I grew up in the myth of the self made
man
this belief that says that every man
can succeed and thanks to his merit
staff from scratch or from
little that meritocracy was the only
way to flourish in life for
to succeed one had to cultivate
excellence and being the best
I have always been a student in the
high average
but I was that kind of student who
during the group work was
never satisfied with the work of my
comrades and I felt all the time
obliged to iron behind them I
then asked them only on
results
considering life as a work that
must be completed with a goal
forgetting the essential steps to
its construction
I learned that always wanting to be
the best was very bad when
I put 100% of my free time at the
creation of my company
at first the experience is exciting
I could put everything into practice
that I had seen in class and even more
again but very quickly there was a
problem
I felt all the time I asked
did not have a minute to me it’s
as I became aware of my
mistake I arrive at not only all
just because my personal time
is limited every day I have
work on my project but I ‘m going
also eat sleep see my friends see
my family and then find myself alone
it’s important to be dirty sometimes
working on my project I got
realized that I only had 24
hours in my day is so 24
maximum hours allowed to my project
it’s the personal time this time can
to be used in different ways
acquiring knowledge
networking work on his heart
professional development
not to mention the indispensable time that
is not dedicated to the project but 24
hours in a day
if ultimately not enough to build
an impacting and sustainable project so I
asked myself a question where can we
go get the time to do
grow our projects by asking myself this
question I immediately thought about
associations in France there are more than one
point 3 million associations
gathering more than 16 million
people
each member share a vision and a
common commitment that allows them to
to invest a few hours so
volunteer in 2017
the accumulated budget of associations in
France was 85 billion euros 85
billion you realize
it’s the equivalent of 25 aircraft carriers
or 400 airbus aircraft
so I realized one thing accomplish
small actions collectively
multiply the value of our time this
time given to us by the
people excited about our ideas
our projects or affected by our actions
well I’m going to name it
the time of collective commitment the time
collective commitment
it’s the sum total of the time that has
been accumulated by all
people who helped us to
take project if we want to build
something bigger than yourself it
necessary to appeal to others and
of co build time together
of collective commitment it is
potentially infinite it is only
limited to the number and nature of
relationships we have with our
similar
I give you a very quick example
if we had to count all the time
passed by world of players
warcraft the online game since its
creation
do you know what we would get 6
millions of years in all that’s good 6
million years that have been
passed by the players on this game so
we had to cumulate all the time and the
bring back to a single time line
then go back in time humanity
would look like that
so I made myself a reason
the myth of the self made man is dead and
buried
in fact he never existed
it suited well at the time of the
first American pioneers for
tell the story of those who have
built empires by the strength of their
arms
in a country where everything was to be created
but today we know that
contractors can not succeed
alone is the commitment of their
community and their network that will do
the difference
the future of entrepreneurship will be more
humanized and collaborative each
individual interview a course of revin
a fabric of relationships forgiveness solidarity
of his career and which allowed him
to get here
I will now tell you two
stories the first story is
takes place in February 2010 is melanie
sega a girl with Down syndrome of 21
years dream
like every night to present the
weather on TV all sound
entourage knows that no
TV channel will give him a
chance to appear on the screen
this one preferring to recycle old
dummy or launched the career of
young actors a melanie she
do not discourage
and to fulfill her dream she decides
to create a facebook page on this
page
she launches a challenge if my page reaches
100 me like
then you will introduce me
weather for one night
guess the following forty eight hours
after the launch of his facebook page
one hundred and twenty thousand people had
joined his community
five days after the launch of his
page to facebook page already had more
two thousand two hundred and fifty thousand
mention I love to his credit unimaginable
among the 250 thousand people who saw
the melanie page there were two
tv channels bfm tv and
France 2
both offered him the
possibility to present the weather
on their channel
in the space of a week melanie is
gone from impossible dream in his
room to have to choose on which
chain
she had presented the weather
finally melanie chose france 2 and
two weeks later on March 14, 2017
melanie realizes in dreams if we do
tulle 250000 like putting on average
thirty seconds it’s 21 thousand hours
commitment of approximately 13 years to
full time is the very example of a
project that was realized thanks to
accumulated small shares that would not
never could be done alone
today melanie is still working
in the same business debt by the
work but with something extra
she shares with 250 thousand others
people
the feeling that commitment time
collective is the solution to help
other
the second story it takes place
in may 2008
in May 2008 researchers from
the university of washington in the states
United States have been seeking for ten years
to synthesize a new protein
this protein
she is essential in the fight
against the spread of the AIDS virus
see all their efforts for ten
years be worthless they decide to
associate with departments
computer to create a video game
in this video game called foldit
players must fight the virus
of AIDS by restoring protein
the game of our players the elements
essential to recreate proteins
in 3d and allows them to crush them
in every way with the rules of
molecular chemistry as the only
limits the players work in
teams at the goal to piece together a
structure approaches as close as possible to
the final form of the protein these
models are then presented to
scientists to test them in
lab and see if that fits
really to the sought protein
at its launch sixty thousand
people started to play
regularly at and three weeks
later the players managed to
synthesize the protein so much
sought by scientists
in the space of three weeks the
foldit players have succeeded where the
scientific research had failed
for ten years grabbing is not it
when I heard these stories for the
first time I could not believe it
it’s as if thanks to the internet and the
science development
participatory we could literally
do everything you can even help nasa
to look for extraterrestrial signals
just by sharing a small
part of the computing power of our
remote computers according to the
projects and causes that brings you
you can invest a little bit of
your personal time and you commit
collectively with an action too
simple that a like or that the
participation in a game regardless of the
project the ideas or actions if you
do them together or generated a
positive impact
so next time a friend you
will ask to take a little bit of
time to help him in his little project
matter the action was becoming aware of
the impact it could have
– ch
always fascinated by this time
collective commitment
like for example on gulli since 2014
those hundred and thirty thousand people who have
given more than two million meals
via the World Food Program
just by looking at commercials from
20 seconds
it’s 11 thousand two hundred
hours of engagement just over
five minutes per person
so let’s see all these effervescence
Well, I too wanted to commit myself
and so I made a decision that of
watch at least once a day a
gulli advertising video for
contribute to this effort too
collective
today is a day a little bit
especially for me a little bit
symbolic because I just reached the
100 meals distributed thank you
[Applause]
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