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ENGLISH SPEECH | ANAND MAHINDRA: Purpose in Life (English Subtitles)
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if everyone's problems were like laundry
hanging out to dry in an open field and
you had the opportunity to go out into
that field and exchange your laundry
your problems in other words with anyone
else's you would still choose your own
problems I'm I'm not the usual suspect
class day speaker for sure I come from
another profession the often
undiplomatic world of Commerce I come
from halfway the world I'm not an
alumnist but when I asked Dean kite she
said the reasons for which they invited
me were in fact all of the
above but I'm not here to try and
dispense any unique wisdom as the
proverbial school girl wrote Socrates
was a wise Greek philosopher and he went
around dispensing gratuitous
advice and they poisoned
him so I deeply fear that fate so what I
will do is to just throw some ideas at
you based on my own life experience and
my own world that I hope will be
relevant to any profession and to every
life now picture if you will the world
in 1946 when my fathers stood here the
second world war had just ended
Independence for India was just around
the corner as Rachel mentioned the
beginning of the end of colonialism was
in sight and details of the full extent
of the death and the destruction and the
horrors of the Holocaust of Hiroshima
and nagas Sami Nagasaki they were just
emerging the problems of Peace were
every bit as convoluted as the problems
of war and to my father in
1946 the world must have looked hopeful
but immensely
complicated and yet I wonder what my
father would say about the world as we
see it today we are wrestling with
climate change pandemics terrorism
energy crisis social inequities to name
just a few and because of their
transborder impact these issues too now
fall within the Ambit of diplomacy of
international Affairs of international
law and what would my father have made
of the impact of
technology in many cowboy movies the
appearance of the hero or villain is
often preceded by his
shadow we now have a new cowboy in town
heralded by a lengthening Shadow the
shadow of the
metaverse entrepreneurs are buying up
real estate on it countries are opening
up virtual embassies in it and through
the metaverse we can live not just a
virtual second life but also a parallel
life where the virtual intersects with
reality and the boundaries between the
too grow more and more
blurred now in many ways it may actually
enhance the effectiveness of
diplomacy virtual face-to-face
negotiations may become as effective as
in-person ones Global Summits and indeed
side conversations where you can
interact virtually where you can smell
the coffee almost can lead to both
quicker responses and actually make a
dent in climate
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