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Importance of Public Education (05:20)
Thomas Friedman’s Educational Experiences (06:09)
- Mr. Friedman’s articles on New York Times
- A beautiful tribute to Hattie Steinberg by Friedman
Reshaping of our World (08:45)
- “Now is the time to understand more so that we can fear less.” - Marie Curie
- 3 Climate Changes at once: Mother Nature, Market, Moore’s Law
- Exponential growth
Moore’s Law - Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel (09:42)
Technology accelerating at a pace that humans can’t adapt (13:40)
- Graph that Astro Teller, Google X, drew on Friedman’s wall
Mother Nature - Resilience & Propulsion (14:21)
- An Interview with Mother Nature
- Questions for us to apply to education within these characteristics (17:32)
- #ClearTheAir on Twitter - from the amazing @ValeriaBrownEDU and team
- Teaching Tolerance
- Episodes with Manoush Zomorodi / Cal Newport / Natalie Wexler
- Friedman’s CV
Lifelong Learning (21:45)
- Self-motivation divide: Owning Your Own Future - single most important competitive advantage
Advice to his daughters (23:12)
- Think like an immigrant - Paranoid Optimism
- Think like an artisan - from The Goldens @ Harvard
- Think like a starter-upper in Silicon Valley - Reid Hoffman - Always be in Beta (Skyline High School STEM Academy)
- CQ + PQ > IQ
- Think like a waitress at Perkins Pancake House in Minneapolis - be relentlessly entrepreneurial
Identity in the reshaped world (30:25)
- Friedman on the new grid
- Binary bias
- Myth of hemispheric dominance in the brain
- Personality Tests (Myers-Briggs: Vox, Adam Grant)
The Golden Rule (33:16)
- Friedman on the golden rule
- Marigolds, Jennifer Gonzalez
The Eye People (34:13)
- Brandi Carlisle - The Eye
  - Refrain: “I wrapped your love around me like a chain, but I never was afraid that it would die. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you’re standing in the eye.”
- Dynamic stability - Astro Teller on dynamic stability

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