Why I am a lucky person.
Posted on | September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
Over the past 2 months as Giorgio Ungania and I have been working on this thing, TEDxDubai, I have had to pinch myself, almost hourly, to realize that this is really happening, an amazing event using the READY-FIRE-AIM methodology of Tom Peters.
And there is also Natascia, Habiba and Pervaiz to recognize as making this whole thing happen!
What really drives home the energy of TEDxDubai is what people are saying to get an invitation. Here is great example of what people are saying!
We live in a world where many ask – when ignorance is bliss, why do some seek knowledge? My answer to that is: most of us know next to nothing about virtually everything. It’s not necessary to know the purpose of our lives on earth or the origin of it all, but it is necessary to WANT to know. Its not hardwork and discipline that makes the world tick, its Passion and curiosity. Our civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to CRAVE knowledge.
It is to satisfy this craving, craving for ideas, that i want to attend TEDx.
Good ideas are common, but, its uncommon to meet people who dare to live their ideas. This is the essence of TEDx-sters – and 10th Oct will be a date, that i want to look back to and say: I’m glad i lived it.
TEDxDubai is not about politics, economics, gender or any particular individual, it is about the ideas and the energy to dream and act that these ideas can provoke.
Imagine if everything we do, every event we attend, every lecture we sit through put passion for the idea as the only thing it was trying to push?
Passion for the idea as the agenda!
Well, TEDxDubai is that event and it is like this because that is what those attending want.
Imagine a room of optimists and the potential to change anything simply through the passion for an idea?
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September 26th, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
Wow
What an amazing and thoughtful piece of writing with such passion at its core. Sounds like the kind of person I would love to know 
It would be interesting to further discuss the idea of ideas… are they separate from individuals? I mean, someone has to come up with an idea in the first place right? To whom does an idea belong before it’s shared? I would have thought it belongs to the individual. Then once it’s shared… hmmmm…. to everyone? How does this fit with things such as intellectual property, copyright, patents, etc.? All interesting questions.
On the other hand, in her February 2009 TED Talk on creativity (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html), Elizabeth Gilbert spoke about the fact that the ancient Greeks and Romans believed that:
“…creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”
What a fascinating thought! I wonder how much truth there might be in it…?
Regarding sitting through lectures, talks, and the like, I think you’re right, passion for the idea is fundamental to capturing the attention and imagination of the audience.
On the issue of gender, I’m searching for common ground and I hope to learn more about your thoughts and perspective. Do you think, for example, that both women and men are equally likely to generate innovative ideas?
Some say conflict / tension is integral to the creative process…
September 26th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
P.S. I like the fact that your blog comments bit makes automatic hyperlinks… wish mine did that…