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[Applause]
last one
three guys walk into a bar I’ve always
wanted to start a talk like that
and that’s funny isn’t it three guys
walk into a bar it’s funny I’m give you
the punchline yet it’s funny because I
didn’t say 14 guys walk into a bar or
six women walk into a bar I said three
and three is funny three is a magic
number and I am here tonight to advocate
for three I’m here working for three I
want to promote three I want you to vote
for three I want you to use three I want
you to take three into your tool box and
I want to use it I want you to use it as
a voice for the vulnerable that’s our
theme tonight and so I want to talk
about three now the reason I want to
talk about three is because one has
gotten all kinds of press one is always
out there everybody wants to be number
one right we apparently need to put
America first now you wouldn’t get
elected if you said put America second
repair put America third first is best
we all want to be number one and then
there’s two and two is impressive I mean
you got to you got to give it 2 to 2
ohms right and wrong it owns binary it
owns either/or it owns up down to has
got it it’s got it going on we couldn’t
live without – we need to – super
important but three three is a magic
number and so I want to help you out
with 3 well we all would know this about
3 there are 3 blind mice right we know
about those three blind mice 3 little
pigs
three little pigs had a house a straw
house of sticks house of bricks they
knew about three they had three of those
and they said we wee wee all the way
home and say we
I didn’t say we we then go to and you’re
the power three they said we wee wee all
the way home
there was those three Billy Goats Gruff
you know about those guys those three
maybe the power of three those three
they’ve rounded that bridge and on top
of that bridge wherever they were three
is a magic number three is a powerful
thing because the three bears and the
three bears remember they had it’s too
hot it was too cold and it was just
right they know about three they give
you three choices there that’s three
bears that’s three bears were smart they
knew about the power of three and it
wasn’t just our animals is just our
animals in our fairy tales it’s our
heroes and our epic heroes that we look
to like The Three Musketeers
that’s three amigos Steve Martin they
knew about three those three
there’s the Three Stooges of course but
then there’s the three wise men and the
three wise men showed up with three
gifts they had frankincense and gold and
myrrh three I know about three and then
there’s the three-pointer and basketball
Steph Curry is taking over with that
there’s three points for a field goal
there’s three strikes you’re out in
baseball when you root root root for the
home team cause if they don’t win it’s a
shame and if somebody really hits one
it’s going going gone
hip-hip-hooray 3:3 is so powerful and I
could keep him going but then you could
help me you know my speech about three
you know it better than I know it you
see there’s a B see you can help me here
one two don’t ray how did you know this
you know this stuff about three well
then there’s Ready Set you do that one
there’s RORO
and Santa saying ho ho and then there’s
tic-tac-toe of course there’s Ready Set
and then there’s tic-tac-toe
ready-set-go
abc123 they just keep going one after
another red white and blue Tom Dick and
Harry Peter Paul and Mary three is a
magic number and it’s not just the new
stuff it’s not just a recent thing it’s
ancient Aristotle knew about three he
had pathos logos ethos you remember that
and later on Caesar picked up three and
he said friends Romans countrymen and
then there was a government that was
made somewhere for the people by the
people of the people where they taught
us to pursue life and liberty and the
pursuit of happiness three we know it’s
the truth nice the whole truth that’s
nothing but the truth and that three
stuff is not just something you like
because it’s poetic it’s something
that’s in the neuroscience of your brain
as people research and look into the
brain science they start to realize that
three is interesting because it is the
most basic pattern that there is and our
brains love patterns researchers at the
University of Missouri have been looking
into this and a professor named Cowan
who’s looking into this and saying you
know what’s interesting about our brain
is we build patterns and patterns help
us do what they help us to avoid
problems and they help us to solve
problems they help us to predict things
which is why we have computers because
we can take patterns and build out
things amazing things happens when we
get these patterns lined up and three is
the core the simplest form of a pattern
and so we love those patterns our brains
love those patterns it’s the way that
they’re put together these researchers
at the University of Missouri did
research and they look to see what is it
that we could do with our brains and
guess what at the end of the day they
realized it in our short-term memory we
can only remember three things maybe
five if you’re really sharp three is
there and that magic number inside your
brain the physical makeup of your brain
has three pieces right there’s a
cerebellum and the cerebrum and the
brainstem or if you want to just use the
terms I use the front the back in the
middle of your brain and they do three
different things inside of this dark
moist skull is this thing in there
gaining information and there are three
chunks of it we live on the third Rock
from the Sun by the way that
and so these neurosciences scientists
said they’ve looked at this they’ve also
been building on work that came long
before them Abraham Maslow remember when
he developed his hierarchy of needs he
had two that were really simple we knew
those cavemen do those it was that you
needed to eat something and you needed
to get out of the rain right those are
two of them
so that wasn’t anything interesting but
the next three he develops we’re really
interesting because he said that to be
really alive you need three things the
three things you need according to
Maslow are some sort of meaning in your
life Maslow said do we need someone to
love basically this is my rephrasing of
it we need something to do and we need
something to hope for
we need someone to love we need
something to do and we need something to
hope for
I’m probably the greatest master of
three and our entire culture was Martin
Luther King Martin Luther King went to
seminary and the rule of three was
taught to them strictly on that seminary
and they learned it and he learned it
and he learned how to preach if you’ve
ever listened to his sermons they had
this beautiful amazing cadence and
they’re always in threes and there’s
this one very special sermon he has it’s
not really using the rule of three as
much as it’s about three it’s called the
three dimensions of a complete life and
he says this and that he says unless you
are three you’re gonna be flat he called
it the length and the width and the
height of life and he said a lot of
people focus on the length of life
that’s developing according to King your
inner powers and so as you develop your
inner powers you become a better person
if that’s all you do and you focus only
on yourself then you become selfish and
you become exact
the type of person that no one ever
wants to be around because you are a
flat person you might be really good at
developing your inner powers but you’re
not impressive and King wasn’t impressed
he said if you want to just live the
length of life and you can be a flat
person and you’ll never really make a
difference in the world but you could be
a two-dimensional person he said you
could think about the width of life and
the width of life according to King was
this outward reached to others to look
around and to realize I’m not alone in
this world and I need to spend my life
reaching out to people and so he said
you have to reach out you have to have
length to your life making yourself as
good as you can be but you have width to
your life to reach out to other people
and then you talked about the height of
life reaching up reaching up so that you
can give hope and meaning to other
people so that you become a
three-dimensional person that’s the way
King looked at it that was Kings three
sermon and so we have this power of
three and the question is what will we
do with the power of three for the
vulnerable for the vulnerable and if you
want to meet the vulnerable what you
need to do right now is you need to just
look around you because every human
being is so vulnerable we all need
someone to love us we all need something
to do we all need something to hope for
that’s us and as we look around us and
we think of ways that we can serve the
vulnerable I want to suggest that the
vulnerable have had enough of one
they’ve had enough of no adolfs and
people who only focus on the length of
life they’ve had enough really probably
of to the people who are really out
there looking for someone to love them
or something to do or something to hope
for because they’ve had a lot of right
and wrong and a lot of black and white
in their life a lot of Democrats and
Republicans but I wonder if they’ve ever
met someone using the power of three
someone looking from a three dimensional
aspect at their life and saying I want
to come in with this power of three with
this three in my toolbox and so I want
you to put
this rule of three in your toolbox
tonight and you can use it in a couple
ways one way you could use it is just
for yourself you could say hey if
neuroscientists say I can’t do more than
three things that I don’t not gonna let
my professor giving me 18 things to do
see how that goes over but you could use
it to limit your schedule you could use
it to kind of organize your life you
could use it to say I want to be really
good at these three things be a great
way to use the rule three but you could
also use it to be a voice for the
vulnerable you could go out and just say
what am I gonna do in this world what am
I going to do with my life and here’s
what I’m gonna do I’m gonna go and give
people what Maslow said everyone needs
and what King said everyone needs is
someone to love them and give them
something maybe to do that’s important
and give them something to hope for
using the rule of three and so I’m here
tonight on behalf of that magic number
and I’m here to suggest that if we walk
out of this room thinking not so much in
the binary not so much as champions of
one to be number one but to be instead
champions of three to say may be in the
position to yes and know that we could
be the kind of voice for the vulnerable
that we’ve heard tonight that we’ve
heard in all of these expressions that
we’ve heard in these stories of racial
strife of parenting struggles of life
difficulties that we can be to kind of
force using the power of four it three
there’s so many stories and our culture
using this power of three but the
question will be for you is how will you
use it to be a voice for the vulnerable
and I want to challenge you tonight to
use that magic number three thank you
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[Music]
[Applause]
[Applause]
last one
three guys walk into a bar I’ve always
wanted to start a talk like that
and that’s funny isn’t it three guys
walk into a bar it’s funny I’m give you
the punchline yet it’s funny because I
didn’t say 14 guys walk into a bar or
six women walk into a bar I said three
and three is funny three is a magic
number and I am here tonight to advocate
for three I’m here working for three I
want to promote three I want you to vote
for three I want you to use three I want
you to take three into your tool box and
I want to use it I want you to use it as
a voice for the vulnerable that’s our
theme tonight and so I want to talk
about three now the reason I want to
talk about three is because one has
gotten all kinds of press one is always
out there everybody wants to be number
one right we apparently need to put
America first now you wouldn’t get
elected if you said put America second
repair put America third first is best
we all want to be number one and then
there’s two and two is impressive I mean
you got to you got to give it 2 to 2
ohms right and wrong it owns binary it
owns either/or it owns up down to has
got it it’s got it going on we couldn’t
live without – we need to – super
important but three three is a magic
number and so I want to help you out
with 3 well we all would know this about
3 there are 3 blind mice right we know
about those three blind mice 3 little
pigs
three little pigs had a house a straw
house of sticks house of bricks they
knew about three they had three of those
and they said we wee wee all the way
home and say we
I didn’t say we we then go to and you’re
the power three they said we wee wee all
the way home
there was those three Billy Goats Gruff
you know about those guys those three
maybe the power of three those three
they’ve rounded that bridge and on top
of that bridge wherever they were three
is a magic number three is a powerful
thing because the three bears and the
three bears remember they had it’s too
hot it was too cold and it was just
right they know about three they give
you three choices there that’s three
bears that’s three bears were smart they
knew about the power of three and it
wasn’t just our animals is just our
animals in our fairy tales it’s our
heroes and our epic heroes that we look
to like The Three Musketeers
that’s three amigos Steve Martin they
knew about three those three
there’s the Three Stooges of course but
then there’s the three wise men and the
three wise men showed up with three
gifts they had frankincense and gold and
myrrh three I know about three and then
there’s the three-pointer and basketball
Steph Curry is taking over with that
there’s three points for a field goal
there’s three strikes you’re out in
baseball when you root root root for the
home team cause if they don’t win it’s a
shame and if somebody really hits one
it’s going going gone
hip-hip-hooray 3:3 is so powerful and I
could keep him going but then you could
help me you know my speech about three
you know it better than I know it you
see there’s a B see you can help me here
one two don’t ray how did you know this
you know this stuff about three well
then there’s Ready Set you do that one
there’s RORO
and Santa saying ho ho and then there’s
tic-tac-toe of course there’s Ready Set
and then there’s tic-tac-toe
ready-set-go
abc123 they just keep going one after
another red white and blue Tom Dick and
Harry Peter Paul and Mary three is a
magic number and it’s not just the new
stuff it’s not just a recent thing it’s
ancient Aristotle knew about three he
had pathos logos ethos you remember that
and later on Caesar picked up three and
he said friends Romans countrymen and
then there was a government that was
made somewhere for the people by the
people of the people where they taught
us to pursue life and liberty and the
pursuit of happiness three we know it’s
the truth nice the whole truth that’s
nothing but the truth and that three
stuff is not just something you like
because it’s poetic it’s something
that’s in the neuroscience of your brain
as people research and look into the
brain science they start to realize that
three is interesting because it is the
most basic pattern that there is and our
brains love patterns researchers at the
University of Missouri have been looking
into this and a professor named Cowan
who’s looking into this and saying you
know what’s interesting about our brain
is we build patterns and patterns help
us do what they help us to avoid
problems and they help us to solve
problems they help us to predict things
which is why we have computers because
we can take patterns and build out
things amazing things happens when we
get these patterns lined up and three is
the core the simplest form of a pattern
and so we love those patterns our brains
love those patterns it’s the way that
they’re put together these researchers
at the University of Missouri did
research and they look to see what is it
that we could do with our brains and
guess what at the end of the day they
realized it in our short-term memory we
can only remember three things maybe
five if you’re really sharp three is
there and that magic number inside your
brain the physical makeup of your brain
has three pieces right there’s a
cerebellum and the cerebrum and the
brainstem or if you want to just use the
terms I use the front the back in the
middle of your brain and they do three
different things inside of this dark
moist skull is this thing in there
gaining information and there are three
chunks of it we live on the third Rock
from the Sun by the way that
and so these neurosciences scientists
said they’ve looked at this they’ve also
been building on work that came long
before them Abraham Maslow remember when
he developed his hierarchy of needs he
had two that were really simple we knew
those cavemen do those it was that you
needed to eat something and you needed
to get out of the rain right those are
two of them
so that wasn’t anything interesting but
the next three he develops we’re really
interesting because he said that to be
really alive you need three things the
three things you need according to
Maslow are some sort of meaning in your
life Maslow said do we need someone to
love basically this is my rephrasing of
it we need something to do and we need
something to hope for
we need someone to love we need
something to do and we need something to
hope for
I’m probably the greatest master of
three and our entire culture was Martin
Luther King Martin Luther King went to
seminary and the rule of three was
taught to them strictly on that seminary
and they learned it and he learned it
and he learned how to preach if you’ve
ever listened to his sermons they had
this beautiful amazing cadence and
they’re always in threes and there’s
this one very special sermon he has it’s
not really using the rule of three as
much as it’s about three it’s called the
three dimensions of a complete life and
he says this and that he says unless you
are three you’re gonna be flat he called
it the length and the width and the
height of life and he said a lot of
people focus on the length of life
that’s developing according to King your
inner powers and so as you develop your
inner powers you become a better person
if that’s all you do and you focus only
on yourself then you become selfish and
you become exact
the type of person that no one ever
wants to be around because you are a
flat person you might be really good at
developing your inner powers but you’re
not impressive and King wasn’t impressed
he said if you want to just live the
length of life and you can be a flat
person and you’ll never really make a
difference in the world but you could be
a two-dimensional person he said you
could think about the width of life and
the width of life according to King was
this outward reached to others to look
around and to realize I’m not alone in
this world and I need to spend my life
reaching out to people and so he said
you have to reach out you have to have
length to your life making yourself as
good as you can be but you have width to
your life to reach out to other people
and then you talked about the height of
life reaching up reaching up so that you
can give hope and meaning to other
people so that you become a
three-dimensional person that’s the way
King looked at it that was Kings three
sermon and so we have this power of
three and the question is what will we
do with the power of three for the
vulnerable for the vulnerable and if you
want to meet the vulnerable what you
need to do right now is you need to just
look around you because every human
being is so vulnerable we all need
someone to love us we all need something
to do we all need something to hope for
that’s us and as we look around us and
we think of ways that we can serve the
vulnerable I want to suggest that the
vulnerable have had enough of one
they’ve had enough of no adolfs and
people who only focus on the length of
life they’ve had enough really probably
of to the people who are really out
there looking for someone to love them
or something to do or something to hope
for because they’ve had a lot of right
and wrong and a lot of black and white
in their life a lot of Democrats and
Republicans but I wonder if they’ve ever
met someone using the power of three
someone looking from a three dimensional
aspect at their life and saying I want
to come in with this power of three with
this three in my toolbox and so I want
you to put
this rule of three in your toolbox
tonight and you can use it in a couple
ways one way you could use it is just
for yourself you could say hey if
neuroscientists say I can’t do more than
three things that I don’t not gonna let
my professor giving me 18 things to do
see how that goes over but you could use
it to limit your schedule you could use
it to kind of organize your life you
could use it to say I want to be really
good at these three things be a great
way to use the rule three but you could
also use it to be a voice for the
vulnerable you could go out and just say
what am I gonna do in this world what am
I going to do with my life and here’s
what I’m gonna do I’m gonna go and give
people what Maslow said everyone needs
and what King said everyone needs is
someone to love them and give them
something maybe to do that’s important
and give them something to hope for
using the rule of three and so I’m here
tonight on behalf of that magic number
and I’m here to suggest that if we walk
out of this room thinking not so much in
the binary not so much as champions of
one to be number one but to be instead
champions of three to say may be in the
position to yes and know that we could
be the kind of voice for the vulnerable
that we’ve heard tonight that we’ve
heard in all of these expressions that
we’ve heard in these stories of racial
strife of parenting struggles of life
difficulties that we can be to kind of
force using the power of four it three
there’s so many stories and our culture
using this power of three but the
question will be for you is how will you
use it to be a voice for the vulnerable
and I want to challenge you tonight to
use that magic number three thank you
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