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

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They always capitalize "Change" now. [br]If you work in a big company,

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they say, "Everything has to change,

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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 want[br]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. [br]Well ... it's not that easy.

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Managers want us to [br]change our approach,

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

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And every time a politician says people [br]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 [br]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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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

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as the talk should only have 18 minutes.

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From left to right: There is[br]a kind of obsessive type

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and a kind of hysterical[br]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

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and stay that way,

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and this is the standard argument.

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

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or let’s say, "in a higher priority."

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They are in higher [br]salary classes,

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all those "change managers" [br]and consultants

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who attack us and say

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that we had 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 management [br]theory consists of dissing the obsessive type.

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That's it, basically.

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It doesn't have any [br]intellectual content. (Laughter)

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

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It's about the depressed ones who [br]always want to do everything in company.

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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 [br]sensitive self-consciousness,

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type "geek" or "nerd." Right?

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Super isolated, excellent solitary workers, [br]especially at the computer,

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and from time to time they have to [br]make 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 [br]are mostly on Facebook.

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(Laughter)

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But that’s true.

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(Applause) (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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Like a kind of royalty that[br]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 [br]said, "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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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 of these Google+ [br]people 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 such [br]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, Accessibilty, 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. [br]This is official psychology. It's not my fault.

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Here are the characteristics: meticulous, ambitious,[br]enduring, persistent, clean, rational, and so on.

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As opposed to: no risk, no fun, impulsive, [br]adventurous, loves the show, [br]the center 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, why do [br]you always do the same things?" – from right to left.

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"You blockhead always go home on time [br]to your garden plot, 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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And from left to right, they [br]always talk about shallowness.

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"And you just talk [br]and don’t do anything."

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"You only want the adventure, [br]but I have 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 and usually [br]don't have money left by the end of the month.

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They get loans, right? You also see it [br]now in the behavior 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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The official German [br]notion 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 to

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officially teach us these characteristics,

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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 where to?

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And I just want to comment on that.

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I coined a term for this, [br]"Ungewöhnung" (De-Habituation).

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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 [br]we are getting the people used to

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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 tell them, "Do something!"

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"Like what?"

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"Change!"

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"Yeah, but where to? Can I [br]have a look at the roadmap?

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

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Bit-sized?

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And they're told, "Don’t just stand there [br]and ask what to do: Change!"

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And again, "Where to?" And then, [br]we are standing there.

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Do you 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 that [br]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 [br]normal boss 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, and[br]all slides have to match 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 color.

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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 where [br]you talk about emotional intelligence

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and what you have to [br]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[br]allowed to make mistakes."

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Right? Or "Set yourself some goals." "Do things[br]differently." "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 feel [br]more like adults, and the people on the right

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kind of represent[br]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. [br]That’s a bit dangerous

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

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

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(Laughter) But that's okay.

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

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Okay.

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So I googled something. [br]I took out my old report card,

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had a look and found this.

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I looked at what I was good at in school. [br]"Ordnung" (organization) and "Fleiß" (diligence).

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That's what it says up here. These are[br]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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Are they still doing this?

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Very similar.

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If I googled correctly, they have now [br]substituted it with more sophisticated

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vocabulary like "social behavior" and [br]"purposeful professional success whatever."

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That’s what I’ve written there.

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

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That's the implicit message.

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That it's easier to see,[br]I proposed new grades.

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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, sense of humor."

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[Slide: Constructive will. Proactivity &[br]community spirit. Balanced self-confidence.]

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Have you ever seen a job description[br]requiring "a sense of humor?"

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(Laughter)

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Not even in marketing. (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. (Laughter)

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

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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. [br]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. Those [br]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 30 years old and not [br]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 "Lesson learned."

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(Laughter)

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And then it turns out [br]that we had conflicts

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and communication problems. [br]We didn’t really talk to each other.

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Blah blah blah blah. [br]"You don’t have an 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]and then they have this brass thing.

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"Can you tell me 100 things [br]you could 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 traveling 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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The part of your brain that could do that[br]has been switched off for a long time.

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(Laughter)

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

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98 % of all children, around the age of five, [br]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, [br]"I can poke the girls,

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pick my ears, pick my nose, [br]pick everything;

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and behind…"

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The girl says, "Jewelry here,[br]jewelry there, piercings everywhere…"

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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 are counting the ways,[br]and you, on the other hand ...

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(Laughter)

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And the statistics are saying that 98 % of the [br]people sitting here aren’t able to list 100 ways.

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As five-year-olds you [br]could do it; 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 and there is this … [br]I believe it was Kurt Tucholsky who said,

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"Look at the children, how cute they are! What [br]a pity that they become adults later in life."

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(Laughter)

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

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"Talent for attraction", average Germans hate that. [br]You are not allowed to 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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Nobody has any vitality left. They have to announce [br]nearly everyone a manager who still has a 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. (Laughter)

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Well, what I want to is[br]to get humans

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

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We already have IQ and EQ. [br]A big German newspaper

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lets you test this online. [br]Just enter "SZ IQ" or

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"SZ EQ" in the internet. [br]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 [br]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 have to solve this[br]consistently in the village,

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so nobody is treated unfairly."[br]"Let's all have coffee and cakes and discuss

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how much it should be, [br]how long they can watch TV", etc.

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I want to use the last minutes to [br]give you a short demonstration

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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, nine hundred… Do you see[br]what's happening? Your brain says, [br]"Sorry, cannot do."

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(Laughter) That is what I [br]had in mind with this talk.

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You laughed a few times.

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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[br]average management meeting.

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(Laughter)

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

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

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That’s gonna be a great picture.

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And then you say, "Watch out, [br]I take a picture now."

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Then she’s gonna look [br]ugly 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 it what [br]it actually looks like.

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Now, this is just a chart. [br]If you take a real picture,

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it looks like that… [br]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 that Think-about-Egypt-thing

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and beta waves are the meeting.

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You can’t read it that well, what a pity.

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On 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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which adults will never[br]get back in their life…

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They have those up to 18 months, [br]then three years of theta waves,

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then from age six 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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Then 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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Look, these are simply different waves.

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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 harddrive yet?

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You want to scream[br]"We want child-adequate welfare"

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when someone… Do you understand? [br]Are not nearly all the obsessive things

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

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all the obsessions

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are they not drilled into a child [br]for eighteen months

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during its theta state, [br]it was really vulnerable

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and couldn’t say anything against it?

0:21:41.164,0:21:44.247
Basically you messed with the BIOS of the child

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so Windows 7 cannot fix [br]anymore the BIOS which

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has already been broken?

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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 [br]and ask yourselves

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if we’re not destroying people.

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My clock shows zero.

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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.

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Approximately.

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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,

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depending on how it goes.

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

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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 [br]has to stop. It's obsessive,

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and it has to change.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)