I think there's a lot of opportunity for all of us to recognize how much we have around us to truly appreciate, and to acknowledge the opportunities that maybe we take for granted. And gratitude is so simple and straightforward, yet powerful, that I actually want to give you guys all a chanceto just try this out and practice this skill right now.
different things. Here's a way to tangibilize this. Take for instance my daughter Georgia, who I love dearly.All right, because she's the best.
There was no internet. take for you to get really cold and start shivering.
that you can see in the animal kingdom. Take for example gorillas, with an alpha gorilla, who's the dominant, and the want to be.You can even see in families, as one child who's shorter than the other one, all of a sudden sprouts.
I assume all of you guys have worked in teams in your life. take for a person to become a dentist?
allowed to exist. And I wanted to address that for a minute because that's a very logical point. So take for example something that I got wrong, and I talked about this quite a bit because I saw things like the racism of my youth, and I grew up during the busing era and all in the family, all that stuff where society is trying to iron out a whole bunch of long-term problems. It's been dealing with it, and iron it out publicly, right? And I, like many of my generation, thought that
Everything is fantastic. You must have been tired, just reworking your entire brain, your body, the heightened senses that when you have sight, you take for granted, and now having to double down on those. Those first few years must have been almost exhausting too as you just built new muscles, frankly, around these other senses that so many of us take for granted.
Just, everyone watching here, you've got to remember that we take for granted Big Bird. We take for granted Oscar the Grouch. But she told the story of when she got her job, when she was cast in "Sesame Street" in 1969.
Just trying to get people to think differently about water, to get people to think differently about the absence of water, this thing that so many of us just take for granted because we have never not known water. Water everywhere. We put dirty water in baby bottles and asked parents to imagine potentially
So I'm from the Washington DC area. We take for granted that we have 17 intelligence agencies in Washington now. We had none of that at the beginning of World War II, when we are suddenly sending so many young American men
But there are things you can do. never take for granted.
And so yes, that's another possibility. Like take for example Heifer International.
But the thought was that the only way to get the money was to control it and the only way to control it was through copyright. They take away what we at Google take for granted, which is that we can change things that don't work.
misconception both of adolescence and of its literature and the question also seems to take for granted two things one that adolescent experience itself is less worthy of discussion than adult experience and two that teenagers are less worthwhile readers than adults in other words if you're going to write
problem. Now, meaning in ordinary life is like an atmosphere that's losing its that people used to take for granted. We need to live like my great-grandfather, like my father, like I did before the
need to take for all these things. And I want to talk about nutrition, protein, weight training, etc. But before that, you've got five
And let's just take for a moment religious art, where we need to know the story.
that we take for granted, right?
How long did it take for you to factorize an integer 100 digits long?
I sometimes take for granted, honestly, that animated films have a musical element.
What does it take for you to be confident enough to be in a room like this, and address people, and talk
so many of us take for granted on a daily basis.
But we never take for granted that we have team members now, because we know what it was like packing boxes until 2:00 in the morning with our own hands,
how quickly did it take for mammals to get big, for Earth to recover?
How long does it take for you to know about it?
And what does it take for millennials to learn from them in order to replicate that in whichever way we think as entrepreneurs, as managers,
So we start to take for granted that what we're doing, everyone's doing, but indeed, that's not exactly the case.
Or what did you take for the inspiration of the characters?
They should not take for granted any progress that's been made.
That's something we take for granted.
You just take for granted everything that they had been holding up.
How long does it take for you to draw one episode and which aspect of your work is the most time consuming? Do you have assistants? If so, what is their role?
that we kind of take for granted that everybody knows.
that we take for granted in our lives.
that people take for granted as part of their conscious experience.
I want to take a look at what is it going to take for adaptation?
The things we take for granted are fish-out-of-water experiences for teenagers from under-resourced Chicago communities.
How long does it take for the lily pads to cover half the lake?
What does it take for a mind to produce the kinds of things that Claude Shannon produced?
So you take one of the most important inventions of humankind, agriculture, it's a hard concept that we take for granted.
And we take for granted oh yeah, you know, light heating metals makes things happen.
They could take for granted the rest of the network was going to work.
They could take for granted they could do something very narrow and specialized, and take for granted everything else.
Please don't take for granted in the professions that people will embrace technology very rapidly We have a very resistant group of users.
I assume all of you guys have worked in teams in your life. How long does it take for a person to become a dentist?
that maybe people take for granted.
What we take for granted, and we know as the absolute basis of funding for journalism.
And the things we take for granted, the simple things that we take for granted, that our mother passes on to us.
that we take for granted in the modern urban world.
And if you take for example a rainbow, you have the rainbow with a million colors-- in your mind, seven colors.