[Music]
what is power if you close your eyes and
you imagine power what do you see I ask
the same question to the Oracle of
Google Images and this is what I got
power seems to be black and white
it’s about being strong power is a
puppeteer
it’s about prevailing on others power
looks like a white man ass word is a
symbol of power with this word you can
impose your will the sharper the better
it points to the sky the higher the
better a rocket is a symbol of power a
technological threat to lives the logic
of dominance empowered by progress power
stands out against the sky as far as
possible from the ground it has the
shape of a swerd a rocket a tower it is
solitary it is edgy and it is dangerous
the higher the better the bigger the
better
yes power can flourish but it does it
like a tree if it generates life it’s
just an externality of its natural will
to elevate throughout the centuries
power developed detached from the
grounded things of life life was
intentionally left behind not to hold
back growth but why is it like this when
did we agree that power would be about
supremacy strength and victory over
others
we ever have an alternative the oldest
longest face of human history the
prehistorical era that’s when the
current model of power took its roots in
a primary instant which kept us alive
our capacity to hunt and fight playing a
zero-sum game with other species yes
hunting was a zero-sum game there was no
possibility for a draw men either won or
lost and it meant survival or death this
powerful model wired man’s brain to the
point that fight or flight has become
its automatic response under stress and
today this template rules most of human
activities in the economic arena as in
the political one we unconsciously apply
a zero-sum game we compete we fight we
are the winner loose always of course
how could we disobey to such a deep and
historical instant and it’s a man’s
instant the reason why anthropos means
both human being and men is not the lack
of creativity of linguists there is
instead a deep truth here for many
centuries for millennia the history of
men overlapped with that of humanity
male where the creators and the
storytellers their instincts and
attitudes shaped the world as we see it
today
the human species carries the heritage
of millenia of manhood today women make
up 5% only of the economic
decision-making power in the world
despite being 50% of the population out
of 146 countries there are only 15
female leaders eight of whom are the
country’s first woman in power
the economic case for diversity has been
recently proven and women have been
invited to join the game as you can see
the doors of power are open programs are
teaching us how to behave in order to
fit quotas are freeing our seats men
asked to make an extra effort not to
follow the instinct in selecting peers
who look and behave like them women
received a sort of an invitation which
sounds a bit like you’re welcome
to play with us these are the rules
please don’t expect them to change
according to your talent and
inclinations so we may started joining
the game they could wear uniforms to fit
better and don’t disturb those who were
there before them women could learn to
run to compete to fight for the victory
they could even learn to play football
and to like it entitles to change a few
colors as long as they don’t discuss the
overall outfit of power and they don’t
pretend to wear time human garden in a
way or another they prove that they can
play the game they can sit at the table
and follow the rules but why so few of
them why despite the clear attempt to
drag women into power women are not
getting there it looks like they need a
damn good reason to leave their
comfortable minority seats and they’re
not getting it I remember when I became
a manager and the head of HR proud me
proudly told me that I could choose the
best car I was a bit puzzled because I
was not sharing his level of excitement
in fact I wasn’t there to get a bigger
car this is not a detail as it may seem
it is the storyteller who defines who
wins and what the reward is and if you
don’t like the reward
it may be because you didn’t write the
story and what’s worse these make you
less interested in writing it also in
the future why should women get in the
Malay to write the definition of power
the minority seat they had for the last
5000 years make it possible for them to
sit and complain leaving their hands
free to fix all those little things
around them which are not working free
not to sign contracts they don’t like
not to follow uncomfortable roads it
takes a lot of effort and motivation to
aspire to a power you don’t identify
maybe good old Nietzsche was right when
he said that in the end things must be
as they have and I hope ever with Ben
you see the effort that our society is
making is to leave things as they are by
asking women to adapt to current values
such as finance technology competition
well I hope that this effort fails
because what we have now what we have
today is a unique opportunity for our
species to evolve if women change
current values instead of being changed
by them I believe that our call as women
is not to join the game but to change
the game not to adapt to power not to
replace it but to enrich it up till
three thousand years before Christ pre
European civilizations were based on the
celebration of life they adored a
fertility goddess and as the sociologist
Ryan Esther said they believed in
linking more than in ranking there was
no ranking between men and women and
they completed each other in their joint
power doubled
these civilizations as Marilee stone
said it God was a woman the question now
for us women of the third millennium is
what is so different about women what is
the unique tribute that we can bring to
the world today well I believe that
women have a special legacy and that
today we have the possibility and the
women’s DNA is wired with birth and
caregiving a characteristic that enabled
the success of our species as much as
our capability to hunt or even more for
there is no other species in species in
nature that needs caregiving as much as
ours after birth and in no other species
as much as in ours being social is a
unique way to survive it’s always been
like this
it’s a very powerful template that women
can embody and project bringing a new
perspective to the world in year 2000 a
research by professor Shelly Taylor
revealed that women response in case of
threat is not to fight off light she
wrote from an evolutionary standpoint
women involved as caregivers in the
fight-or-flight model if women fight and
lose then they are living an infant
behind by the same token it’s a lot
harder to run away if you are carrying
an infant and you’re not going to leave
it behind so how do women react in case
of danger what is their own adaptive
model first research found that women
under stress typically spend more time
tending to their children this standing
instance is something so rooted in women
that they don’t need to be mothers
biologically to have it
second females in times of stress also
form tight social bonds to seek out for
others this is the so called befriending
in
since it means that in stressful
situations women forge alliances they
avoid fights they rely on
interdependencies that’s also women
primer instant how heavily do you see
that the fight or flight model influence
our current model of power how amazing
would it be to enrich it with a more
female tandem boyfriend attitude that’s
how women can contaminate power with
care and alliances a mother which comes
from an evolutionary template so close
and is it was how do we lay the
foundations of this power where do we
learn its practices and especially how
can we share them with the world there
are some very good news here we’ll have
everything already everything at hand
everything at home like all of you I
have a very engaging work and I return
home home every day at home my children
bring me back to the grounded meaning of
life they provide me with inspiration
and reality they complete my deepest
thoughts with the concrete details of
life they feed my heart with the love I
need to recharge being with them
connects me to the high and the low to
the small and the huge to the now and
the forever all this is impossible to
leave behind for a mother all this which
could be experienced by men and women
alike can reconnect power to the reality
of life giving it back the roots it’s
been missing for too long John Stuart
Mill said that there are no absolute
economic laws the choices we make are
political and at the end they are human
choices so things don’t have to be as
they’ve always been if we reconnect
power to life if we bring it closer to
reality magic things will help
in the newspapers we will read more
about the education of our children and
less about the latest results of a
financial trade we shall stop
considering normal that it takes a day
to a football player
to earn what a school teacher earns in a
year fan clubs will appear where people
will cheer for the end of poverty with
the same passion and energy we see today
for the final match of the Champions
League I can’t wait for the day we will
stop considering war as an expression of
power and start celebrating a power
which is about life again bring in life
Bank into power that’s how women can
change the world this power resonates
with women from the very deep roots of
who we are calling us through our
responsibility towards life which cannot
be limited only to our households
anymore we have to play this game and
because we want adapt to it we will make
it better for everybody still similar to
men and more similar to women we are not
called to do this because it’s fair not
because women should be represented this
is not about helping women it’s about
helping the world through women thank you
what is power if you close your eyes and
you imagine power what do you see I ask
the same question to the Oracle of
Google Images and this is what I got
power seems to be black and white
it’s about being strong power is a
puppeteer
it’s about prevailing on others power
looks like a white man ass word is a
symbol of power with this word you can
impose your will the sharper the better
it points to the sky the higher the
better a rocket is a symbol of power a
technological threat to lives the logic
of dominance empowered by progress power
stands out against the sky as far as
possible from the ground it has the
shape of a swerd a rocket a tower it is
solitary it is edgy and it is dangerous
the higher the better the bigger the
better
yes power can flourish but it does it
like a tree if it generates life it’s
just an externality of its natural will
to elevate throughout the centuries
power developed detached from the
grounded things of life life was
intentionally left behind not to hold
back growth but why is it like this when
did we agree that power would be about
supremacy strength and victory over
others
we ever have an alternative the oldest
longest face of human history the
prehistorical era that’s when the
current model of power took its roots in
a primary instant which kept us alive
our capacity to hunt and fight playing a
zero-sum game with other species yes
hunting was a zero-sum game there was no
possibility for a draw men either won or
lost and it meant survival or death this
powerful model wired man’s brain to the
point that fight or flight has become
its automatic response under stress and
today this template rules most of human
activities in the economic arena as in
the political one we unconsciously apply
a zero-sum game we compete we fight we
are the winner loose always of course
how could we disobey to such a deep and
historical instant and it’s a man’s
instant the reason why anthropos means
both human being and men is not the lack
of creativity of linguists there is
instead a deep truth here for many
centuries for millennia the history of
men overlapped with that of humanity
male where the creators and the
storytellers their instincts and
attitudes shaped the world as we see it
today
the human species carries the heritage
of millenia of manhood today women make
up 5% only of the economic
decision-making power in the world
despite being 50% of the population out
of 146 countries there are only 15
female leaders eight of whom are the
country’s first woman in power
the economic case for diversity has been
recently proven and women have been
invited to join the game as you can see
the doors of power are open programs are
teaching us how to behave in order to
fit quotas are freeing our seats men
asked to make an extra effort not to
follow the instinct in selecting peers
who look and behave like them women
received a sort of an invitation which
sounds a bit like you’re welcome
to play with us these are the rules
please don’t expect them to change
according to your talent and
inclinations so we may started joining
the game they could wear uniforms to fit
better and don’t disturb those who were
there before them women could learn to
run to compete to fight for the victory
they could even learn to play football
and to like it entitles to change a few
colors as long as they don’t discuss the
overall outfit of power and they don’t
pretend to wear time human garden in a
way or another they prove that they can
play the game they can sit at the table
and follow the rules but why so few of
them why despite the clear attempt to
drag women into power women are not
getting there it looks like they need a
damn good reason to leave their
comfortable minority seats and they’re
not getting it I remember when I became
a manager and the head of HR proud me
proudly told me that I could choose the
best car I was a bit puzzled because I
was not sharing his level of excitement
in fact I wasn’t there to get a bigger
car this is not a detail as it may seem
it is the storyteller who defines who
wins and what the reward is and if you
don’t like the reward
it may be because you didn’t write the
story and what’s worse these make you
less interested in writing it also in
the future why should women get in the
Malay to write the definition of power
the minority seat they had for the last
5000 years make it possible for them to
sit and complain leaving their hands
free to fix all those little things
around them which are not working free
not to sign contracts they don’t like
not to follow uncomfortable roads it
takes a lot of effort and motivation to
aspire to a power you don’t identify
maybe good old Nietzsche was right when
he said that in the end things must be
as they have and I hope ever with Ben
you see the effort that our society is
making is to leave things as they are by
asking women to adapt to current values
such as finance technology competition
well I hope that this effort fails
because what we have now what we have
today is a unique opportunity for our
species to evolve if women change
current values instead of being changed
by them I believe that our call as women
is not to join the game but to change
the game not to adapt to power not to
replace it but to enrich it up till
three thousand years before Christ pre
European civilizations were based on the
celebration of life they adored a
fertility goddess and as the sociologist
Ryan Esther said they believed in
linking more than in ranking there was
no ranking between men and women and
they completed each other in their joint
power doubled
these civilizations as Marilee stone
said it God was a woman the question now
for us women of the third millennium is
what is so different about women what is
the unique tribute that we can bring to
the world today well I believe that
women have a special legacy and that
today we have the possibility and the
women’s DNA is wired with birth and
caregiving a characteristic that enabled
the success of our species as much as
our capability to hunt or even more for
there is no other species in species in
nature that needs caregiving as much as
ours after birth and in no other species
as much as in ours being social is a
unique way to survive it’s always been
like this
it’s a very powerful template that women
can embody and project bringing a new
perspective to the world in year 2000 a
research by professor Shelly Taylor
revealed that women response in case of
threat is not to fight off light she
wrote from an evolutionary standpoint
women involved as caregivers in the
fight-or-flight model if women fight and
lose then they are living an infant
behind by the same token it’s a lot
harder to run away if you are carrying
an infant and you’re not going to leave
it behind so how do women react in case
of danger what is their own adaptive
model first research found that women
under stress typically spend more time
tending to their children this standing
instance is something so rooted in women
that they don’t need to be mothers
biologically to have it
second females in times of stress also
form tight social bonds to seek out for
others this is the so called befriending
in
since it means that in stressful
situations women forge alliances they
avoid fights they rely on
interdependencies that’s also women
primer instant how heavily do you see
that the fight or flight model influence
our current model of power how amazing
would it be to enrich it with a more
female tandem boyfriend attitude that’s
how women can contaminate power with
care and alliances a mother which comes
from an evolutionary template so close
and is it was how do we lay the
foundations of this power where do we
learn its practices and especially how
can we share them with the world there
are some very good news here we’ll have
everything already everything at hand
everything at home like all of you I
have a very engaging work and I return
home home every day at home my children
bring me back to the grounded meaning of
life they provide me with inspiration
and reality they complete my deepest
thoughts with the concrete details of
life they feed my heart with the love I
need to recharge being with them
connects me to the high and the low to
the small and the huge to the now and
the forever all this is impossible to
leave behind for a mother all this which
could be experienced by men and women
alike can reconnect power to the reality
of life giving it back the roots it’s
been missing for too long John Stuart
Mill said that there are no absolute
economic laws the choices we make are
political and at the end they are human
choices so things don’t have to be as
they’ve always been if we reconnect
power to life if we bring it closer to
reality magic things will help
in the newspapers we will read more
about the education of our children and
less about the latest results of a
financial trade we shall stop
considering normal that it takes a day
to a football player
to earn what a school teacher earns in a
year fan clubs will appear where people
will cheer for the end of poverty with
the same passion and energy we see today
for the final match of the Champions
League I can’t wait for the day we will
stop considering war as an expression of
power and start celebrating a power
which is about life again bring in life
Bank into power that’s how women can
change the world this power resonates
with women from the very deep roots of
who we are calling us through our
responsibility towards life which cannot
be limited only to our households
anymore we have to play this game and
because we want adapt to it we will make
it better for everybody still similar to
men and more similar to women we are not
called to do this because it’s fair not
because women should be represented this
is not about helping women it’s about
helping the world through women thank you
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