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Full video: How to start a movement | Derek Sivers

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so ladies and gentlemen at Ted we talk a

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lot about leadership and how to make a

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movement so let's watch a movement

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happen start to finish in under 3

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minutes and dissect some lessons from it

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first of course you know a leader needs

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the guts to stand out and be

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ridiculed but what he's doing is so easy

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to follow so here's his first follower

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with a crucial role he's going to show

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everyone else how to follow now notice

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that the leader Embraces him as an equal

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so now it's not about the leader anymore

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it's about them plural now there he is

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calling to his friends now if you notice

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that the first follower is actually an

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underestimated form of leadership in

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itself takes guts to stand out like that

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the first follower is what transforms a

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lone nut into a leader

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and here comes a second follower now

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it's not a lone nut it's not two nuts

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three is a crowd and a crowd is news so

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a movement must be public it's important

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to show not just the leader but the

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followers because you find that new

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followers emulate the followers not the

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leader now here come two more people and

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immediately after three more people now

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we've got momentum this is the Tipping

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Point now we've got a movement

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so notice that as more people join in

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it's less risky so those that were

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sitting on the fence before now have no

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reason not to they won't stand out they

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won't be ridiculed but they will be part

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of the In Crowd if they hurry

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so over the next minute you'll see all

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of the uh those that prefer to stick

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with the crowd because eventually they

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would be ridiculed for not joining in

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and that's how you make a movement but

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let's recap some lessons from this so

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first if you are the type like the

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shirtless dancing guy that is standing

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alone remember the importance of

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nurturing your first few followers as

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equals so it's clearly about the

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movement not

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you okay but we might have missed the

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real lesson here the biggest lesson if

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you noticed did you catch it is that

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leadership is over

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glorified that yes it was the shirtless

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guy was first and he'll get all the

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credit but it was really the first

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follower that transformed lone nut into

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a leader so as we're told that we should

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all be leaders that would be really

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ineffective if you really care about

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starting a movement have the courage to

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follow and show others how to follow and

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when you find a lone nut doing something

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great have the guts to be the first one

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to stand up and join in and what a

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perfect place to do that Ted thanks

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[Applause]

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in 25 years Global energy consumption

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will increase by

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50% to meet demand we'll need to harness

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the power of sun wind waves atoms

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they're all on the table but today we

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need oil

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[Music]

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I'm Mike Davis I'm the drilling manager

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with repol Gulf of Mexico we're out here

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in 4,000 ft of water in Green Canyon 304

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drilling the Anga Stewart Prospect about

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a 29,000 ft Subs salt well Big Technical

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challenge that's why we got a big rig

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like the Cajun Express on

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it one of the challenges that the oil

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industry has is finding new oil cuz all

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of the easy oil has been used

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up finding oil is is becoming more

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difficult and difficult because is

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always deeper and deeper and deeper more

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and more the industry requires deep

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Computing to find that deep

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oil we have tools downhole that evaluate

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the rock while we're drilling it this

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data is being sent up just about

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instantaneously while we're drilling 5

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miles down below the surface the

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Barcelona supercomputing Center is a Val

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resource for repol because it allows

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them to Crunch those numbers and

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generate those images that allows them

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to find the oil I am in the Barcelona

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super Computing Center and we are here

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working to generate the new generation

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of seismic Imaging tools because the

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quality of the data on a prospect that

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we're drilling today we're able to

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reveal deposits that we had never been

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able to see before to find this oil we

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need to use Machines of this size with

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more than 10,000 processors to process

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the data that to generate the IM of the

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Gulf of Mexico what we've done with

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repol is to develop a system that is now

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the fastest seisc Imaging system in the

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world is there any oil in this picture

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in this picture there is oil right down

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here through using supercomputers we'll

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be able to reduce the time to finding

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new oil reduce the cost of finding that

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oil and make existing and new reservoirs

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more efficient in producing oil these

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are reserves that we may not have

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recovered in the past we have to move to

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more sustainable fuels in the future it

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takes time and in the meantime we need

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to find the oil that we can to supply

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the Earth's needs

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