when we think about our mind our
emotions and our ability to connect with
one another we don’t typically think
about technology but we should because
the future of the human mind is in fact
an exponential technology story and as
we navigate the future of work and
society we must harness technology to
assist us in putting out the fires of
the human mind in getting the skills in
place for social and emotional
well-being and for unlocking the bonus
levels of human cognition like many when
I look at the headlines these days I
feel a sense of urgency about the state
of the human mind but I also have a
great deal of optimism because of the
work that I’ll share with you today but
first I have to tell you a story and a
confession the story is this once upon a
time I ran operations for World of
Warcraft China for Blizzard
Entertainment one of the largest
branches of one of the largest video
games in the entire world this puts me
as a member of a very small Club of
people who have operated games at this
scale also because of the size of my
business this makes me or made me one of
the most senior women in video games
globally I was living the life in
Shanghai my apartment was in the New
York Times I had a very active social
life and this is the confession though I
was successful by all accounts I was
living with a very high level of
loneliness and a sadness about that that
I told phew
people about when I was very young I
made a decision based on child’s logic
that I thought that I would be alone and
that I would have to take care of myself
and so this hyper independence
compounded as I aged and I felt less and
less connected so when I read the
statistics about the loneliness epidemic
I get it
I really really get it from my
experience loneliness is not about how
many people you know how many friends
you have how many face-to-face
interactions you have it is everything
to do with how interconnected you feel
and so often many of us have made
decisions based on child’s logic but we
don’t often have a chance to break free
of those I’m very lucky I did and I did
it in southern Japan in a garden outside
of Kyoto somehow I found my way to have
a pasta meditation retreat and in ten
days I left happier than I had ever been
in my life and unafraid I now know that
the human mind grows fearless when the
chatter goes low and I now know that
when the noise goes down the ability to
connect with others goes up and I
remember how I felt in that moment when
I understood that and I thought that
maybe just maybe I wouldn’t be alone and
with that
the sadness lifts and I felt more alive
than I had in all of my years of
accomplishment and more live than I had
in all my travels and even in the ring
and I do what anyone who has been in a
prison of the mind does when they see a
break in the wall I go for it
and I fly out free first I want freedom
for all who I love and then I want it
for everyone for you like for us like
all of us and so this leads me to
psychology neuroscience and technology
psychology and neuroscience because I
really had to understand what happened
to me and also because I believe first
principles of the human condition will
always bring you back to the human mind
and then to technology because since it
is that force that takes what is scarce
and makes it abundant it also makes
things scaleable accessible and
affordable so why not also for the human
mind so I’m not an auto rejecter of
Technology being on the back end of Wow
I saw friendships and connections and
marriages and so I do believe from my
personal experience that it can bring
people together but it does need to be
better designed and it needs to be human
centered and so I ask the questions what
if it could support us mentally and
emotionally for happiness connection
meaning making emotional self-regulation
creativity imagination lowering our fear
raising our empathy compassion wisdom
so this led me to co-found the
transformative technology movement we
are a group of entrepreneurs and
innovators who leverage technology for
mental health emotional well-being at
human thriving
we’re in 69 countries and 450 cities and
we asked what if technology could help
us access our inner landscape to know
ourselves better than any outside
algorithm could we elevate the
well-being and flourishing of a billion
people by 2030 to billion by 2050 why
not so in order to take you through this
I’ve got to show you the spectrum of how
we see the human mind so on one side you
have what we call basic skills so these
need interventions for stress anxiety
depression the basic skills of life and
then in the middle we have what we call
the future of work skills and so these
are the social-emotional skills if you
look at any of the statistics about
what’s coming with the future of work
the things that people will need in
order to work in the future will be
things like collaboration communication
creativity those types of skills and so
in a world where all of the rote tasks
go away these skills will become
requirements and not luxuries so
emotional intelligence is going to
become a requirement and not a luxury
but what’s really scary is today we
expect people to pick these skills up
from the culture if you think about it
just think about it for a second the
most important skills for the future for
being compensated the future of work and
a future of automation we expect people
to pick these up from the culture which
is another word for luck did your
parents know it did you have a mentor
did you have a teacher did you have
someone a company did you have someone
who could teach you these things and so
this is a very
use of Technology it’s in the last
category is what we call future of life
this is expanding and enhancing our
abilities and our capacities to connect
with one another to sense one another as
we create together so we track 12
different areas of transformative
technology these are in various stages
of product ization but they’re all
coming emerging yes coming absolutely
and so what this means is we will be
able to use technology in order to
penetrate the higher levels of the
hierarchy now this also means that we
have to get the ethics privacy and data
sovereignty in place and I’m a big
advocate of that in other forums I’d
like to show you a map of how I see the
world which includes using the
exponential technologies to assess
amplify expand and connect how we can
support the human mind across all of
these areas to begin with though I’d
like you to imagine a little bit with me
imagine if you knew yourself better than
the ad sellers if you knew yourself
better than Facebook and if you had that
information available to you in an
interface that could allow you to chart
your course and expand into that and
imagine if we could amplify our best
teachers and our best therapists or
close distances in a ways that we can’t
even imagine that allow us to connect
more deeply with one another so think
about this as we go through the next
three steps so the first one level one
putting out the fires and I’m just gonna
very quickly show you a bunch of
different products really so that you
understand that this is real this is not
a theory this is real so today this
looks like meditation apps and stress
apps and heart rate variability apps
emotion recognition
tomorrow it looks like precision food
food subscriptions and haptics level two
is getting the skills in place so today
what that looks like is things like half
eye and HRV training there’s a company
that’s found a tie between heart rate
variability and rumination which is
incredibly exciting tomorrow that looks
like AI support
why can’t a I challenge our meaning
making meaning making is one of the most
important skills for success in life 3
unlocking the bonus levels so I spoke to
a woman who runs innovation for a
fortune 500 company and she said this
which I thought was amazing she says
that her team has to think of things
that no one has thought of yet and for
that she sees her role as their manager
as helping them access the best most
creative part of themselves and so what
that looks like today is AR and VR team
building where teams get to run
scenarios one after the next while being
coached or behavior tracking that really
this is the very early stage of getting
to the type of product I described where
you can really see who you are and use
it to optimize towards who you’d like to
be but tomorrow I think one of the most
profound and important discoveries we
will make is that we will understand
group flow and we will use technology to
witness then recreate at will the
cascade of bio signals that allow people
to have group flow and when that happens
it will completely change human society
it will change teams it will change
companies it will change families it
will change communities because we like
to be together the problem today is that
most of the people working on the human
mind are working in silos but we have to
elevate the maturity of the human mind
in order to live in this environment
that we have created
and so we very much need a challenge on
the human mind on the same level as some
of these other very worthy challenges we
need a challenge around human cognition
and mental and emotional well-being and
we need it so that we can inspire and
coordinate and at the very least share
insights and progress and this is so
that we can harness our brains
plasticity enhance our cognition refine
our behavior and elevate our minds
imagine a future where we can all get
past things that have happened to us
where we have the ability to deeply
connect with one another where we have
the ability to experience compassion to
give and receive love and to know that
we are not alone so join us build
transformative technologies if this is
your skill set
put it to this use build transformative
companies and call for a global
challenge alongside with us because this
is the great work of our time thank you
[Applause] you
emotions and our ability to connect with
one another we don’t typically think
about technology but we should because
the future of the human mind is in fact
an exponential technology story and as
we navigate the future of work and
society we must harness technology to
assist us in putting out the fires of
the human mind in getting the skills in
place for social and emotional
well-being and for unlocking the bonus
levels of human cognition like many when
I look at the headlines these days I
feel a sense of urgency about the state
of the human mind but I also have a
great deal of optimism because of the
work that I’ll share with you today but
first I have to tell you a story and a
confession the story is this once upon a
time I ran operations for World of
Warcraft China for Blizzard
Entertainment one of the largest
branches of one of the largest video
games in the entire world this puts me
as a member of a very small Club of
people who have operated games at this
scale also because of the size of my
business this makes me or made me one of
the most senior women in video games
globally I was living the life in
Shanghai my apartment was in the New
York Times I had a very active social
life and this is the confession though I
was successful by all accounts I was
living with a very high level of
loneliness and a sadness about that that
I told phew
people about when I was very young I
made a decision based on child’s logic
that I thought that I would be alone and
that I would have to take care of myself
and so this hyper independence
compounded as I aged and I felt less and
less connected so when I read the
statistics about the loneliness epidemic
I get it
I really really get it from my
experience loneliness is not about how
many people you know how many friends
you have how many face-to-face
interactions you have it is everything
to do with how interconnected you feel
and so often many of us have made
decisions based on child’s logic but we
don’t often have a chance to break free
of those I’m very lucky I did and I did
it in southern Japan in a garden outside
of Kyoto somehow I found my way to have
a pasta meditation retreat and in ten
days I left happier than I had ever been
in my life and unafraid I now know that
the human mind grows fearless when the
chatter goes low and I now know that
when the noise goes down the ability to
connect with others goes up and I
remember how I felt in that moment when
I understood that and I thought that
maybe just maybe I wouldn’t be alone and
with that
the sadness lifts and I felt more alive
than I had in all of my years of
accomplishment and more live than I had
in all my travels and even in the ring
and I do what anyone who has been in a
prison of the mind does when they see a
break in the wall I go for it
and I fly out free first I want freedom
for all who I love and then I want it
for everyone for you like for us like
all of us and so this leads me to
psychology neuroscience and technology
psychology and neuroscience because I
really had to understand what happened
to me and also because I believe first
principles of the human condition will
always bring you back to the human mind
and then to technology because since it
is that force that takes what is scarce
and makes it abundant it also makes
things scaleable accessible and
affordable so why not also for the human
mind so I’m not an auto rejecter of
Technology being on the back end of Wow
I saw friendships and connections and
marriages and so I do believe from my
personal experience that it can bring
people together but it does need to be
better designed and it needs to be human
centered and so I ask the questions what
if it could support us mentally and
emotionally for happiness connection
meaning making emotional self-regulation
creativity imagination lowering our fear
raising our empathy compassion wisdom
so this led me to co-found the
transformative technology movement we
are a group of entrepreneurs and
innovators who leverage technology for
mental health emotional well-being at
human thriving
we’re in 69 countries and 450 cities and
we asked what if technology could help
us access our inner landscape to know
ourselves better than any outside
algorithm could we elevate the
well-being and flourishing of a billion
people by 2030 to billion by 2050 why
not so in order to take you through this
I’ve got to show you the spectrum of how
we see the human mind so on one side you
have what we call basic skills so these
need interventions for stress anxiety
depression the basic skills of life and
then in the middle we have what we call
the future of work skills and so these
are the social-emotional skills if you
look at any of the statistics about
what’s coming with the future of work
the things that people will need in
order to work in the future will be
things like collaboration communication
creativity those types of skills and so
in a world where all of the rote tasks
go away these skills will become
requirements and not luxuries so
emotional intelligence is going to
become a requirement and not a luxury
but what’s really scary is today we
expect people to pick these skills up
from the culture if you think about it
just think about it for a second the
most important skills for the future for
being compensated the future of work and
a future of automation we expect people
to pick these up from the culture which
is another word for luck did your
parents know it did you have a mentor
did you have a teacher did you have
someone a company did you have someone
who could teach you these things and so
this is a very
use of Technology it’s in the last
category is what we call future of life
this is expanding and enhancing our
abilities and our capacities to connect
with one another to sense one another as
we create together so we track 12
different areas of transformative
technology these are in various stages
of product ization but they’re all
coming emerging yes coming absolutely
and so what this means is we will be
able to use technology in order to
penetrate the higher levels of the
hierarchy now this also means that we
have to get the ethics privacy and data
sovereignty in place and I’m a big
advocate of that in other forums I’d
like to show you a map of how I see the
world which includes using the
exponential technologies to assess
amplify expand and connect how we can
support the human mind across all of
these areas to begin with though I’d
like you to imagine a little bit with me
imagine if you knew yourself better than
the ad sellers if you knew yourself
better than Facebook and if you had that
information available to you in an
interface that could allow you to chart
your course and expand into that and
imagine if we could amplify our best
teachers and our best therapists or
close distances in a ways that we can’t
even imagine that allow us to connect
more deeply with one another so think
about this as we go through the next
three steps so the first one level one
putting out the fires and I’m just gonna
very quickly show you a bunch of
different products really so that you
understand that this is real this is not
a theory this is real so today this
looks like meditation apps and stress
apps and heart rate variability apps
emotion recognition
tomorrow it looks like precision food
food subscriptions and haptics level two
is getting the skills in place so today
what that looks like is things like half
eye and HRV training there’s a company
that’s found a tie between heart rate
variability and rumination which is
incredibly exciting tomorrow that looks
like AI support
why can’t a I challenge our meaning
making meaning making is one of the most
important skills for success in life 3
unlocking the bonus levels so I spoke to
a woman who runs innovation for a
fortune 500 company and she said this
which I thought was amazing she says
that her team has to think of things
that no one has thought of yet and for
that she sees her role as their manager
as helping them access the best most
creative part of themselves and so what
that looks like today is AR and VR team
building where teams get to run
scenarios one after the next while being
coached or behavior tracking that really
this is the very early stage of getting
to the type of product I described where
you can really see who you are and use
it to optimize towards who you’d like to
be but tomorrow I think one of the most
profound and important discoveries we
will make is that we will understand
group flow and we will use technology to
witness then recreate at will the
cascade of bio signals that allow people
to have group flow and when that happens
it will completely change human society
it will change teams it will change
companies it will change families it
will change communities because we like
to be together the problem today is that
most of the people working on the human
mind are working in silos but we have to
elevate the maturity of the human mind
in order to live in this environment
that we have created
and so we very much need a challenge on
the human mind on the same level as some
of these other very worthy challenges we
need a challenge around human cognition
and mental and emotional well-being and
we need it so that we can inspire and
coordinate and at the very least share
insights and progress and this is so
that we can harness our brains
plasticity enhance our cognition refine
our behavior and elevate our minds
imagine a future where we can all get
past things that have happened to us
where we have the ability to deeply
connect with one another where we have
the ability to experience compassion to
give and receive love and to know that
we are not alone so join us build
transformative technologies if this is
your skill set
put it to this use build transformative
companies and call for a global
challenge alongside with us because this
is the great work of our time thank you
[Applause] you
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