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Reinvigorated with that sense of urgency? >> typically, it takes a person in a position of authority, literally a flight attendant, literally captain chesley sullenberger, literally a person of power to tell the 80% of us who dont know what to do, who are bewildered in a stupor, waiting for someone to tell us which way to go, it takes a person or a group of people, 10% us, 10% of us know what to do, 80% of us dont. and 10% of us do the wrong thing. it needs a group of leaders. >> it is fascinati...

401(k) is crashing or you are behind on your mortgage. people who dont want to face reality, they do something known as milling in disaster situations, they look around and see, is anything bad happening? gather information. but they dont take action. what joshuas describing in china, that sense of urgency, people survive when they feel the urgency and when they move toward plan a. and if plan a. fail, they take plan b. urgency is an incredibly important part of survival. people who survive chal...

That doesnt sound good if you are american. >> i think it depends on how you construe -- i think the lesson of the world is that the american model, what we used to call the washington consensus, as long as you opened mcdonalds and disneylands everybody, everyone was going to be like us. but you can live in tehran and have lipstick and still want nuclear weapons. they are not mutually exclusive. >> the big mac is not enough? >> a whopper with cheese, with a special on fries -- >> well -- >> then...

Reinvigorated with that sense of urgency? >> typically, it takes a person in a position of authority, literally a flight attendant, literally captain chesley sullenberger, literally a person of power to tell the 80% of us who dont know what to do, who are bewildered in a stupor, waiting for someone to tell us which way to go, it takes a person or a group of people, 10% us, 10% of us know what to do, 80% of us dont. and 10% of us do the wrong thing. it needs a group of leaders. >> it is fascinati...

That doesnt sound good if you are american. >> i think it depends on how you construe -- i think the lesson of the world is that the american model, what we used to call the washington consensus, as long as you opened mcdonalds and disneylands everybody, everyone was going to be like us. but you can live in tehran and have lipstick and still want nuclear weapons. they are not mutually exclusive. >> the big mac is not enough? >> a whopper with cheese, with a special on fries -- >> well -- >> then...

401(k) is crashing or you are behind on your mortgage. people who dont want to face reality, they do something known as milling in disaster situations, they look around and see, is anything bad happening? gather information. but they dont take action. what joshuas describing in china, that sense of urgency, people survive when they feel the urgency and when they move toward plan a. and if plan a. fail, they take plan b. urgency is an incredibly important part of survival. people who survive chal...

401(k) is crashing or you are behind on your mortgage. people who dont want to face reality, they do something known as milling in disaster situations, they look around and see, is anything bad happening? gather information. but they dont take action. what joshuas describing in china, that sense of urgency, people survive when they feel the urgency and when they move toward plan a. and if plan a. fail, they take plan b. urgency is an incredibly important part of survival. people who survive chal...

Sense of urgency. there is very few places where you find people feeling that. in beijing, its such an exciting city right now. the intellectual life is electric with people trying to figure out how they are going to manage this tremendous project forward. they are thinking the unthinkable. see, we seem to just be -- you tell me, ben, survivors dont do this. they -- we seem to just be holding on. just hold on. just hold on. dont let it collapse. hold on. survivors say, let the damn thing collaps...

Reinvigorated with that sense of urgency? >> typically, it takes a person in a position of authority, literally a flight attendant, literally captain chesley sullenberger, literally a person of power to tell the 80% of us who dont know what to do, who are bewildered in a stupor, waiting for someone to tell us which way to go, it takes a person or a group of people, 10% us, 10% of us know what to do, 80% of us dont. and 10% of us do the wrong thing. it needs a group of leaders. >> it is fascinati...

The culture to -- to be reinvigorated with that sense of urgency? >> typically, it takes a person in a position of authority, literally a flight attendant, literally captain chesley sullenberger, literally a person of power to tell the 80% of us who dont know what to do, who are bewildered in a stupor, waiting for someone to tell us which way to go, it takes a person or a group of people, 10% us, 10% of us know what to do, 80% of us dont. and 10% of us do the wrong thing. it needs a group of lea...