so I’m in one of our restaurants this is
years ago and I start to notice that
there’s this guy his name’s ray and he’s
coming in there every night for weeks
and there’s a peculiar thing about this
guy ray is that ray orders the same
exact thing every time it comes in two
cups of brown rice so I after a few
weeks of this I think I’m gonna help
this guy ray out and I tell I tell them
I say ray you know brown rice is easy
enough to make all you got to do is take
a cup of brown rice put it in a pot put
two cups of water in there a little bit
of salt bring it up to a boil put a lid
on it and simmer it for 40 minutes
brown rice well this works out really
great for rape because the good thing is
he was able to make brown rice for
himself but for me I never saw ray again
and we lost we lost a good customer
there you know so I don’t know about as
a business strategy if that was a great
idea but despite that that’s what I’m
here to talk to you today about about
giving and sharing and I believe I
believe this is the best time ever to do
that you know I’m a chef a father a
restaurateur but I’m here today as a
giver and I’m here to let you know these
three things I want you to take from
this talk you have something to share we
all have something to share this is and
this sharing is beneficial to each of us
and that right now is the best time in
history to share now you might not think
that you have a particular skill or an
idea or something worth sharing but
you’re wrong it can be as simple as
braiding your sister’s hair it can be as
specific is making a great pad thai it
can be as intimate as helping someone to
deal with depression now I came into
this truth on my own that I had
something to give years ago and we
started doing these cooking videos
online now we’re doing all these cooking
videos in my kitchen real simple things
and the thing about these videos that I
came to realize with this response that
was overwhelming on them
that there’s a lost generation of cooks
out there a lot of people don’t know how
to make rice make mashed potatoes simple
things well the one that was really
enlightening for me was this lunchbox
video that we did and you know I packed
my kids lunches every day and and I was
just going to help some people out
sharing these ideas and making vegan
grilled cheese is how to make ants on a
log like my mom did for me you know and
ants on a log if you don’t know or just
celery sticks with peanut butter and
raisins really simple stuff and the
response to these things was really
overwhelming you know I felt that need
out there and and how we were able to
satisfy this now even this frustrated
mom Kelly left this comment she said I
made the boiled baby potatoes for my son
and they’re a hit he’s a junior in high
school and hasn’t had a school made
lunch in his whole life I bought the
multicolored potatoes and the teens all
thought the purple ones were awesome and
fun loved getting new ideas Thanks well
you know I felt like because of
Technology I was able to be with Kelly
in her kitchen as she was packing those
lunches and I was able to help her out a
little bit you know I love to share and
sharing brings me great joy you know
mother Teresa said that it’s not how
much we give but how much love we put
into getting giving that matters and
that’s a person that was an expert on
giving she gave it all I love how she
equates giving with love because the
kind of giving I’m talking about the
kind of sharing I’m talking about is not
asking for anything in return not
expecting anything in return
giving only to lift others up but I do
believe there are benefits in giving for
all of us even the giver has benefits
I’ve done some research and I’ve seen
that that giving has has really great
contributions to longevity to heart
health to stress levels and if you’re
into getting high there’s something
called the helpers hi that’s pretty
awesome you know and it feels really
great to help somebody out
now we all have a need that someone can
help us with
and it’s this technology that’s helping
bring us together with people who can
help us
now in this next example of sharing I’m
on the receiving end of someone’s
generosity now like I said I’m a family
man my lovely wife Edlin married me in
2008 and then a couple years later 2010
my son is zekiel joined us and then in
2012
Eliana a little princess and then in
2013 the baby of the family joined us
and that’s big red now big red big red
my wife would agree that is the baby and
she’s a 2013 Ram 2500 and you may not
know this about her not my wife but the
truck she’s a little high-maintenance
and she needs her fuel filters changed
every 10,000 miles so after I purchased
this truck I find out that this is a
$450 ordeal well I go online like a lot
of people you know not wanting to have
to explain this $450 expense every
10,000 miles and I find that you can buy
the parts for $60 and do it yourself but
I’m not I’m a mechanic not at all so
high that’s where I find Jim the car guy
on YouTube now Jim is a master mechanic
he lives in Indiana and he doesn’t know
me from Adam Jim walks me through step
by step how to do this and I’m in my
driveway for 30 minutes I’ve got the
parts I’m changing the fuel filters out
all done I’m coming inside the house I’m
smelling of diesel my testosterone is
through the roof
I’m feeling like a real man and and it’s
all thanks to Jim and you can think of
all the thousands of people that this
guy has helped out he’s helped them save
$400 thousands of people but he’s also
helping get their trucks back on the
road you know and I hope now that at
least you’re thinking of something that
you can give and how how you could give
that because right now because of
technology this is the best time ever to
give there’s never been a time where
it’s faster more easy scaleo scalable
longer-lasting the giving you do today
can even outlive you it can be as simple
as pushing a button and sharing
something and it’s this technology that
has a beautiful way of bringing us
together and it’s allowing something as
simple as a video to impact thousands of
people in a meaningful way and this
technology can also bring us closer
together on an intimate level
and I think of my friend Andrew my
friend Andrew and his family were going
through a great tragedy or they lost his
three-year-old nephew and Andrew was
having a hard time dealing with that and
he was really having a hard time dealing
helping his brother cope with that loss
now Andrew turned to the Ted stage where
he found looked up and found a TED talk
by Kelly Lynn and Kelly Lynn is actually
a stand-up comedian but she has
first-hand experience with grief and
with the loss of her husband and Kelly
Lynn had seen all the misguided attempts
of people to comfort you when you’re
grieving and she says in her talk and
this is what Andrew was able to take
from it that if the least that you can
do is to sit beside someone as they’re
breathing but that’s a really powerful
thing to do and Andrew was able to take
that sit beside his brother and be with
him
that time and really be able to comfort
him now these aren’t just three random
incidents of modern-day sharing there’s
a great need out there a need that you
have the ability to help people with
just the math on these three things
is impressive Jim the car guys video
54,000 views my little vegan lunchbox
video 45,000 views Kelly Linds talk on
grief on the Ted stage three hundred and
seventy five thousand views just these
three things almost a half a million
people
we’re watching and I dare to say that
nobody was watching Jim the car guys
video for entertainment value you know
there is a great need out there and we
can help with that
now of course these times can be
challenging with the technology and
everything can this technology divide us
can it be a place to spread hatred can
it be a place to to separate us even or
can we use this technology to bring us
together to share love to help I believe
we can we must share our experiences to
leave this world a better place you know
Winston Churchill said we make a living
by what we get we make a life by what we
give you have something they can lift
someone up you can help somebody the way
I was able to able to help that
frustrated mom you can help somebody the
way Jim was able to help me in the
driveway with big red you can help
somebody the way Kelly Lynn was able to
help Andrew and his family it’s time to
get busy
giving it’s time there’s no better time
than right now to start and the Bible it
says that the harvest is great but the
workers are for you so let’s get to work
let’s start giving back let’s leave this
world a better place thank you for
sharing [Applause]
years ago and I start to notice that
there’s this guy his name’s ray and he’s
coming in there every night for weeks
and there’s a peculiar thing about this
guy ray is that ray orders the same
exact thing every time it comes in two
cups of brown rice so I after a few
weeks of this I think I’m gonna help
this guy ray out and I tell I tell them
I say ray you know brown rice is easy
enough to make all you got to do is take
a cup of brown rice put it in a pot put
two cups of water in there a little bit
of salt bring it up to a boil put a lid
on it and simmer it for 40 minutes
brown rice well this works out really
great for rape because the good thing is
he was able to make brown rice for
himself but for me I never saw ray again
and we lost we lost a good customer
there you know so I don’t know about as
a business strategy if that was a great
idea but despite that that’s what I’m
here to talk to you today about about
giving and sharing and I believe I
believe this is the best time ever to do
that you know I’m a chef a father a
restaurateur but I’m here today as a
giver and I’m here to let you know these
three things I want you to take from
this talk you have something to share we
all have something to share this is and
this sharing is beneficial to each of us
and that right now is the best time in
history to share now you might not think
that you have a particular skill or an
idea or something worth sharing but
you’re wrong it can be as simple as
braiding your sister’s hair it can be as
specific is making a great pad thai it
can be as intimate as helping someone to
deal with depression now I came into
this truth on my own that I had
something to give years ago and we
started doing these cooking videos
online now we’re doing all these cooking
videos in my kitchen real simple things
and the thing about these videos that I
came to realize with this response that
was overwhelming on them
that there’s a lost generation of cooks
out there a lot of people don’t know how
to make rice make mashed potatoes simple
things well the one that was really
enlightening for me was this lunchbox
video that we did and you know I packed
my kids lunches every day and and I was
just going to help some people out
sharing these ideas and making vegan
grilled cheese is how to make ants on a
log like my mom did for me you know and
ants on a log if you don’t know or just
celery sticks with peanut butter and
raisins really simple stuff and the
response to these things was really
overwhelming you know I felt that need
out there and and how we were able to
satisfy this now even this frustrated
mom Kelly left this comment she said I
made the boiled baby potatoes for my son
and they’re a hit he’s a junior in high
school and hasn’t had a school made
lunch in his whole life I bought the
multicolored potatoes and the teens all
thought the purple ones were awesome and
fun loved getting new ideas Thanks well
you know I felt like because of
Technology I was able to be with Kelly
in her kitchen as she was packing those
lunches and I was able to help her out a
little bit you know I love to share and
sharing brings me great joy you know
mother Teresa said that it’s not how
much we give but how much love we put
into getting giving that matters and
that’s a person that was an expert on
giving she gave it all I love how she
equates giving with love because the
kind of giving I’m talking about the
kind of sharing I’m talking about is not
asking for anything in return not
expecting anything in return
giving only to lift others up but I do
believe there are benefits in giving for
all of us even the giver has benefits
I’ve done some research and I’ve seen
that that giving has has really great
contributions to longevity to heart
health to stress levels and if you’re
into getting high there’s something
called the helpers hi that’s pretty
awesome you know and it feels really
great to help somebody out
now we all have a need that someone can
help us with
and it’s this technology that’s helping
bring us together with people who can
help us
now in this next example of sharing I’m
on the receiving end of someone’s
generosity now like I said I’m a family
man my lovely wife Edlin married me in
2008 and then a couple years later 2010
my son is zekiel joined us and then in
2012
Eliana a little princess and then in
2013 the baby of the family joined us
and that’s big red now big red big red
my wife would agree that is the baby and
she’s a 2013 Ram 2500 and you may not
know this about her not my wife but the
truck she’s a little high-maintenance
and she needs her fuel filters changed
every 10,000 miles so after I purchased
this truck I find out that this is a
$450 ordeal well I go online like a lot
of people you know not wanting to have
to explain this $450 expense every
10,000 miles and I find that you can buy
the parts for $60 and do it yourself but
I’m not I’m a mechanic not at all so
high that’s where I find Jim the car guy
on YouTube now Jim is a master mechanic
he lives in Indiana and he doesn’t know
me from Adam Jim walks me through step
by step how to do this and I’m in my
driveway for 30 minutes I’ve got the
parts I’m changing the fuel filters out
all done I’m coming inside the house I’m
smelling of diesel my testosterone is
through the roof
I’m feeling like a real man and and it’s
all thanks to Jim and you can think of
all the thousands of people that this
guy has helped out he’s helped them save
$400 thousands of people but he’s also
helping get their trucks back on the
road you know and I hope now that at
least you’re thinking of something that
you can give and how how you could give
that because right now because of
technology this is the best time ever to
give there’s never been a time where
it’s faster more easy scaleo scalable
longer-lasting the giving you do today
can even outlive you it can be as simple
as pushing a button and sharing
something and it’s this technology that
has a beautiful way of bringing us
together and it’s allowing something as
simple as a video to impact thousands of
people in a meaningful way and this
technology can also bring us closer
together on an intimate level
and I think of my friend Andrew my
friend Andrew and his family were going
through a great tragedy or they lost his
three-year-old nephew and Andrew was
having a hard time dealing with that and
he was really having a hard time dealing
helping his brother cope with that loss
now Andrew turned to the Ted stage where
he found looked up and found a TED talk
by Kelly Lynn and Kelly Lynn is actually
a stand-up comedian but she has
first-hand experience with grief and
with the loss of her husband and Kelly
Lynn had seen all the misguided attempts
of people to comfort you when you’re
grieving and she says in her talk and
this is what Andrew was able to take
from it that if the least that you can
do is to sit beside someone as they’re
breathing but that’s a really powerful
thing to do and Andrew was able to take
that sit beside his brother and be with
him
that time and really be able to comfort
him now these aren’t just three random
incidents of modern-day sharing there’s
a great need out there a need that you
have the ability to help people with
just the math on these three things
is impressive Jim the car guys video
54,000 views my little vegan lunchbox
video 45,000 views Kelly Linds talk on
grief on the Ted stage three hundred and
seventy five thousand views just these
three things almost a half a million
people
we’re watching and I dare to say that
nobody was watching Jim the car guys
video for entertainment value you know
there is a great need out there and we
can help with that
now of course these times can be
challenging with the technology and
everything can this technology divide us
can it be a place to spread hatred can
it be a place to to separate us even or
can we use this technology to bring us
together to share love to help I believe
we can we must share our experiences to
leave this world a better place you know
Winston Churchill said we make a living
by what we get we make a life by what we
give you have something they can lift
someone up you can help somebody the way
I was able to able to help that
frustrated mom you can help somebody the
way Jim was able to help me in the
driveway with big red you can help
somebody the way Kelly Lynn was able to
help Andrew and his family it’s time to
get busy
giving it’s time there’s no better time
than right now to start and the Bible it
says that the harvest is great but the
workers are for you so let’s get to work
let’s start giving back let’s leave this
world a better place thank you for
sharing [Applause]
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