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Yeah, I read the theme,[br]'Subject to Change'.

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They always capitalize 'Change' now.

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If you work in a big company,

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they say, 'Everything has to change,[br]not a stone must be left standing.

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We will reorganize everything[br]from the bottom up.

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But don't worry, your work[br]won't be affected.'

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(Laughter)

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And they're right.

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You just have to work a little bit faster.[br]Your salary goes down just a bit, but --

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'Minor changes'

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And certain types of people[br]want to maintain the situation somehow

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while other types, usually from[br]the top down, rant and rave and say,

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'You guys are too stubborn.[br]You must change your approach.'

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Everyone says that.

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Well, it's not that easy.

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Managers want us[br]to change our approach,

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as do the teachers, our parents,[br]Frau Merkel, everybody.

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And every time a politician[br]says people should change their approach,

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you realize he has already given up[br]any hope that he'll make it.

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Because our approach[br]won't change like that,

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and in a way, that is due to ourselves.

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I would just like to comment[br]on the theory behind this.

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It's simply the 'theory of change'.

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I've just looked this up in a[br]normal psychology book,

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which contains horrible terms

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that you can see on the first slide.

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I will simply tell you the bare facts.

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But I can also do it in a softer way[br]so you don't end up scared.

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(Laughter)

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So there is this tug-of-war going on[br]between different forces inside humans.

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There is a famous book 'Grundformen[br]der Angst' [The Basic Forms of Fears]

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from the '70s which[br]you must have read.

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Psychologists don’t like it[br]as it is a literary masterpiece

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and describes everything very well,[br]it just doesn’t prove anything.

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But it makes for good conversations.

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The message of the whole thing is[br]that there are two tugs-of-war

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of which I will only discuss one[br]as the talk should only be 18 minutes.

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From left to right:

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There is a kind of obsessive type and[br]a kind of hysterical type of person.

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The obsessive ones want to[br]keep everything the same way,

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and the hysterical ones want[br]everything to change all the time.

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There are these two sorts of people.

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And they argue.

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Both are more or less unchanging[br]and stay that way,

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and this is the standard argument.

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At the moment, the hysterical ones[br]are in the majority,

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or let’s say, 'in a higher priority'.

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They are in higher salary classes,

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all those 'change managers'[br]and consultants

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who attack us and say[br]that we have to change radically.

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Basically, they celebrate[br]the hysterical principle.

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I simply took out the characteristics

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of hysteria and obsession[br]for a company once

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and said that the entire current[br]management theory

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consists of dissing the obsessive type.

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[Laughter]

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That's it, basically.

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It doesn't have any intellectual content.

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(Laughter)

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There’s another tug-of-war[br]from top to bottom, but I'll leave it out.

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It's about the depressed ones,

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those who always want to do[br]everything in company.

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(Laughter)

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It happens.

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And the schizoid ones[br]with high self-confidence,

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but with a very sensitive[br]self-consciousness,

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'geek' or 'nerd' types. Right?

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Super-isolated,[br]excellent solitary workers,

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especially at the computer,

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and from time to time they have to make[br]a proud contribution to Google+.

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(Laughter)

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But that’s another talk.

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Today, I am to talk about 'change'.

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The depressed ones are mostly on Facebook.

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(Laughter)

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But that’s true.

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(Applause)[br](Laughter)

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Because they have friends there.

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(Laughter)

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On Google+ you have opponents.

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(Laughter)

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Like a kind of royalty[br]that meets up there to duel.

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This is also an extra talk.[br]I will leave that out.

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Once, I posted the same thing[br]on Facebook and on Google+.

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The depressed ones on Facebook said,[br]'You must have read my thoughts.'

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'We love you all', stuff like that.

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And on Google+,[br]'You didn’t read the link anyway!'

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'Look it up, that’s not new!'

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(Laughter)

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Right? On Google+ you get[br]completely different answers.

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These are the different --

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That explains the contempt[br]of these Google+ people

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for Facebook people and vice versa,

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but as I said earlier, that’s[br]another talk, let's drop it.

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In 'Subject to Change', only those[br]who defy change fight each other.

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I looked that up in a psychology book

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in order to make[br]such difficult terms a bit softer.

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That is the short version for now.

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[Slide, 'obsessive']:[br]Tradition, rules, order, unity,

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and the others say, progress[br]and panta rhei. That’s not fair.

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[Slide, 'hysterical': Progress,[br]Flow, Accessibility, Diversity]

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The hysterical ones arm[br]themselves with Greek -- stuff,

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'But you are using foreign words[br]that I didn’t even know.'

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(Laughter)

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But you understand, right?[br]I don’t have to explain it any further.

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I want you to really understand it.

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This is official psychology.[br]It's not my fault.

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Here are the characteristics: meticulous,[br]ambitious, enduring, persistent,

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clean, rational, and so on.

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As opposed to: no risk, no fun, impulsive,

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adventurous, loves the show,[br]the centre of attention -- or the stage.

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(Laughter)

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Did you read it all?

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'Shallow, sometimes restless and so on.'

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You can literally taste[br]that argument, can't you?

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These guys say, 'You stupid duty monkey,[br]why do you always do the same things?'

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-- from right to left.

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'You blockhead,

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always home on time to your garden plot,[br]and keep your appointments.

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Why can't you come in on the weekend[br]for once and work, so we can finish it?'

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'No, I work at VW. I’m not[br]available on weekends.'

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(Laughter)

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And from left to right, they[br]always talk about shallowness.

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'And you just talk and don’t do anything.'

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'You only want the adventure,[br]but I'm to make it happen.'

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'And additionally, I should[br]give you the money, too.'

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Because the others are thrifty

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and usually don't have money left[br]by the end of the month.

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(Laughter)

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They get loans, right?

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You also see it now[br]in the behaviour of the companies.

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So they argue with each other.

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What should I do with my[br]other 11 minutes of the talk?

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(Laughter)

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The official German notion[br]of a human is --

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left, obsessive, right?

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And I just want to comment on that.

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Virtually everyone tries really hard

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to teach us these characteristics,[br]not those over there.

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I mean, if everyone works hard on[br]raising their kids to be obsessive,

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then how should they change?

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And in what way?

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And I just want to comment on that.

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I coined a term for this:[br]'Ungewöhnung' [dehabituation],

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meaning they shouldn’t work[br]so hard on teaching the children

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how to limit themselves every day,[br]because then it’s easier to change.

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But I'm not saying you should bring up[br]your children in the hysterical way.

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That would be a bit too much.

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Maybe we should take the middle way.

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But in the current system

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we are getting the people used to[br]all these characteristics over here.

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Approximately up to the master’s degree.

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Then, they join a company and[br]they're told, 'Do something!'

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(Laughter)

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'Like what?'

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'Change!'

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'Yeah, but what? Can I have[br]a look at the road map?

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Can you tell me what the milestones are,[br]what I should do tomorrow?

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Bit by bit?

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So they're told, 'Don’t just stand there[br]asking what to do: Change!'

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Then, 'In what way?'[br]And we just stand there.

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Understand?

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That doesn't give us a good outlook[br]into the 'comfort zone of the future'.

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We only notice the change[br]after it has happened.

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But the obsessive ones already notice[br]the change when their fear sets in.

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There is something in the air[br]that something is about to happen,

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and they recognize change very well,

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because it's when they get scared.

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And the hysterical ones really[br]feel like doing something.

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That is fundamentally different. Right?

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I have written down some opposites.

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Like I said, this is what a normal boss[br]would say at work.

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So here on the left side:[br]'Avoid mistakes!', 'Unity!',

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'The slides have to have the real logo,

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and all slides have to match[br]our corporate identity.'

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'The A-level exams must be the[br]same across the country', and so on.

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Unity, unity, unity.

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Everything in the same bland colour.

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So that’s what they force[br]onto us in daily life.

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And in the management meetings,[br]or 'strategy meetings',

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where you can let your[br]thoughts and ideas roam,

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think about a sustainable[br]future and so on;

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or at those psychological seminars

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where you talk about[br]emotional intelligence

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and what you have to do in normal life

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they always say that stuff[br]here on the right,

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'Now act', or, 'You must be allowed[br]to make mistakes.'

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Right? Or 'Set yourself some goals',[br]'Do things differently',

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'Don’t always ask for permission'.

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Sadly, we still don’t have[br]a science for this,

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business administration[br]is strictly on the left.

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For the right side, we only have appeals.[br]It's hard to actually teach it to someone.

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The problem is that the people on the left[br]feel more like adults,

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and the people on the right[br]kind of represent our inner child.

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The child is still spoiled and[br]always wants something new,

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it wants to go on adventures.

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That’s a bit dangerous and that’s[br]why it’s really difficult to stay a child.

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At my home, they sometimes[br]tell me that I’m still a kid.

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(Laughter)

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But that's OK.

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It means I’m not too far[br]on the left side yet.

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OK.

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So I Googled something.

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I took out my old report card,[br]had a look and found this.

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I looked at what I was[br]good at in school --

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'Ordnung' [organization][br]and 'Fleiß' [diligence].

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That's my actual report cards from school.

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It says 'Ordnung', 'Fleiß', 'Betragen'[br][conduct] and 'Mitarbeit' [collaboration].

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We got grades for that.

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Is that still the case?

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Very similar.

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If I Googled correctly,

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it's now substituted[br]with more sophisticated vocabulary

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like 'social behaviour'

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and 'purposeful professional[br]success whatever'.

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That’s what I’ve written there.

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Can you see how the school[br]is teaching us to become obsessive?

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That's the implicit message.

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I proposed new grades[br]so that it's easier to see.

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I simply made them up.

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You can check them out[br]and see if you like them.

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I just took some other ones.

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'Creativity, innovativeness,[br]sense of humour.'

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[constructive will - proactivity[br]- self-confidence]

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Have you ever seen a job description[br]requiring 'a sense of humour'?

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(Laughter)

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Not even in marketing.

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(Laughter)

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They should be able to make[br]dumb jokes, be funny on demand;

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that's marketing for you.

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(Laughter)

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Funny on demand –[br]that’s left again, right?

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(Laughter)

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By now you’ve read everything.

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A 'winning appearance'.

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Imagine I went public with this,[br]not just at TEDx,

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but imagine I told that[br]to the teacher union,

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they'd crucify me. Isn't that strange?

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But that is the stuff[br]that's actually needed in a job.

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You don't find that in job descriptions[br]or general conduct grades. Right?

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Of course, like every year,[br]I’ve written a book about it,

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and this time it is about[br]professional intelligence.

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Here I randomly wrote down[br]some types of intelligence.

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I just made them up.[br]Those are the ones we should have.

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People have intelligence anyway;[br]you know it because you do.

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Emotional intelligence,[br]you probably don’t have it yet.

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It's only at 30 years old and[br]not enough research has been done yet.

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When they run projects[br]and they go wrong,

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they always sit together

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and start whining and ask,[br]'What went wrong?'

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That is called 'lessons learned'.

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(Laughter)

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And then it turns out we had conflicts[br]and communication problems.

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We didn’t really talk to each other,[br]blah blah blah.

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'You have no EQ', they say.

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Somehow, creativity[br]is not allowed anymore.

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There are TEDx videos about paper clips.

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'Can you tell me 100 things --',[br]they have this brass thing,

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'Can you tell me 100 things[br]you can do with a paper clip?'

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If you are on the executive level,[br]a manager like I was, then you say,

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'Sticking travelling expenses together.'

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Can you name 100?[br]You can't.

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The moment I ask you, 'Can you tell me[br]100 ways?', your brain goes, 'Oh, shit.'

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Do you understand?

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(Laughter)

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The part of your brain capable of that[br]switched off long ago.

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(Laughter)

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I found statistics -- you can look them up[br]under this test -- saying

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that 98% of all children[br]around the age of five

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are able to tell you 100 ways right away.

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Try it one day.

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Small children. Boys, girls.

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Spotlight on! See their eyes shine.

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The boy says, 'I can poke the girls,[br](Laughter)

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pick my ears, pick my nose,[br]pick everything, backside -- '

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(Laughter)

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The girl, 'Jewellery here, there,[br]piercings all over --'

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They reach 100 just like that!

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And then you see their eyes shine

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as they count the ways,[br]and you, on the other hand --

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(Laughter)

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And the statistics say 98%[br]of the people sitting here

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aren’t able to list 100 ways.

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As five-year-olds you could do it;[br]98% could do it,

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and now it’s exactly reversed[br]so the statistics say --

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So the truth comes out

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and there is this -- I believe it was[br]Kurt Tucholsky --who said,

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'Look at the children, how cute they are!

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What a pity they will later[br]become adults.'

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(Laughter)

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Look, that’s what you are.[br]In the context of CQ, you are nothing.

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'Talent for attraction',[br]Germans usually hate that.

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You mustn't do that, you know, stand out.

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There are some rare exceptions[br]like Paris Hilton and all the consultants.

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(Laughter)

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Virtually no one has any vitality.

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They have to make nearly everyone[br]a manager to give him enough will.

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And this here is 'meaning',[br]that’s why we’re here.

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This is still the responsibility[br]of the bloggers.

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(Laughter)

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Well, what I want to do

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is to get humans to test these six types[br]of intelligence on themselves.

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We already have IQ and EQ.

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A newspaper lets you test this online.

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Just enter SZ+IQ or SZ+EQ in Google.

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We should do this for the others, too.

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Then we will realize[br]that we are not at all

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prepared for change or for a new world.

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Because the obsessive ones only use[br]their intelligence and nothing else.

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Now I want to tell you some rules[br]that they drilled into you as a child --

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Or at least into me.[br][Slide: 'Habit-forming']

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You heard stuff like:[br]'Love is something you earn',

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'pocket money must stay the same',

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and, 'we must solve this[br]consistently in the village,

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so nobody is treated unfairly.'[br](Laughter)

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'Let's have coffee and cake and[br]discuss how much it should be,

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how long they can watch TV', etc.

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I want to use the last minutes

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to give you a short demonstration[br]on brainwaves --

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to show that this is[br]something in our brains.

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[Slide: 'Blocking of alpha-activity']

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This slide shows a normal EEG test.

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You lie on the couch and[br]think about holidays in Egypt.

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That’s nice.

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Close your eyes: Egypt.

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Then, the doctor comes in[br]and asks the usual question,

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'Now, think of the number 1,000.

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Keep subtracting 31 until you reach 0.

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Really fast.'

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Well, 1,000, 969; 900,--

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Do you see what's happening?[br]Your brain says, 'Sorry, can't do.'

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(Laughter)

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That is what I had in mind with this talk.

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You laughed a few times,[br]I got you into the alpha wave mode

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and you don't want beta waves now.

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Beta waves are your average[br]management meeting.

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(Laughter)

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Take a woman, a beautiful one.[br]Any woman here.

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Take a picture of her[br]when she's thinking about Egypt.

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That’s makes for a great picture.

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Then you say, 'OK,[br]just taking your photo.'

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Then she’s going to look ugly[br]on the picture.

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These are beta waves.[br]Like in a meeting.

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(Laughter)

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And that’s what[br]it actually looks like.

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This is just a chart.

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If you take a real picture,[br]it looks like that --

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But you can see it, right?

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The three phases --

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There are different waves,[br]long, short, and so on.

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You already know that?

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You only get delta waves[br]in a near-death experience

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or an Indian Guru might[br]have one for a second.

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Theta waves occur during meditation.

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Alpha waves are[br]that 'think-about-Egypt-thing',

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and beta waves are the meeting.

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(Laughter)

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You can’t read it that well, pity.

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At the top: a newborn.[br]You have delta waves up to 18 months.

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Right?

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A toddler, from around 18 months[br]to 5.5 years, has theta waves.

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Adults never have delta waves again,

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they have those up to 18 months,[br]then 3 years of theta waves,

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then from age 6 alpha waves,

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then unfortunately[br]they become an adult,

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approximately between[br]15 and 20 years of age.

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Then, in my age, you get[br]alpha waves again.

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Great, right?

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(Laughter)

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Well, beta waves are,[br]'Don’t do that!' 'Stop it!'

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'Hold the spoon properly!'

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The usual upbringing.

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When grandchildren take a walk[br]with grandpa, who has alpha waves,

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he just looks at them,

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until the child says eventually,[br]'It's nicer with grandpa.'

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And the parents say, 'You weren't[br]supposed to give them chips!'

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And grandpa says,[br]'I didn’t do anything.'

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(Laughter)

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Look, these are simply different waves.

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(Laughter)

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An old man like me and a child[br]have the same waves, alpha,

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and the evil adults are in between.

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There's one thing I'm worried about.

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They try to get a child, with delta waves,[br]a kind of apocalypse in the brain --

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they try to teach them cleanliness[br]and to maintain a sleeping pattern.

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Do you see the problem?

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The question is: Is the child[br]even able to do that?

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That’s a serious question.

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Is it able to do that at all?

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What are you doing with the child?

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Why are you trying to get[br]a child with theta waves

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from 18 months to 6 years of age[br]to learn English in kindergarten?

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It is able to do that at all?

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Does it even have a hard-drive yet?

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You want to scream, 'We want[br]child-adequate welfare', when someone --

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Do you understand?

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Are not nearly all the obsessive things,

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like organization, behaviour,[br]conduct, collaboration, diligence,

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all the obsessions,

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are they not drilled into a child[br]for 18 months during its theta state

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when it was really vulnerable and[br]couldn’t say anything against it?

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Basically you messed[br]with the BIOS of the child,

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so Windows 7 cannot fix anymore

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what has already been broken[br]in the BIOS?

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That's called 'a mark'.

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'It left a mark on him.'

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German.

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And then you want[br]a 'comfort zone of the future'

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and turn him into a hysterical type?

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I would be careful.

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Take the slides with you

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and ask yourselves[br]if we’re not destroying people.

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My clock shows zero;[br]I have to stop.

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I have a lot more stuff.

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I am not that old, but 60, about.

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As I said before, I would like to see,

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first of all, child education in[br]accordance with the brain waves,

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so that people don’t drill[br]all the values into the children,

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in EEG times that[br]we cannot undo later.

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And then we could start talking[br]about differentiated education.

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Bringing up every child individually,[br]depending on how it goes.

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I have already talked[br]about this a lot, last year as well,

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and I will keep on claiming the same,

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I will repeat this at the end[br]of each of my talks,

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until something is done about it,

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and until this uniformity finally stops.

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The general uniformity in education

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and work environments has to stop.

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It's obsessive, and it has to change.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)