the future we
look into it in depth because anything
and everything that can be digitized
automated will be but all of you are
young people
the teachers and the educators here what
will happen to serendipity what will
happen in chance what will happen to
playfulness if we just become robots all
we have is technology why is all this
happening let’s look at the technology
age and the left side of this chart you
will see 10 years ago all of the
companies were either oil companies or
financial services companies on the
right hand side now all the companies
except bar one but now even that has
taken over all of them are tech
companies 15 of the next 20 companies
are also technology companies and most
of them are from China and overseas so
this is the revolution that has taken
place and we are now being controlled by
technology do you recognize this image
this is IBM Watson it’s a cognitive
computer and artificial intelligence
engine that about three or four years
ago won at jeopardy now a lot of new
computers are winning also well when it
won at jeopardy what actually happened
is that artificial intelligence works on
the left side of the brain and every
single thing starts becoming perfectly a
position in in the AI engine so 25 years
ago the internet commoditized and
Democrat eyes knowledge today artificial
intelligence and computers like this are
commoditizing and Democrat izing
expertise so if you were a lawyer if you
were a doctor if you were an oncologist
you were here but if you’re a nurse or a
teacher you’re down here over the next
10 years this thing would start shifting
as automation AI technology and stuff
starts changing this will start
happening expertise will become less and
less relevant but humanity will start
coming in this side of the brain has to
grow this side of the brain is about
imagination
it’s about touch
feel humanity love affection it’s about
intuition it’s about all of those
wonderful things on the right side of
the brain we spend our time the school’s
learning about the left side of the
brain which is going to go away the
right side of the brain is where the
future is and that is one of the key
messages from this from this session
from this talk is in our metamorphosis
we need to build the right side of our
brain so what’s happening is that the
world is tilting the whole playing field
is tilting and in this playing field
people are moving towards Silicon Valley
and those kinds of companies the reason
is that we need to be more liquid we
need to be networked we need to be fast
paced we actually need to be mad we need
to be completely nuts to be able to live
and play in this playing field because
this ladies and gentlemen is our future
so as we move forward data has become
the new oil but I’m thinking a brains
our intelligence all that in here is the
fuel that’s driving us it’s the fuel
it’s the engine that’s driving at
everything in our lives
however trust and empathy right side
brain activities that is the currency of
the future not data but trust and that’s
one of the key lasting messages from
this session is this is how we will live
our future as this transition goes on
one of the things that happen which are
friendly dinosaur friends were not able
to do was to evolve properly so let’s
look at some companies and this was a
bit of research done by Babson College
in Boston where 75% of the companies in
the S&P 500 will no longer exist in the
year 2025 75% but even more interesting
50% of the companies that will replace
these 75% of the
deniz haven’t been born yet it is all to
play for because it takes now one to two
years for a company to go from zero to
ten billion dollars the speed of shift
and change it’s so fast that we cannot
live our normal lives you can’t just
normal cells in the middle we have to be
mad and we have to be on the outskirts
of that every industry is getting
disrupted some of them are have already
happened other than the process of
happening like the financial services
industry and so on and there are few
more that are going to be that are going
to change now in this environment the
people who are defending it are scared
like hell they’re stressed out but young
people like you this is the best time in
the world to live this is about
abundance and opportunity and this is
how we go forward so huge opportunities
in front of us my one of my professors
one of my gurus his name is professor
Marshall Goldsmith he’s the number one
leadership coach in the world and he
wrote this book what got you here will
not get you there there is now a
disconnect in the world because of the
speed of change but also going forward
we don’t even have a normal ladder this
is our ladder for the future this is the
ladder that you are going you guys are
going to be working with it’s not normal
so you have to be slightly crazy you
have to think like a surfer on top of a
wave those are the kinds of things and
those are the kinds of emotions that you
need to start feeling to be able to
thrive in the future these companies
were not able to do that Kodak died
guess what replaced by which company
Instagram because Kodak forgot the
business that they were in they thought
they were in the business of cameras and
film they were not they were in the
business of memories and moments
Instagram get sad and that’s why it
ended replacing it and a lot of
companies are there we also have some
amazing new companies coming in and they
have fundamentally changed the
businesses that
in a lot of them our tech companies and
they’re reorganizing the structure that
we are in so as we go forward we need to
now think about the word change
metamorphosis could be a word used that
change was hardwired and hard-coded in
our brains in a certain way we need to
throw that out and I don’t know you
can’t use the word change anymore call
it bazinga
I don’t care what you call it we cannot
think about change in the same way we
need to change the way we think about
change because that’s the only way to
thrive in the future in all of this we
throw in the Millennials they come in
and change the equation yet again the
Millennials are living with a lot of new
attributes and so on some of them call
it the me generation the narcissistic
generation that’s not a judgment factor
it’s just a view but the most important
thing is that they are different they
have different sets of values and and so
on these people these young people by
the year 2025 will be over 75% of the
working population so we need to take
them seriously more than that when they
were polled in terms of who would they
like to bank with they said oh we love
to bank with the people that we work
with today not big international banks
but we like Facebook we like Apple so
it’ll be Apple Bank and Facebook
insurance company and Amazon you know
mortgage services company so the whole
shift is taking place in that particular
direction
beyond that hardcore companies like
automobiles
81% of the people in in India and 74% of
the people in China say that they would
rather buy a car from a technology
company so basically software on wheels
so companies like Mercedes and BMW and
Toyota have an existential threat to the
absolute existence and survival in the
future what a fundamental shift that’s
going on what a metamorphosis that’s
going on all of this liquid ization
that’s taking place and
into a new butterfly as we go through
and while we are going through jobs will
change it’s not a human right anymore
it’s not about everybody should have a
job that’s the Industrial Age thinking
today we’re moving forward so anything
and everything that can be automated
will be but anything that cannot be like
trust and imagination and love and
affection and collaboration and all of
these things will be 100 times more
valuable therefore that’s the focus area
the question I ask ourselves ask all of
you who is in control
is it the robots were in control are we
in control that’s one of the key
questions that we have to ask while I
thought was presenting this a couple of
months ago a friend of mine she’s the
celebrated show jumper she’s a
prize-winning show jumper and she said I
get it because my beautiful horse is
five times bigger than me and about 50
times more powerful than me but I
control it I am in charge and that it
what’s happened so what we need to do is
start asking the questions who should
and what should be automated and what
should not be automated and these are
amongst of things that shouldn’t be
couple of practical suggestions and then
we will end I have something called the
60/40 20 rule that six-year-old people
are making decisions strategic decisions
and companies 40 year olds are executing
it and 20 year olds actually the
consumers and this is this disconnect is
far far far too great so what we need to
do is to do certain things I have a
mentor I have an older mentor but I have
a younger mentor my younger mentor is he
is 21 years old he’s a Chinese American
kid
when he was here doing an internship
with me I learned way more from him than
he ever learned from me so all of the
senior people in this room need and
should take a reverse mentor all of us
should go out and take an art class
rather than just going on holiday and
lying on the beach learn how to play a
musical instrument do something crazy do
something on the right side of the brain
that’s what we need to do and last but
not the least learn how to code run I
don’t write a simple algorithm learn and
understand how zeros and ones actually
work and I think those are amongst the
kind of things that we need to do as we
go forward so now I’ll end with my story
of metamorphosis a couple of years ago I
I sat down I did a mind map like most
good people do and I created what is
called a butterfly project and the
butterfly project is my moonshot way
beyond Mount Everest I’m going to the
moon ladies gentlemen and I am going to
the moon with a billion young people and
ending education but celebrating
learning learning how to learn learning
how thinking works learning how memory
works learning how comprehension works
because if we know how to learn the jobs
in 30 years from now are fine because
things are going to evolve in change we
are reaching a billion kids by the year
2025 and I’m working with Professor Tony
Buzan as part of this project because
this beautiful little butterfly the
monarch butterfly do you know that it
travels 3,000 miles from Canada to
Mexico every year stays there to the
summer and comes back if a little
butterfly can fly 3,000 miles and
survive and come back so can you look at
her journey going out there
[Music]
so my thesis only the mad will thrive
ladies and gentlemen go out and be mad
be crazy do wonderful things make a
difference in the world because I am
100% man
please be mad too and make their
difference thank you very much
[Applause]
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