Name: 【TEDx】Why the majority is always wrong | Paul Rulkens | TEDxMaastricht
Uploaded: 2018-01-30T05:46:27.000Z
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In 1942, Albert Einstein was teaching at Oxford University,

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and one day, he just gave an exam of physics

He was walking on the campus with his assistant,

and all of a sudden, the assistant looked at Albert Einstein and said,

"Dr. Einstein, this exam which you just gave

isn't that exactly the same exam you gave to exactly the same class

"Yeah, yeah," said Albert Einstein, "it's exactly the same."

"But Dr. Einstein, how could you possibly do that?", the assistant said.

"Well," said Einstein, "the answers have changed."

In other words, what is true for 1942 is even more true for today.

We live in a world where the questions might be the same,

In other words, what has got you here, will no longer get you there.

And if you want to have results that you've never had before,

well, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key question for today is of course: Is there a method to the madness?

Is there a way that each of us can do impossible things

The good news is that the answer to that question is 'yes.'

is when it comes to high performance, why the majority is always wrong,

to get everything you can out of everything you've got.

But let me first introduce you to something interesting,

When people, teams, and organizations, whenever they hit a wall,

they either do more of the same things, or they do less of the same things.

is that they start to do different things instead.

It's interesting, if you look at the data,

approximately three per cent of people  are inclined to even do different things.

The remaining 97% continues to smash into the wall,

like some kind of crazy energy bunny on steroids.

To understand what's going on here, we need to ask another question.

The question we need to ask ourselves is: What is the purpose of thinking?

If you ask that question to a brain scientist,

"Well, the purpose of thinking is to stop thinking."

The purpose of thinking  is to stop thinking.

Thinking is a high energy activity; it takes a lot of energy to think.

So whenever we think, we try to think as short as possible,

Over 95% of our life, we run on automatic pilot.

For example, if you've ever driven a car,

and then realize, whoa! What did I do in the past half hour?

Many of you right now are listening to me on automatic pilot.

Here's the thing, if your brain is on automatic pilot,

this leads to what scientists call mental myopia,

If you have tunnel vision, that's a bit of a problem

because it confuses people about their own performance.

This is the reason that many people go through life

who sits in his car, looks in his rear-view mirror,

and is so far behind that they think they are first.

In other words, ladies and gentlemen, we tend to think inside the box,

and the box is a very good metaphor, here.

you see that the boundaries of this box are very well defined.

We think inside defined boundaries. I'll give an example.

One boundary is a legal boundary, and we think within the legal framework.

Very few of you would think of stealing the wallet of the person next to you

We think in legal boundaries, but there are other boundaries as well.

We think in technological boundaries, in physical boundaries,

Because the reality is that the box in which we think looks more like this.

For those of you in the back who cannot see it,

Let me illustrate how small this box can be.

For example, if I would say tonight, "Let's have something to eat,

have dinner tonight, what would be options to do that?"

Probably you come up with, "Let's buy some pizza,"

"Go to a restaurant," "Cook at home," all kinds of cool ideas.

But I believe that very few of you would raise their hand and say,

see if we can pick up some dead animals on the side of the road

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