[Applause] [Music] [Applause] in his famous commencement speech David Foster Wallace tells the story of two fish who swim alone at some point the two young fish meet an older fish who happens to be swimming the other direction who nods at them and says morning boys how's the water now the two young fish swim on and at some point one looks at the other and says what the hell is water now indeed what the hell is water did any of you ever thought about that now imagine that you are one of the two young fish who
actually realizes that this is water and by this realization you can actually start enjoying the water you can start exploring that water and as you swim along and as you enjoy your life because you notice that there's different temperatures to water you also notice that there are different currents and those currents in some way affect your life and behavior because sometimes you have to swim in a very hard way and it's hard to swim if you're swimming against the current and then if you swim with the currents it's much easier and you notice that actually
the same currents affect other fish and so once you know how it affects you you can actually know how it affects other fish and therefore you can be predict their behavior and so you know that there is water and at some point maybe you know there's air you decide to swim up and you jump up and say wow this is like a different universe it's not wet sand it's not sticky this is new and so you know what is water and you know what it's air and then maybe just maybe at some point you do
notice that there's land and you get curious about land 400 million years ago the first fish came on land and start the revolution of evolution although of the species that we know now this fish was a rebel who was a revolutionary and that fish was our ancestor that fish hacked the system by realizing what is water now what about the other fish the one that didn't realize what is water what that fish probably still swims around and looks at other things say what the hell was that and that fish probably sooner or later will end
up on a fish hook on a fish ball or on our plate fast forward couple hundred million years to fairly recent times of 399 BC we find ourselves in the great city of Athens at the Athens square the town square there's an older man walking around and talking to the youth and he's asking them weird questions he says why do you do what you do could you do something else what do you think what you think he's challenging their assumptions he say why do you think this is impossible what do you think this is possible
who told you so he's telling them to know themselves because he says if you know yourself you also know the gods now his name is socratis he is the father of Western philosophy he was a rebel revolutionary and the first modern hacker socratis was sentenced to death for impiety and corruption of the youth but his know thyself is one of the best hacking tools ever invented fast forward two and a half thousand years later today today we don't worship the same gods as people in the athens did but we worship other things we don't gather
and discuss things on the Agora Square but we do gather and discuss things in different spaces Facebook Twitter snapchat today software is eating up the world code is everything and everything is code the computational power of machines doubles every 18 months change is becoming the only constant and systems around us are getting hacked whether that be technical system political system or human system so the question is what is our water my name is Patricia and I have spent quite a bit of time researching how and why humans get hacked in ocean as an academic I
research the dark Hawks of history that is our research what were the hacks in the history that led to a downgrade of humanity my research was focused on the psychological mechanisms behind genocide hatred bigotry and violence today is an entrepreneur I study how humans teams organizations can hack rewire and upgrade themselves some people say what I do is mind hacking and so as any nerdy hacker I'm fascinated by tech and I appreciate good code that's efficient and well written now the code and technology I talk about right now is organic in its nature it has
the ability of wire and we wire itself as it interacts with the environment and no it is not the new super quantum computer it is the technology of you and me it is the human technology it's built out of or emerged out of 100 billion neurons 100 trillion synaptic connections 30-month spinal nerves that carry information the speed of 40 400 kilometers per hour now this technology makes us humans a living code one that wires and we worse itself as we live learn and evolve now on top of this wetware we have software we call this
software psychological ways now psychological OS consists of our thoughts memories stories that we tell ourselves and tell others assumptions biases expectations and this software runs in the background like any good software like a software of your computer or your smartphone because we all know that the best technology is seamless and invisible just like electricity just like water because this is our water now this is the layer also when we get hacked or we can hack ourselves talking about hacking the world is new but the concept of hacking has existed and a companion as as humanity
since the dawn of humanity and it started with tribal elders and tribal leaders telling stories over bonfire and those score is later on spread far and wide as the print was invented and books got invented and then those stories got multiplied and amplified as mass media mass propaganda got introduced and now those stories with two billion people connected in a single app those stories have the ability to connect us and make us collaborate or disconnect us by creating digital echo chambers today more than half of the world's populations is connected by through and with tech
with technology called the Internet now with such a connectivity and non-linearity my virus have the ability of spreading as quickly as a computer virus and so we will get hacked pinging beeping buzzing like me heart me follow me upload me share me buy me we are getting hot there's a very famous book in business innovation field and has a lovely title change or die now I would change it for self innovation I would say it's hack or be hacked so how do we do that how do we hack ourselves well all starts with questions it
was the older finish that was swimming along and said how's the water guys and got the two young fish thinking the socratic met is actually based on asking questions good question has the ability to show us the nature of reality it has the ability to show us what is water has the ability to show us what is our own code a good question has the ability to help you hack rewire and upgrade yourself now so let's hack something and I thought for today since we at 10 we might want to hack the concept of impossible
because why not in order to hack you really need to understand the deep psychological wiring of this human OS I want to share with you a framework we have developed that has four parts and those are the four parts of how we as humans get program how we get hacked but it's also the four ways how we can hack ourselves and it starts with the head now the head is our cognitive OS and that means this is where our beliefs live this is where our assumptions live this is what the category of possible and impossible
lives what did suck what socratis did is he will walk around and he would tell people can you embrace the opposite can you think that what you think is impossible is actually possible and that really is the hack for the head what would happen if you took the impossible out of the bucket of impossible and put it into a possible what are the thought and cognitive consequence of thinking that something that seemed to be impossible is actually possible and it's just a thought experiment but we know that everything starts in the head and then there's
the heart this is the symbolic source and house of human emotions now human emotions have a very wide spectrum they go all the way from the dark ones or so-called dark ones the fear despair terror anger all the way to the lighter ones inspiration aww wander and so the human heart has the ability to hold it all the question for the heart is what am I feeling right now and is what am I feeling leading to breakdowns breakthroughs or breakdown first and you would be surprised how many impossible things got happen from this side of
the human spectrum how many impossible things got happen because somebody was frustrated or angry with the status quo and then we have the body the body is our hardware we go where our body goes some psychologists would say that the body never lies that the body always keeps the score as opposed to the head now the question for the body is what is my body communicating to me that I need to acknowledge in order to become the version of myself that can actually hack the impossible and then we have people we have other people this
is our social ecosystem we are hard-wired to be social other people jaquez other people inspire us other people teach us the question is who can I bring into my tribe who can I bring into my community that will actually help me hack me and help me upgrade me now the title of this talk was hacking humanity the next revolution with a question mark I'm actually not going to a question so and so while hacking Humanity be the next revolution I don't know and I don't think anybody knows we live an exponential and nonlinear times for
this human race we're small change can lead to a big difference but what I do know is that it took a couple of brave courageous and rebellious fish to the side and say this is water and decide to go on land and that started a revolution of evolution for all of us and I like to end with something called the hackers manifesto hackers manifested was published in January in 1986 and it was the cornerstone of the hacker movement all over the world written by and intended for the hacker community the computer hacking community I think
today it applies to all of us because by the fact that we human we also all hackers we have developed to hack rewire and upgrade ourselves and therefore hacker wanna upgrade humanity and it says I am a hacker and this is my manifesto you may stop this individual but you can stop us all after all we are alike and so I think you fellow hackers [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
