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But perhaps it's time we start thinking about climate change on the same visceral level that we experience the air.

How many of you have used an electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel?

Very good. Now, how many of you have run a business with a spreadsheet by hand, like my dad did for his small printing business in Philadelphia? A lot less.

So I decided to build a prototype

This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes

I'm driven by my passion.

if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

To be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it.

I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing

Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've got to push, push, push. You've got to push through shyness and self-doubt.

Persistence is the number one reason for our success. You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through crap! Which of course means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure

I've been blown away by the whole thing

so let’s put a little time in now to make sure

There was a very important study done a while ago at Princeton Theological Seminary that speaks to why

You know, I'm struck by how one of the implicit themes of TED is compassion

I'm a psychologist, but rest assured, I will not bring it to the scrotal.

The more interesting question is: Did it matter they were contemplating the parable of the Good Samaritan?

That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them

I was doing my taxes the other day, and I got to the point where I was listing all of the donations I gave, and I had an epiphany