[Music] [Applause] now it's no secret that we teachers we are not supposed to have favorites and I treat all my kids the same but my current grade 12 age class that's kind of special to me and I don't think it's a secret lots of people know that and this is my great 12 HL class and I'm going to be talking about the fact why are they special not because they're good at math which they are uh not there because they're smart and everything else and they're going to be successful no matter what they're going to
do but they're special because they repres presentent you the new generation and the pioneers of this new world order now they're special because you're special and why are you special well for lots of reasons you're special because you come from different backgrounds and different cultures and you live together instead of fighting and everything else you do good things together not only for yourself for a whole bunch of other people and that's kind kind of special you kind of care let me show you how special you are you do things like you know cake and ambassadors
you go to other places you bring gifts to people who are not privileged you go to far places like Africa and build schools and bring happiness to young children and little boys and most importantly you make people happy and and you enjoy it while you're doing it that I think is kind of special and that's the mark of the new generation and that's the kind of new world order that we need we need a word New World Order of the new generation your generation the one that cares so while I was teaching this class I
usually give them heart problems and they sit and do them and I was sitting there watching like I was there before and I started thinking you think you guys are the only people who Daydream right we do it too so I was kind of like deadd dreaming and thinking wow these guys are really special I wonder what are they going to do do you know kind of like imagine if Barack Obama's teacher when he was in Indonesia sitting there watching him and thinking oh my God this kid is going to grow up to be the
president of United States you know that kind of a thing so I'm thinking wow what are these kids going to do that's so special they're going to create this new world order then you might say what is this new world order you keep talking about and you might even say why is it needed so let me show you why it is important and why it's needed the world if you think about it is kind of crumbling around us if you it's kind of started around 1979 if you remember the Iranian Revolution when they toppled the
Sha I was there during the time so I know it kind of firsthand and then the Berlin Wall happened then we had the Ukraine thing happening nearby we had the Arab Spring going all over the place and the bottom line is people seem to be not very happy about the whole thing you know it's kind of going bad all over the place if you think about it in Hong Kong it's going on do you remember United States in 2007 after the economic crisis when Bernie made off made off with everybody's money ha um so things
were going bad there there are um in fact riots and demonstrations going on in United States right this minute so all across the world there are problems the world seems to be falling apart so we might be thinking wow that's pretty bad well actually that's not really kind of fair because we've done some pretty good stuff also right so for example you know in the early of this last century we invented the Aeroplane which we are hopefully are going to use to fly up tomorrow and after tomorrow uh then in 1969 we landed on the
moon some of you weren't even born then and if you think about it 1969 was only 20 less than 20 years after the computers were first invented so in 20 years with the computers we did land on the moon then Moon wasn't moon was not far enough so we say hey let's go farther so we went to Mars or sent some things to Mars to explore that and most importantly you know it's all about money we made tons of money and if you want to see tons of money New York is stock exchange every day
they are exchanging trillions and trillions of dollars so you might be thinking okay you're talking from both side of the mouth one time you say the world is crumpling the other side you say we did great stuff we got lots of money everybody is Rich so what's the problem so let me show you the problem Global wealth inequality so watch this video and if you it's pretty too fast but we'll see these are real numbers I didn't make them up for now this graph of this video went a little too fast and if you want
you should kind of look at it and study a little bit more and understand what's really happening but this is the one let me summarize it for you here which is really the key what B graphs basically shows is that the majority of the wealth that green bar that goes all the way to the top is owned or controlled by a very teeny minority whereas the other graph that showed most of this wealth is generated by most of the people over there what that means is lot of those people you know the guys who were
protesting in everywhere else they feel like they are the ones who generated this wealth they are entitled to it but they're not getting any of it now you know what happens when something that you think belongs to you and somebody takes it away from you let me show you this was Jimmy kimbles they took away the candy from the kids after Halloween and the parents told the kids we took away your candy those aren't real drawers buddy get out Daddy and I ate all of your candy [Music] now you might think oh these poor kids
you know kids behave badly I mean that really somebody took their candy they're throwing chairs around big deal the grown-ups don't act like that you're right grown-ups don't like that they don't throw chairs they do far work worse let me show you people in France they got mad chop chop people in Russia got mad adios people in Iraq got mad with Saddam Hussein asista okay did you get the picture when you really get mad we do really bad things so the challenge for these pioneers of mine who are going to create this fantastic new world
order this is the challenge the challenge is that this revolution business that's not a good idea because when you have Revolution what you do you just replace one bad dude with another bad dude things don't really improve so and you got lots and lots of Destruction so revolutions not the answer we need a better way of kind of changing the world basically this new world order has to be without revolutionary destruction where the majority feel successful and that they are achieving some sort of prosperity now that's you know reasonable yes but really tough challenge to
achieve yes that's that's the challenge these people have so I was thinking remember I was thinking about what these people are going to do how are they going to create this new world so I started to thinking wow this is a tough challenge how are they going to do that you know some of the cynical people might say some of these kids they can't even walk from proski and get to class in time how are they going to create this new world order but I thought you know you don't necessarily have to get up in
the morning to do things you can do some wonderful things do you remember my first t talk uh when I talked about the power of the mindset and do you remember I talked about the fact that before we had this mindset that the world is flat then all of a sudden we changed this mindset to the world is round and next thing you know Columbus discovered America and next thing you know we have the greatest nation on Earth just out of that one change in mindset but that was Finding America that's a big deal right
but that challenge I was talking about that's much bigger deal so maybe one mindset change is not going to do it I think they need two changes in mindset the first one is now this is a quote which is on my board all the time those of the people in my classes they know this and it says I cannot solve every problem but I can solve any problem now that's kind of profound and if you think about it you know we're trying to solve racial inequality we're trying to solve protectionism we're trying to solve gender
inequality and these are every problem and maybe we're not being that successful we need a solution like a quadratic formula for solving any problem I had to get the quadratic formula in there the other problem is so we need to change this mindset that hey we don't can't solve every problem but we need to find a way to solve any problem kind of like you know the story about give the man a fish feed him for a day teach the man to fish feed him for a lifetime that kind of solution that we're looking for
the other problem with this gender inequality and racial inequality and protectionism is that it creates a lot of inefficiencies do you remember from my last Ted Talk I talk about how women were not treated equally as men and they really should be treated and that men and women are the binary of humanity and binary is the zero and one on which all the computers are built which for your calculators and your Facebook and all those things if the binary was messed up things would be pretty messed up right so the whole binary is at the
point that zero and one are distinct not unequal but equally valuable that's why men and women should be equally valuable if you don't treat them it's like saying in binary computers that we don't like zeros let's all have ones now if you did that imagine what would happen this is what happens when you mess with binary the whole thing the computer scope iser the whole thing goes Kut I think you see what I mean that's what happened so we need a second mindset change mindset change number two and what is that that is not a
zero some game let me explain what that means you know our current Society is based on the fact that competition is good now when you compete what happens you're going for a prize now the problem with that is there is one prize lots of people competing for it so they have to fight for that and that's why you have fights imagine you didn't have one price you had lots of prices not only the number of people but tons of them then there are no reason for people to fight right and the problem is that we
have this mindset that oh my God if we give something to somebody else it comes out of somebody else's pocket and therefore it's not a good thing but the reality is we have tons of resources it is not a zero sum game if somebody benefits it doesn't mean that somebody else necessarily have to be hurt right and that's the second mindset change and when you do that this is what happens we know especially in United States we are really big into competition you've seen football games everybody is competing for everything else soccer league mini league
that League that League TV shows everything all about competition and competition is good thing you might say hey what's wrong with that United States really power F fantastic place that's a good thing to achieve prosperity and we have but the problem is it's only good for a few United States out of the whole world of 7 billion people that's a few prosperous people no what we need is collaboration because a collaboration is a better way and that's why coming back to the whole thing the reason you guys are special is because you naturally collaborate you
compete also because a lot of you are going to Stanford and MIT and all those fantastic places right that's competition but at the same time you collaborate so collaboration along with competition that's really the best way that's how you create this new world order so the question is what is the best way the best way is to create the New World Order without revolutionary destruction where the majority feel successful and are achieving Prosperity so the question is will this vision of mind that this fantastic special group of Mind are they going to create this world
order yeah they will of that in my mind there is no question the only question is when will they do it will they do it if I'm still around to watch it or will they do it after I drop dead you know I think about it not is such a bad idea either ways why because either ways I know they will and that the world is in better hands your hands thank you very much no pressure you guys just do it Nike thank you
