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(dramatic music)
(rocket engine roaring)
(speaking in foreign language)
I was born a long, long time ago
in a country far, far away.
In a city called Mashhad, Iran.
When I was growing up I looked at the night skies
and looked at the stars
and imagined myself floating up and touching them.
I drew a picture of my flight to space,
I drew this beautiful spaceship
that would take me to my stars and I showed it to everyone,
I showed it to my parents, to friends,
to family, to everyone,
to my teachers, and I told them I'm gonna go to space.
And of course they looked at me, they smiled,
they said, "Nice, this is really good.
How are you going to go up there?"
I said, "This is my spaceship."
And they looked at me and I could tell
that they were not taking me seriously.
So I decided I'm gonna prove them wrong.
So I did, I did go to space,
and I did go to space on a rocket ship
that resembled what I drew.
Just to prove them I could predict the future.
(audience applauds)
And that has been the story of my life.
Everyone who knows me,
they know not to challenge me,
if you tell me I cannot do something,
I'm gonna prove you wrong.
- [Control] The Soyuz TMA-9 and the Expedition 14 crew
now coming into view just over
the limb of the Earth as Mikhail-
The only thing I was anxious about
is making sure I would be in space.
If something was supposed to blow up I was just praying
that please blow up after I'm in space.
I didn't want all this to be for nothing.
Finally everything checked out,
and they said okay, you can open up your seatbelt.
And for the first time I floated up
and I experienced microgravity,
and as I floated up there was
a window next to me, a porthole,
and I looked out and saw Earth,
and it was such an emotional moment for me.
(light music)
And I didn't expect it,
I'm like, it's gonna look like the picture I've been seeing,
but it was so different
when you look at it with your own eyes,
it has an energy that you don't feel from a picture,
it has this energy of life,
and it was warm and alive,
and it was like I was crying, I was laughing,
I was excited, It was such a mix of emotion.
[Control] Now this view
from external cameras on the International Space Station,
showing the Soyuz over Southern Russia
near the Kazakh border and the Caspian Sea.
I started thinking about my childhood
and a summer night looking at the night sky,
and it was like this whole thing
was playing in my head like a movie,
of all of the dots that had to connect,
all of the people that had helped me,
nudged me towards this direction,
and everything that resulted in me being
at that moment sitting
in that capsule on top of that rocket,
and I was just so grateful,
and I was like this is it.
This is what I'm meant to do,
and I'm here and it's gonna happen.
We have contact.
[Man] Docking confirmed.
(audience applauds)
Contact confirmed at 9:21 a.m. Moscow Time.
12:21 a.m. Central Time.
[Man] There she is.
[Narrator] Anousheh Ansari on board.
- [Man] Anousheh, you made the whole world looking at you.
- Thank you, I wouldn't be here without you.
I think dreamers know we're dreamers,
we just try to resist dreaming.
Because we've been told that dreaming is dangerous,
dreaming is irresponsible,
dreaming is worthless.
Just live the life.
If you live in truth, live in transparency,
live in authenticity,
if you speak your truth
it will vibrate at the highest vibration.
I'm an inventor, I'm told.
What do inventors do?
Look at the problems everybody looks at
and figure out a different way to express the problem,
because that will probably then make
some alternative solution pretty straightforward.
For me, it's about getting started.
It doesn't matter how big you just have
to take that first step,
you don't have to be successful right out of the gate.
I can't think of a musician or an artist or an athlete
that went out and started winning tournaments
the second they started trying.
150 years ago this year,
Willard Bundy invented the time clock,
and the time clock was really transformative,
because what it said is if you don't own the place,
you're selling me your time,
and I'm gonna do whatever I can to extract
as much as I can from your time as possible,
and it pushed us all to become cogs,
to become compliant elements in a machine.
And it doesn't matter if you're a fancy lawyer,
or a surgeon,
or it doesn't matter if you work at Tim Horton's,
you're a cog.
(whistle blows)
But something has shifted in our world in the last 20 years,
and it's an awakening that people are realizing
they don't have to take that bargain if they don't want to.
(light music)
I run a company called Archangel,
which is a tribe and community of superhero
entrepreneurs who want to make the world better.
Make a ton of money to make an even bigger impact.
And a lot of the pain points are
we need to learn how to grow, we need cash flow.
And I thought how can we do something
really special and unique and different
that disrupts the way business works,
and disrupts the way philanthropy works.
And I thought what if we actually created something
when we sell something people want,
and then take the profit from it
And use that to give microloans to entrepreneurs
who are growing and making an impact.
I thought oh, I'm in the event space,
I love doing events, I live in Toronto,
I need to do something huge.
So we literally rented the biggest theater in Canada.
And I reached out to some of my superhero crazy friends,
like Gary Vaynerchuk, and Seth Godin,
Robin Sharma, Christian Ruben,
I said listen, "We're doing this event,
the whole purpose is to fill a room with entrepreneurs
who want to make a huge impact
and have you guys on stage sharing
your best wisdom to help them grow.
One thing I've discovered is that your gift
is often next to your wound,
or next to your curse or next
to the pain you've experienced.
And the thing I wish I had growing up
was someone to believe in me.
(dramatic music)
So when I was in fifth grade the school did IQ testing,
and I have a really high IQ,
and I was labeled as gifted.
And my parents and teachers all said this was a great thing,
and a weird thing happened
where I started getting bullied for being too smart.
And I distinctly remember one day
a group of kids surrounding me
telling me to stop doing so well in my tests
because I made them look bad,
and I actually went home crying to my parents.
And I had this negative trigger
and trauma around the world gifted.
I hated it.
And then in high school I discovered comic books,
fell in love with "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man".
But when I opened my very first X-Men comic
on the very first page it
said Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters,
and there was that word gifted again,
but now it meant superpower.
And I had this crazy paradigm shift
that the word gifted meant superpower.
My parents loved me, they still love me,
they're amazing, and they wanted the best for me.
But they came from that generation of get a job,
get a safe job, get benefits, all those types of things.
And I started in the real estate industry in 2010,
did really, really well, and secretly hated it.
And then I got trapped, and it's such a weird place to be,
you get trapped with a reputation
and fame in a little bubble of an industry
where you're well known and you're in magazine articles
and you're touted
as an award-winning person doing anything,
and trying to explain to people that I'm miserable.
And it showed up physically.
I was overweight, and it was hard
to talk to anybody about this.
But then the one positive that came out of it
was it afforded me the chance
to start going to mastermind groups,
and conferences and investing in personal development.
Where I got to meet some of
the most amazing humans on the planet.
It uncovered my ability and my superpower,
my gift to believe in others.
I am obsessed with finding people
who want to change the world and believing in them.
I want to see anyone who is inspired to make change,
I want to help them make it happen.
If you feel like a rebel, if you feel like a misfit,
if you feel like you don't fit in, like you stand out,
if you've been told to stop dreaming,
I want you to pay attention
to what we're all saying in this film,
I want you to listen to us,
I want you to dream bigger.
As a child whatever makes you stand out is a clue
to what your gift is and what your superpower could be.
(speaking in foreign language).
[Woman] What is her name and age?
(speaks in foreign language).
[Woman] Has she ever cut herself?
[Man] Sometimes.
She sometimes cuts herself?
It's quite dangerous if you prick yourself
with this kind, 'cause of so many diseases lately.
Those are needles that she was sorting through.
What are they used for?
They collect the plastics,
only dealing with those plastics.
What are the needles used before,
what were they used for?
- Hospitals? - Hospitals.
And from the drug addicts center.
- Is she ever worried about the spread of viruses like AIDS,
because she said she had cut herself
before and pricked herself?
Yeah, she will just wash it.
Just wash it, that's all, in the water.
She won't get any treatment.
So we were teenagers at the time,
I was a kid in elementary school
and reached for the newspaper, the comics,
and saw this story about a child slave in Pakistan.
He spoke about his conditions,
was killed at the age of 12.
(speaks in foreign language)
I was 12 when I read the article,
Mark just a little bit older,
and I remember the morning reading
that article about the child's life,
and being so angry that I tore it from the newspaper,
shoved it in my backpack,
and when I brought it to my classmates,
got in front of them and said,
I have no idea what we're gonna do, I need your help.
We've come to talk to you
about a problem that we find very serious,
and it is child labor.
Factory owners just love to hire children,
because they don't have to pay them as much,
they are easily intimidated,
won't fight or talk back,
and they cannot form trade unions.
Craig has this crazy idea,
this passion that he wants to help get involved,
and of course help this young person
who he never met around the world,
but who had that very tragic story.
And I said yes, I'll help you for a couple of weeks,
and that's been over 24 years.
But it's been such a journey.
Honestly, we had no idea what we were doing.
We were incredibly young, incredibly naive,
very idealistic.
But I think that's why it worked.
Because our heart was in it.
At the age of four he was sold
into slavery for less than $16.
No one has a good enough excuse
for ignoring these child workers problems.
(audience applauds)
- We started simple campaigns and petitions
and letter writing initiatives
to fund raise to build one school,
that's all we wanted to do is build one school,
in this case in Nicaragua.
Who will help the children if we don't?
Thank you very much.
(audience cheers)
(audience applauds)
- The board has voted and we'll donate $5000
to your cause right off the top, thanks very much.
[Craig] Thank you very much.
We built that one school and then we built a second school,
and a third school, and we started getting more momentum.
- Our union will match the $5000 that the Fed has put down.
It really was interesting,
because we had a lot of people supporting us,
but we also had some adults saying,
okay, you've done your job,
well done, go back to your studies
or kids should be going to school not building schools.
Are you certain you're not
being exploited by adults in any way,
did you run this campaign?
Actually I'm the founder
of the organization Free The Children,
so I've done it totally on my own will,
and it's a completely youth run organization.
So there are no other adults
who have political means behind the lines.
It was a very interesting,
sometimes even a tenuous moment where we needed
to figure out is this something
we were really committed to
and we were gonna do long-term.
It's funny, because what we thought
was our greatest disadvantage
being so young was our innocence,
we had disadvantage in the early days,
but maybe not in the ways people would recognize.
It helped with media, helped get the story out,
people would take meetings
with us sometimes because the novelty factor.
You have the power in your words,
in your actions, and in your policy-making.
But it's also because we knew
that we didn't have the answers,
so when we started to build schools around the world,
or do clean water or health projects,
some other charities would build a school,
or build a clean water project and just move on,
and very maybe naively,
we would sit with the community and say,
why did that work or why didn't that work?
(speaks in foreign language)
- So he has that unfortunate by who has been branded
with red-hot iron rods
by his master on 1st of November night.
Because he helped freeing his younger brother
and another friend of him, he was caught.
His hands and legs were bound with rope,
and branded with red hot iron in several places.
He was in such a severe trauma
he was not speaking a single word.
Not crying, not smiling, no emotions, no feelings.
But only after three weeks of continuous psychotherapy,
he was able to speak.
We would even ask ourselves questions,
like let's track our success.
Let's look at a water project,
and when we created the water project
is it really long lasting?
And we found that for example often the schools,
well the girls won't go,
or the water project would break
after a short period of time.
And so some of the established ways
that charities did things
around the world wasn't very sustainable.
Because we were so young,
we would sit with the community under the trees
for hours upon time and let them school us on the idea
that if you had to build a well,
you really have to build a small business next to it
so they could earn the income to repair the well.
Or if you build a school,
you have to make sure you do school lunch programs
and help with health projects
and make sure the kids can actually go to school.
And the more that we learned
the more that we realized
there's no magic bullet that ends poverty in the world.
There's no Sunday morning commercial,
but there are these simple solutions that
if very thoughtfully implemented,
in partnership with the community,
could actually end forever poverty.
We started to rebuild what is the modern day WE charity
with clean water and healthcare and food security
and education and small jobs,
opportunities for communities.
And we work in the villages,
who often was a high risk of human trafficking
or child labor around the world,
we work in these villages to prevent it from happening
by providing these pillars of development.
And the community is self-sustaining,
they take over the projects and we leave,
and it's truly that proverbial not a handout,
but truly a hand up sustainably.
As you can see as they strike the reservoir, oi!
Woo!
As you can see, they have struck the reservoir.
Thank you for your amazing support,
of Free The Children.
Woo!
Greg was called up by Oprah,
and she had a surprise,
and the surprise was a young boy
from Mountain Lake, New Jersey
came out with one of those large checks,
and it was the equivalent of building a school.
And said, Craig got him so inspired
he'd like to build a school,
he said join the class.
And Oprah stopped and paused and looked down at the check,
and looked up to Craig and looked down
at the track and looked up to Craig and said,
"That's how much it costs to build a school?"
And Craig said, "Yes, it's very viable,
we can build schools and help kids."
And she said literally, "I'm Oprah,
I'm gonna build 100 schools, we'll be right back."
And that phrase, that 15 seconds forever changed our life.
So not only did we build 100 schools,
her greatest gift wasn't actually the 100 schools,
even though it was a tremendous.
The greatest gift was the know-how,
the infrastructure, the support,
the ability to understand how to build the best schools.
How to do sustainable development,
how to have these UN experts all around us
at a drop of a hat we could call them and say,
we're having this issue can you help us figure out
how do we make sure that we increase the girl population,
or how do we retain our teachers,
how do we do clean water projects in the school.
The greatest gift was a development model,
the development model is called WE Villages.
We now do this in nine developing
countries all around the world.
We've lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty,
literally hundreds of thousands of people.
We've given clean water to over a million people,
and we've changed lives,
and we've done this with the help of amazing young people
in North America who have joined the cause,
who have given up their bake sale money,
or their birthday money,
who've done lemonade stands and garage sales,
just how we started out,
'cause they wanted to make a difference as well.
[Woman] Okay perfect, okay, bye.
In my 20s I went to an event,
and it was the first time I saw Craig Kielburger speak,
and it was the most inspirational speech I've ever seen,
to the point where it was probably
the first catalyst for my Archangel dream.
And I remember when we started planning our big event,
Archangel Summit,
the note I wrote in my journal was
I want to create the WE Day for grown-ups.
If he could do what he did at 12 years old,
anybody could change the world.
And it doesn't have to be a giant thing,
it could mean helping one person,
we all have that ability and Craig and Mark
now inspire millions of students
around the world to create change.
(crowd cheering)
- WE Day came about because it's what we wish
we had when we were at school.
It was super uncool to care,
and what we did sitting around the board table one day,
we said how do we make changing
the world the coolest thing you can do?
How do you make changing the world so cool that the kids,
the nerdy kids that want to change
the world become the cool kids.
And and all those other kids who are really cool
want to join them in changing the world.
So we came up with two strategies,
one, obviously we need to inspire the girls,
because if you inspire the girls you inspire the boys,
we know that.
But secondly is we wanted to have
these amazing stadiums come together
of young people engaging in social change,
and saying you know what,
we're going to make change the world socially acceptable.
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat music)
You're ready to make a difference,
can you make some noise?
(crowd cheering)
This year, the theme of WE Day, it's all about superheroes.
- Because who doesn't love a good superhero?
All yeah, I gotta ask,
any fans of "Black Panther" in the house?
Let's get loud for "Wonder Woman"?
(crowd cheering)
They are superheroes
because they have superhero powers, like compassion.
Empathy, also.
- The willingness to stand up for what is right.
That's what makes a WE superhero.
We've grown and grown and grown,
so now we have over 20 WE days a year all around the world,
typical stadium-sized events of 16,000 young people,
all the kids have earned their WE Day,
every single luminary, Nobel laureate,
everybody's come and supported WE Day,
and it's a way for them to give back
to say thank you to kids who are making
the world a better place.
- We will raise our voices, we will help those in need,
we will be.
[Crowd] Heroes!
Continue to find your tribe,
continue to find your tribe.
The great thing about the world that we're living in now,
which was different than when I was growing up,
was you are one keystroke away
to finding that other community.
There are so many pockets of them,
don't think you're alone,
'cause the very fact
that you're living through something
means that someone else is also living
through that exact same experience as well.
- And through your own conviction and your own belief
that the thing inside of you is valuable,
because the thing inside of all of us is valuable,
we can bring our passions to life
and ultimately change the world.
The wonderful part about WE
is it's designed so everyone can make a difference.
Our slogan is making doing good doable.
Our dream is very simple.
At the end of the day if every single person
just leaned in a little bit with their own unique gifts,
their own unique talents
and their own abilities to make a difference,
and if we could help enable that,
well that solves the problems of our world.
And if everyone around the world were willing
to open their eyes and open their hearts,
then there would be no more poverty,
there would be no more injustice,
and there would be no more abuse.
And that is the challenge which we all must face.
Through your words and through your actions,
set these children free.
Thank you.
(audience applauds)
How do you teach that intellectual
curiosity to your children?
It's not about teaching them the right answers,
it is about asking them to think about what is possible.
Today most people will look at this stuff and say,
my job is to take this kid to the water
but I just have to force him to drink
because that's really what's needed.
And I keep wondering what if we change our focus from that
to make the kids thirsty,
because when you make them thirsty,
you never have to take them to the water,
because they will find their own water and they will drink.
How do you make them thirsty?
Intellectual curiosities that create that thirst.
(light music)
- [Narrator] You were late for school this morning,
but then you're almost always like.
You're in a rut with a bad habit.
[Naveen] Here's the worst part,
a lot of the people who are just super super smart
and they really are bored with what they are learning.
- [Narrator] You weren't listening, you seldom do,
it's a habit of yours.
They are described as ADHD,
and they are now being drugged.
- [Narrator] Or do you always drum with your fingers?
I mean I can tell you that all three
of our children were considered ADHD,
and if you look at every one of them is kicking ass today.
Our 29 year old is now on the cover of every magazine,
our daughter started an AI company,
our youngest one just graduated from Stanford,
he's a Schwarzman Scholar.
What is it?
They did not have ADHD,
they just were smart and they learned very quickly
and people thought they had ADHD,
so my point is every single one of these dreamers,
you just have to keep bringing this intellectual curiosity,
don't kill that.
Every time they come back and say what if?
Ask them, yes, tell me what if?
- I'm deaf blind and people with disabilities know
what it's like to have your dreams squashed,
societies constantly saying no, you can do that.
It's too dangerous, it's not safe,
it's impossible.
(dramatic music)
There's this myth that if you have
a disability you automatically get a superpower,
that's not true.
There are lots of people with disabilities
who are lazy or don't have superpowers,
just like in the non-disabled community.
What sets one apart is the drive
to want to develop your skills.
I'll say it like this,
when she was born, the day that she was born,
the next day when I was looking at her
when I was holding her I could see her eyes were just like,
I'm not being facetious when I tell you this now,
her eyes indicated that she was ready to conquer the world.
(dramatic music) And her eyes were sparkling
and looking sideways and up and down,
she had no limitations in her body
when she was the first day or two old.
And that little moment gave me a feeling of,
this girl is not gonna have any problems, and she didn't.
If you spend time with Jessica,
you probably wouldn't even realize she didn't have arms,
she's just so adapted to using her feet for everything.
And so I knew, just by meeting her and talking to her,
I knew she could fly an airplane,
if she could do it mentally,
if she had the aptitude to do it.
- I remember when I found out Jessica was a pilot,
it was after we had had a party at a friends house,
and after the party we walked outside,
Jessica had left and a few of
us were just hanging out outside,
and somebody said, "You know I think I've seen her before,
I saw her on "Ellen" or something, she's a pilot?"
And I said, "What?
She flies an air?
She's a black belt."
Jessica took a class with me,
we've been training ever since
and now she's a fourth degree black belt,
and I am fifth degree black belt.
If you don't see limitations
the world will open up to you.
(light music)
You might want a shot of that, it's my favorite shirt.
I love the word dreamer because as a dreamer
you don't see limitations and you don't see obstacles,
you just see the big dream or the goal.
And my whole life has been kind of like that,
where I set little goals up and I don't see the negative,
I see the dream and it has allowed me
to pursue something without giving up.
My mom was a huge part of my life,
she really instilled in me that I could do anything.
Because there were times when I had doubts,
because people came to me and said you can't do that,
you don't have arms.
Or they doubted what I could achieve.
And having that kind of negative impact
from strangers or people who don't even know me,
it had an effect on me that made
me go to my mom and ask her,
"What can I do without arms?"
And she said, "You can do anything."
And she lives that motto as well.
I think I had phenomenal parents that gave me a foundation,
they listened to me, they talked to me,
and having that kind of support made me more resilient.
My wife passed away,
but while my wife was around,
she was very pleased with Jessica's progress I think,
and she stayed up tote 11 or 12 or one o'clock
in the morning studying her homework a lot of times.
I think she made mostly A's,
I don't know that she made any B's.
When I was in college I thought
I was gonna become a doctor,
I actually went in to do pre-med,
I did all the science courses
and then took organic chemistry,
which was supposedly the hardest class on campus,
and it took a couple of times to pass it.
But I realized well maybe
I should consider some other options,
and I decided to take some psychology classes,
I fell in love with psychology,
and I loved that connection
between how our attitude affects our lives.
And so I thought well why not consider becoming a speaker.
At the time it was really, really cold outside
and I was wearing a sleeveless vest,
it was obvious I didn't have any arms.
We were out in the snow and there's a stranger coming by,
and I started crying and I asked a stranger,
I said, Would you please help
me find my mittens, I can't find them?"
(audience laughs)
And we looked for them for 30 minutes
until she finally caught on,
and I'm like, "Got you."
(audience laughs)
- Well, we always want to know what's the A-Z route,
and we want to try and follow this worn route,
and it just doesn't work,
because of the level of disruption,
all these things are changing,
all these institutions changing.
So if you're looking at somebody and be like okay,
they took this path, they went to law school
and then they became less and then they did that,
you're gonna be 10 years out of date
by the time you get to where you want to go.
Be the weirdo,
we call them mavericks, misfits and weirdos,
be that kind of person because if you follow the norm,
you're pretty much only gonna get
to where the average or norm is.
I realized that being a memorable person
is actually beneficial as a speaker,
people will listen to you,
people will pay attention to you,
it will catch their attention.
But it wasn't until college
that I started to really embrace the difference.
And I like to use cups with handles, it makes it easier.
Jessica has really defined herself
as an independent person.
It's one of those things people think
It isn't possible because of her visible disability.
Part of her identity for so long was proving
to people that she could be independent.
She can get herself dressed and undressed,
she can brush her teeth in the morning,
she can comb her hair.
She can cook on the stove,
she can do dishes, she can assemble a salad,
she can use a keyboard and use a computer and a mouse.
Her phone will even recognize her toe print
as if it was a fingerprint and unlock for her.
- I like to play little games once in a while,
I'll be at the University rec center and I'll be swimming
and I'll jump in the pool and sink
to the bottom for a little bit,
and see if people.
(audience laughs)
I love to get the lifeguard's attention.
I was invited to a number of places locally in town
after an article came out
that said I wanted to become a speaker after college,
and one of those first places was a Rotary Club meeting,
and there at that Rotary Club meeting
a fighter pilot came up to me and said
"How would you like to go fly in an airplane?"
I'd never been in an airplane
my entire life, a small plane.
When I think back to that first flight,
it must have been that feeling
of a taste of controlling something in the air.
I'd been driven to be independent my whole life,
and I guess that feeling association of empowerment
and independence that I made with that first time flying,
I was connected and wanted to do more of it.
Jessica approached me and asked me
if I was interested in teaching her,
and I said sure,
and I asked her if she had driven to the flight.
And she said yes, she drove up there by herself
and I said well sure, I think if you drive
a car you ought to be able to fly an airplane.
This was a whole world of questions,
because no one had ever done this without arms
and hands and I didn't know if anyone
had attempted to fly a plane with their feet.
Pitch.
I can pull all the way out.
Push all the way in.
This is the throttle, kind of like the gas on a car.
In order to get your license you have
to be able to control the plane by yourself,
you have to be able to solo that plane,
and that requires the instructor
physically getting out of the plane,
and you taking over that airplane
and flying it like a safe pilot
and landing safely of course.
Yes, that scares me though.
I mean just flying was scary enough.
The day that she was supposed to solo,
we had a group of people at the airport.
Well, what happened was,
I don't know if she told you the story or not,
but here's the true story.
[Jessica] I invited all my friends
and family to the airport,
we had this catering at the nearby country club.
Jessica had several people,
media people and other people show up.
And it was too windy for her to solo.
- I don't think it was on her mind to fly that day,
or she was thinking about other things maybe.
- He did not feel I was ready to solo that day.
- [Parrish] I taxied out with her and I told her,
I'm not gonna let you solo.
Even if you're good enough I'm not gonna do it.
And she was a little bit upset I think at me.
- So I was bummed, I went home and slept the night.
- The next morning she went to the airport with her trainer.
- [Parrish] She got out their five in the morning,
and it was myself,
Jessica and two people that worked for me,
nobody else.
And he said, "Okay, you're ready now."
- [William] And she took off and did her solo.
- She did a beautiful job, but she went and missed.
She came around the first time to land,
she wasn't comfortable with it,
where it was stuck on the landing
so she zoomed back into the air.
Which is fine,
that's what she was trained to do,
she did exactly what she was supposed to do.
But of course it scared the heck out
of me as a flight instructor,
I'm like what are you doing, what are you doing?
But she did very well,
it was a great solo
and a great landing and she did very well.
- It's this incredible feeling of accomplishment,
it's like there's no other feeling
of independence and freedom up there.
I am the first certified armless pilot,
the Guinness World Record had to record it
as first female pilot to fly an airplane with her feet.
I don't understand why they have to say female,
because as far as I'm concerned
I don't know of any male who has done it,
so perhaps there's someone out there,
or they just had to do it for the purposes of the record.
I don't know, I should probably find out one day.
[Woman] Still, how does that feel
to have that kind of thing?
- [Jessica] I'm proud of the act in itself,
refusing to give up is like the story of my life,
and not taking no for an answer is every day for me,
because being born without arms,
people automatically assume there are limitations.
And as a dreamer, I don't see limitations,
this is all I've ever known
and I just learn to work with what I have,
and I find a way.
You look at Jessica Cox,
someone who dreams of being a pilot and has no arms,
and yet she figured out how to do it.
What an incredible inspiration for all of us.
To be told no and to find a way anyways.
Why not me?
Why not?
Why not me?
There's just no excuse for anybody to not win,
there just isn't.
There's someone who's had a worse situation than you
who has overcome it and won
at the highest level in everything.
In business, in finance, in life, in love, and everything.
There's the templates, just look at them,
pretending that you can't do it is all on you.
So I just go, why not me, yeah.
I think it's so hard to judge
your mess when you're a child,
because we all want to be accepted,
we all want to be liked.
I remember myself when I was a child,
I wanted people to like me more
than I wanted to be successful,
so I would hide my gifts,
I would hide my talents.
And I felt the guy had tall poppy syndrome,
I was actually quite tall,
but also other gifts I had I would hide them.
And so what I would say to kids
that know that they're special,
that know that they have something going on inside,
is that your mess is your message.
And it might be hard right now,
but ultimately the things that are the most painful
are the things that are gonna strengthen you,
and it's going to be the thing
that gives you superpowers when you're an adult.
It's a thing that's gonna make you unique
to stand out from the crowd,
which right now we might want to fit in,
but as we become adults
which relate how do we differentiate.
How do we highlight our uniqueness?
It's not about being perfect,
it's about advancing and progressing
beyond what you believe is currently possible.
And in my book limitless,
I introduce the limitless model,
and it's a Venn diagram,
three circles that intersect.
Three M's.
The first M stands for mindset.
Mindset.
Mindset I'm defining as what you believe you deserve,
what you believe is possible,
what you believe you are capable of.
The second circle is motivation,
and your motivation really is your purpose
and having energy to be able to achieve something.
And then finally, the third M is methods,
methods.
And these are the processes, the strategies,
the mechanics on how to for example read faster.
On how to remember another language,
on how to be more productive.
So as you're looking at this diagram
where you see mindset intersect with motivation.
You have something called inspiration,
you have inspiration, but it's the lacking the methods.
So you could be very inspired but you don't know
what to do, and that's a challenge.
Where motivation crosses over with methods,
you know what to do and you're motivated
to be able to use that,
this is the area, this crossover of implementation,
implementation.
Because you're motivated and you know what to do.
The challenge is you're missing the mindset,
so you're always gonna be capped
in terms of what you believe you're capable of,
and what you believe is possible,
and what you believe you deserve.
Now, if you have the mindset and the methods,
that area of crossover is ideation,
it stays in your mind and you're just having ideas about it,
But you're not doing something
because you're not motivated,
you're lacking the motivation.
Where you have all three of them combined,
you have the limitless state,
the fourth I is integration,
it's really who you are,
and that's the place that we want to be able to live from,
to be able to create from,
be able to dream from.
(crowd cheering)
♪ O say can you see, by the dawn's early light ♪
♪ What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ♪
♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪
♪ Through the perilous fight ♪
♪ O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪
I'm a "Los Angeles Times" reporter,
interviewing the first participant in Orlando
in I think 1997 or something saying,
"You know I never thought I could do anything,
and nobody thought I would be anything ever in my life,
and I was a member of the gang."
He was the head of his gang.
And because he got fired up through FIRST
he got admitted to college and graduated from Burghley,
and the reporter said, "What's the bandage?"
And the kids said, "I got my tattoos removed."
And the reporter said, "You got your gang tattoos removed?"
"Yeah."
"You don't need your gang?"
"No, I've got NASA."
And he is now back in his own neighborhood
helping kids that are in the same situation he was in.
Three, two.
It's not a science fair masquerading
as something that's fun,
science fairs aren't even fun for people that like science,
watching nerdy people do stupid things
on the folding bridge table in the basement
of a middle school is not fun, it's stupid.
Our speaker today needs
no introduction to this audience,
he holds hundreds of US and foreign patents.
Dean also received the National Medal of Technology
in 2000 while he was still a college student,
he invented the auto syringe,
an automatic infusion pump
that delivers precise doses of medication.
He invented what he is probably most famous for,
the Segway.
But really one of the most exciting things
is his incredible focus on education.
He founded FIRST For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology to achieve his education goals.
- Dean Kamen is an intellectual and energy fireball,
he's going 1000 miles an hour all the time.
He's always aimed over the horizon.
From the beginning, Dean was anxious to change the world.
He is the real life Iron Man.
He literally has a workshop in his house like Iron Man
where he builds and creates and invents.
One thing Dean Kamen inspired me with
is the idea that not everything is gonna work,
but it doesn't mean you don't try.
- At the risk of just embarrassing myself one more time,
I still gotta figure out why this thing
won't go into.
I have a feeling it might work now, let's see.
That's so annoying.
Look, I swear to you,
it climbs stairs.
But it certainly does stand-up.
You gotta imagine what it's like
to be able to just cruise up and down stairs,
climb over hills.
Look people in the eye.
I can lean on this bar, and have a beer with you.
In fact, when anybody like a beer.
On top I have Guinness, if you'd like any of that.
I got a call last week from a guy named Buzz Aldrin.
[Man] We've heard of him.
And Buzz Aldrin said,
"Dean, 50 years ago I walked on the moon."
Now he's having trouble walking.
[Man] He's having trouble walking.
- And he says, "I don't want to be in a wheelchair,
I want an iBot"
So I hope we're gonna present him with this
in New York on the 25th.
I was born at a young age,
I don't remember the event.
I did not know as a little kid,
I had no idea what other people
thought it meant to understand something.
And since I understood almost nothing around me
I felt chronically confused and stupid.
Then I went to school and I was told
at school is where you learn things.
So I figured they're gonna explain the world to me.
Well, it didn't seem to have that effect on me.
Did you know that George Washington was born in 1732?
I don't know why that fact is important,
but it's a piece of history.
But you know that the square root of three is 1.732?
And I'm looking in the math book at this table,
and I see 1.732.
What does George Washington have
to do with the square root of three?
What does the square root of three is 1.7, he was born in,
now they have no relationship to each other, none.
Today everybody calls it ADD, little kids have ADD,
Attention Deficit Disorder.
So I had my own disease, I had ASD.
I had Attention Surplus Disorder.
I hardly think that a mathematics class
is a place for that sort of thing.
They gave me Newton's laws, F equals MA.
And I'm told that Isaac Newton
was one of the greatest geniuses of all time.
Okay F is a number, it equals another number M times A.
This number equals this, times this.
It's just such a trivial equation, it's useless.
A equals B.
I got a great idea, A equals B times a constant.
It's a straight line.
So Isaac Newton is the greatest genius of all time,
and he gave us the simplest mathematical equation
you could possibly write that's not a trivial.
I don't think so.
So there's something
about that F equals MA thing I don't get,
but what he really said is that the motion of all bodies
no matter how big or small is proportional to the force.
He gives us a set of relationships
which turned out to be beautifully
elegantly simple to understand
by what happened to be a simple first order linear equation.
But then I'm thinking if he is such a genius
and it took his whole life to give us this stuff,
how come we got 45 minutes this week on this subject
between I don't know, again, phonics and reading.
And I'm supposed to understand in 45 minutes,
something that took the greatest genius of all time
a lifetime to do,
and then we're off to another subject.
But he wrote a book,
so I went and I got a copy of "Principia".
As you read this entire book
you'd start to see the context,
why was he thinking about inertia and force
and acceleration and the motion
of the planets and the motion of the moon.
And I did the same thing with Galileo, two new sciences.
I got a copy of Euclid's stuff,
and all that stuff is painstaking to read
and reread and break a pencil and try again,
and see now I really get it
and it is elegant and it is beautiful,
but by then they've gone through half
a lifetime in school and I didn't understand
that their definition of understand was different than mine.
- The current model isn't set up for everybody.
There are certain people that can thrive,
especially if you're good at memorizing.
And yet there's so much opportunity
for the education model to be changed, to be disrupted.
Where focus can go more towards helping younger people
uncover and discover what part are their superpowers,
and then a building curriculum around that.
(bell rings)
Preparing for the future must begin
as always with our children.
- 30 years ago everybody I know was saying,
we have an education crisis in this country.
Our children should master
the basic concepts of maths and science.
Why did they all say that?
Because there was data that said we are producing
way fewer engineers per capita
than any industrialized country,
in fact we're producing way fewer competent engineers
than most developing countries,
and they assumed it's the education crisis.
Well, if you misdiagnose your problem,
you're unlikely to solve it.
The United States spends far more per capita
on education that any country
in the world, we can afford to.
It's about 50% of our local taxes,
so we can't be let's put a little more money there,
if it was 1% you can double it and go to 2%,
if it's already half your money,
you're not gonna double it, right?
So I said let's assume for a second
it's not at all an education crisis,
it's a cultural crisis.
By the time they're five or six years old
every kids already got his head or his head full
of the serious role models that they want to emulate.
And it's not Archimedes and Einstein,
by the time they're five years old
any kid on any street anywhere can tell you
the name of a whole lot of people from the NBA,
the NFL, Hollywood,
they can tell you a whole lot of famous singers.
Go to a newsstand, every cover, it's either about sports,
it's about entertainment,
it's about beautiful women, that's it.
That's it.
- The vast majority of professional actors I know
are very unhappy at the cycle of auditions,
but the fact that they're not recognized,
but the fact that they're going
on Broadway pays the minimum wage.
Go learn to be a doctor,
because the deck is stacked against you,
and spending that time to be the one in a million
to play in the NBA,
in that amount of time we know you can
be an emergency room doctor,
and you can get prestige and money and satisfaction
and change people's lives,
and still play basketball every weekend.
(crowd cheers)
(commentator talks indistinctly over system)
A good inventor would never waste
his or her time reinventing
anything that already works.
You just systems integrate things
that other people spend billions of dollars developing.
(crowd cheers)
You know what works to inspire kids
to get really good at something?
Sports.
So I said why don't we just make science and technology
and engineering and mathematics and invented a sport.
FIRST, we are For the Inspiration
and Recognition of Science and Technology.
We're from Hawthorn High School,
bringing kids here gives them an experience
that they don't get in their small community.
We live in the middle of Los Angeles
right next to LAX Airport.
And most of them don't know
that the Pacific Ocean is right next to them.
We fly across the country,
we get to sit with all these different cultures
from around the world,
watching everybody fight the same challenges,
building robotics and coming up with way different answers.
I'm actually originally
from El Salvador in Central America.
A ranch in Oklahoma.
- From Israel. - Michigan.
I just go to the college.
Woo!
- It's really empowered me to try new things,
when I came onto the team, onto my FIRST team,
I didn't know what my place was
in high school or a life or anything,
but then I just kind of fell into place
on a FIRST team in a FIRST environment,
I would go to competitions, I would make new friends.
To me it's really important
that kids develop a self-image
that includes knowing
that they can do something that's hard,
knowing that they can do something that's creative.
Knowing that they can do something with others, for others.
And I think that that rational self-esteem
has to come from inside,
not because somebody else gave them
an A on a test, but because they know.
- Help me count it down, starting with three.
[Crowd] Two, one.
Go!
- [Commentator] And one more time (indistinct).
(crowd cheers)
- I read a statistic when my son was young,
about three years old,
that 66% of African-American male children
in Los Angeles go to prison.
So I knew that statistic that I got to beat.
Not on my watch.
So oftentimes I'm interviewed with what inspired you, Lisa?
And I say my inspiration is seasonal,
and seasons be five years, 10 years.
And my first inspiration wasn't
I wasn't aspiring to something,
I was outrunning something.
So it wasn't what I want to be Jim Rome,
I want to be Oprah,
no, it was my child will not see a prison,
and he will not lack and scarcity,
he will not fight the Harlem Crypt 30s,
and the Rolling 60s three days
a week to get home from school,
he will not, he will not, he will not.
And I will not, I will not.
So when I look at kids today
and they are in those environments,
I pray that a coach grabs them or a teacher grabs them,
or their parents protected.
Because in the little ordinary child
is an extraordinary dreamer fighting to get out.
I didn't rank on anybody's Richter scale as exceptional,
no one's.
I was a C student.
I was an average athlete.
So no one knew who I could become,
so it was really easy not to see me,
and I always say, watch out.
You might work for the C student one day.
About 15 years ago I'm in Israel
and I'm asked to go talk about something,
and one of the guys that was there was Shimon Peres,
and at the time he was
not the Prime Minister or the president,
he was between those two.
That he was a legend, he was a young man
at the time of about 80.
And I was saying we've got to get FIRST
into all the kids around the world.
This year, this year,
Little Israel had 1200 FIRST teams.
After about seven or eight years he calls me up,
he says Dean, I've watched
four generations of kids grow up in the Middle East,
four generations,
and I used to think the most important thing
to teach kids is history.
He said, "We have to stop teaching history,
because by teaching history every group
teaches their own kids their own history.
And they teach their kids their own truths,
and all their truths are different.
So by the time the kids see other,
they have different truths,
so they can't trust each other.
When you can't trust people, you're afraid of that.
When you're afraid of them, you want to kill them.
Dean, I've watched the FIRST teams,
and when I see these kids,
they're all learning the same truths.
Math is the same everywhere,
the laws of physics are the same everywhere,
and these kids are working together
and they're realizing they're all on the same team,
they all have to deal with global warming and cyber security
and food and healthcare,
and Dean, with these kids all learning is that if they
can master technology the way we do,
they can build their own gardens
and they won't have to fight over ours."
In my experience most often
the dreamers are told they're crazy,
they're weird, they stand out because of it.
And whatever their idea is,
they're often told that it's dumb
or crazy, never gonna happen.
And they have to fight that resistance
and fight all of the people around them
telling them not to do the thing to make it actually happen.
And then once it actually happens, they're brilliant,
and they're genius and they're all those things, right?
[Announcer] On this day 10 years ago,
a dream shipped by every human on every land
throughout all of history took flight.
Thanks to the vision of a small team
of bold and passionate space pioneers,
their dreams, our dreams have come true.
[Woman] Please welcome to the stage,
chairman and CEO of X PRIZE, Dr. Peter Diamandis.
(audience cheers)
(upbeat music)
- It is so wonderful to have all of you here,
it truly, truly is.
Just tremendous reunion of a family,
a family who dares to dream.
It really was an amazing journey of unknown 10 years ago,
because at first we had no idea
where the money was coming from.
Then we had no idea whether
we could really pull this thing off,
and then we had no idea
if we could pull it off by the deadline.
And then we didn't know if the vehicle,
you knew of course Bert,
but we didn't know that the vehicle
would actually work as advertised.
A friend of mine gave me a copy of Murphy's Law,
which he put on the wall across from me.
Murphy's Law is says if something can go wrong it will,
and that negative mindset really pissed me off,
so I went to my whiteboard and I wrote,
if anything can go wrong, fix it, to hell with Murphy.
(upbeat music)
I'm a child of the 60s and it was
the Apollo program going on that lit my heart on fire.
Here I am as a kid watching humans walking on the moon.
- [Neil Armstrong] That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
The dramatic achievements
in space which occurred in recent weeks,
should have made clear to us all,
impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere,
who are attempting to make
a determination of which road they should take.
- It was something which I thought my god that's incredible,
and I want to do that too.
And then this incredible television
show called "Star Trek" comes online,
and while Apollo was showing us what we're doing right now,
Star Trek is showing us where we're going.
What is possible in the next few hundred years.
And the culmination of that one-two punch lit me on fire,
wanting not only to go to space,
but to help make that future for humanity happen.
As I grew up I realized a few things,
number one, my chance of becoming
an astronaut were one in a thousand,
maybe one in 10,000.
[Narrator] The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration selected
three veteran astronauts as the crew of Apollo 10.
- [Peter] And then along the way as I met many astronauts,
I realized you know,
I don't actually wannabe a government astronaut,
I want to do this privately, that was my dream.
How do I open up space commercially.
There was one man who was so important
to the story because he gave me the gift of a book,
a Pulitzer Prize winner,
written in 1954 called "The Spirit Of St. Louis".
And my dear brother, Greg, give me that book
to encourage me to finish my pilots license,
which it did.
But as I'm reading that book
I was making note of how much money people were spending
trying to go after this $25,000 prize put
up by Raymond Orteig.
And I do the calculations,
and is $20,000 Orteig prize,
offered in 1919 inspires nine different teams
who spend $400,000 trying to win this $25,000 prize
to fly from New York to Paris non-stop,
and I'm doing the math and saying,
wow that's, he offered 25K,
there's 16 times that amount spent,
and he only pays the winner,
which is Lindberg,
which is the most unlikely person to do it.
And as I finished reading the book, I said that's it,
I'm gonna create a prize for private spaceflight.
I went to probably 150 benefactors
and sponsors asking them for support,
but I can't raise the $10 million,
which was the prize amount.
I went and pitched Fred Smith,
and I pitched 100 plus CEOs,
and I had the pleasure of pitching you twice.
Do you want to talk a little bit about the origins of that?
I'm normally known as doctor yes,
and I remember distinctly when you came to see me,
everything you said I should say yes,
and I don't know why no came out of my mouth.
But strangely if I had said yes,
we may not all have been sitting here today
with our spaceship in the hangar next door.
They all said, isn't as too dangerous?
Someone's gonna die,
why isn't NASA doing this?
And can we really pull it off?
I'd like to take a moment now to describe
three programs that we are announcing here today.
We announced this prize in May of 1996
under the Arch of St Louis.
The first is in fact the X PRIZE,
a $10 million contest that we are organizing here.
But I didn't have $10 million.
And this $10 million award will be going to the winner,
which is the first team to do the following.
And I didn't have any teams.
To privately build a spaceship,
privately finance that ship,
a ship that is able to fly to 100 kilometers altitude,
carry three individuals
and do that twice inside of two weeks.
Land safely, and within the same ship,
in two weeks do it again, you win $10 million,
don't care how you do it, as long as you do it.
(phone ringing)
- We were in Hawaii with my family on vacation,
and my assistant called me,
And she's like, "There's this guy who calls,
I keep telling him you are not here,
he's very persistent, he wants to meet you."
And I asked her, "What does he want?"
And she explained I don't know but I think he wants
to talk to you about space, something to do with space.
And that was the magic word,
and the first meeting we ever had was with you.
And you came in with all your presentation
materials and PowerPoint and very nervous,
and I didn't know at that time
that this was like the last prayer
that you had in saving the organization.
So we sat and we listened-
- Anousheh Ansari is an extraordinary woman,
she had just sold her company called Telecom Technologies
to Sonus Networks for $1.3 billion
and she sold the company, went on vacation
to Hawaii for I think six months,
I tracked her down.
- In all of my interviews I had always talked
about my passion for space and wanting
to be an astronaut and fly to space.
I saw her as the perfect person
to fund my X PRIZE after 150 people had said no.
Afterwards we said, this is the guy,
this is the guy who's gonna make
it happen and we became part of it.
- I believe it's a good thing to have a dream for yourself,
but very often people get stuck in what I call
the linear dreaming pattern,
which is they work hard on their dream,
they hustle, they make the sacrifices,
they pay their dues,
and then in hope to say one day I'll be prosperous,
I'll have some prosperity.
And what I'm saying is that we all have
the opportunity to not only be a dreamer for ourselves,
but it's our mission to also be a dreamer
for other peoples dreams.
To me it's the fastest way to fuel your prosperity.
It just resonated with me so much
because this is what I wanted to do all my life,
and I knew there were many others like me.
And it's not just me flying to space,
I figured that this would be a way to make a huge difference
to allow not just for me but everyone
like me to go to space,
and not just do it once,
we can become something like the airlines.
(dramatic music)
- People ask, when you give up on your dream?
And the answer is if it is your true passion,
what I call your massively transformative purpose,
the answer is never.
There's gonna be 100 nos or 1000 nos,
and you only fail when you give up if it is your true dream.
Why are you here on this planet,
what is it that drives you to want
to go and be everything you can be?
Ultimately, we had 26 teams from seven countries,
they spent $100 million in total to try to win
the $10 million prize,
and Matt Rutan,
backed by Paul Allen made the flight on September 29th,
and October 4th of 2004.
[Controller] 10 seconds.
- Ready, Matt? - Yes.
Being a dreamer is,
giving your soul permission to fly, to take flight.
Playing with anyone who shows up.
[Controller] Three, two, one, release.
[Matt] And release.
(dramatic music)
Don't qualify your playmates,
play black, white, Christian, Jew.
Play.
(crowd cheers)
A dreamer is a unicorn who has to listen to your own sound,
fall in love with your own beat,
because it's not gonna be like anyone else's.
And then share your beat with others.
Share your rhythm with others.
[Matt] And fire.
You choose,
you choose to see the unseen,
say the unsaid and do the undone.
(upbeat music)
♪ You'll never guess the places that I've been ♪
♪ Because everything is like a dream ♪
♪ Yeah, but only in my dream I win ♪
♪ I'm never gonna let today begin ♪
♪ Never gonna let today begin ♪
♪ Because everything is like a dream ♪
♪ Yeah, but only in that dream that I live in ♪
♪ Oh don't Wake me up before you go ♪
♪ And I'll just make this bed my home ♪
♪ Oh darling please just let me free ♪
♪ Give me my dreams ♪