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my big idea is a very very small idea

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that can unlock billions of big ideas

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that are at the moment dormant inside us

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and my little idea that will do that

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is sleep

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this is a room of type a women

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this is a room of sleep deprived women

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and i learned the hard way the value of

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sleep

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two and a half years ago i fainted from

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exhaustion i hit my head on my desk i

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broke my cheekbone i got five stitches

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on my right eye

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and i began the journey of rediscovering

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the value of sleep

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and in the course of that

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i studied i met with medical doctors

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scientists and i'm here to tell you

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that the way to a more productive more

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inspired more joyful life is getting

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enough sleep

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and we women are going to lead the way

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in this new revolution this new feminist

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issue

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we are literally going to slip our way

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to the top literally

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because

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unfortunately for men sleep deprivation

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has become a virility symbol

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i was recently having dinner with a guy

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who bragged that he had only gotten four

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hours sleep the night before

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and i felt like saying to him but i

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didn't say it i felt like saying you

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know what if you had gotten five this

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dinner would have been a lot more

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interesting

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there is now a kind of sleeve

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deprivation one-upmanship

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especially here in washington if you try

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to make a breakfast date and you say how

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about eight o'clock they are likely to

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tell you eight o'clock is too late for

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me but that's okay you know i can get a

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game of tennis in and do a few

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conference calls and meet you at eight

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and they think that means that they are

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so incredibly busy and productive but

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the truth is they're not

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because we at the moment have had

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brilliant leaders in business in finance

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in politics

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making terrible decisions

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so a high iq does not mean that you're a

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good leader because the essence of

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leadership is being able to see the

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iceberg before it hits the titanic

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and we've had far too many icebergs

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hitting our titanics

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in fact

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i have a feeling that the lehman

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brothers was lehman brothers and sisters

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they might still be around

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while all the brothers were busy you

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know just being hyper-connected 24 7

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maybe a sister would have noticed the

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iceberg because she would have woken up

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from a seven and a half or eight hours

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sleep

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and have been able to see the big

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picture

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so as we are facing all the multiple

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crises

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in our world at the moment

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what is good for us on a personal level

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what's going to bring more joy gratitude

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effectiveness in our lives

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and be the best for our own careers

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is also what is best for the world

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so

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i urge you

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to shut your eyes

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and discover the great ideas that lie

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inside us

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to shut your engines and discover the

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power of sleep thank you

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25 of the world's food supply is lost to

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spoilage that's 458 billion dollars

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worth every year on a smarter planet

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we're building intelligence into

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physical things

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so we can know how far our foods travel

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monitor temperature all the way to the

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market i know it got to the table fresh

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it's already happening in places like

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canada norway and vietnam when we make

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food smarter we make it safer that's

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what i'm working on i'm an ibmer let's

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build a smarter planet