since I was a kid there is some
thing that trots in my head
a little bit like an obsession it’s
try to change the world
I think I never really digested
let me explain that I am part of
what is called the sacrificed generation
you know the generations of the end of
world the one to whom we repeat all the
time you have to do something
you have to do something else
it’s soon the end otherwise the world is going
collapse them around the age of 9 10 years
I was watching a cartoon that
is called minus and cortex
I do not know if you know these
stories of this little mouse this
little mouse every day she
build a Machiavellian plan for
conquer the world and between her and me
I must say that it was pretty fast
love at first sight
because this little mouse she comes
answer the problem of kids and
also because she is very cute in
big if we want to change the world
we can start by trying to
conquer like this after the world
it’s mine I can do that
I necessarily want it better then
I catch some history books and
I am looking for the method and the strategy
of a number of characters who
not bad unraveled level
conquest of the world as Genghis Khan
does he have to Alexander the Great
except that at the time you have to say that I
want to put 40 I’m big enough
lonely but stubborn but it was not
my biggest concern
the real worry is that by looking at
closer we realize that obviously
want to conquer the world and change it
all alone it always ends badly in
general one finishes alone quite often finished
dead most of the time we do not get there
not and then especially in the soundtrack of
my life at that time there was a
kind of frightful false note
imagine for example the burden of
wagner’s walkyries but on a horse to
rocker
and then it’s true that 11 years old a step
side
we see that cortex in
episodes never manages to conquer
the world and it makes sense because
otherwise there would be no episodes
following so the disaster ma
strategy not work I mobilize my
internal staff must be found
absolutely something else and in
thinking well I tell myself why
not try to convince the world to
change himself so
first observation if we want to convince the
whole world it’s billions of
people it is better to be numerous and
a morning like that without warning I
wake up Democrat I get closer to a
political party
and actually I am served I find
lots of people who want to change the
world and who are willing to bring this
say there was always a false
note in the soundtrack and it’s true that
we take a closer look at these people
wanted to change the world but everything
alone
according to their point of view with a vision
very stopped cash that needed
change what to keep
and there too with a side step
we soon realize that wanting
to be the only one in being several basins
turn pretty fast in it does not work
do not worry, I turn the page of
politics and I’m looking for a new
method
I say why not explore the
worm method in the apple
you know the worm method in the
apple that’s trying to do
to be born a change from the inside
when we can not reach advertising
outside to do that there is
different methods possible by
example join the church and become
priest knows more really fashionable and
was not completely my thing or whatever
thing is to try to make
journalism and you will not say it’s not
very far away so go for the
journalism there the soundtrack of my life
she left in free jazz
I find myself first at TF1 then
in magazine the point
then for a number of years
at the figaro then for someone who wants
change the world I’m not hiding
my inner che guevara choked
with his beret
and especially in my life the fake
note in the soundtrack she took the
dimension of a death metal vocalist
in a chorus of mireille mathieu at
after a few years to this diet there
I had my ears are it took
that I rest I had to
take a vacation with a big v of
kind of one where we can put everything back
flat
review his plans because clearly that
did not work and by chance at that
moment there a group of friends that I
barely know at the time tell me come
to rest with us of your year
exhausting we have a great plan we are going
leave in the desert in the north of
Spain in a place where he makes 45
degrees there is no no water road
no electricity
there is nothing to do except the activities
we bring and I do not hide from you that
I said yes right now
all except mireille mathieu and I
frankly well done because it has
changed my life
so first because the desert like
often steve years old environments
it’s in a place we learn
a lot about yourself but mostly because
I met people from people who
like me in a good time are in
life hear also false notes
and even sometimes mireille mathieu en
discussing with these people I learned
that there was even a name for this
feeling of unease that we hear when
he a wrong note in the soundtrack that
is called cognitive dissonance
to make dissonance simple
cognitive
so it’s this discomfort when I tell you
say who appears when for example
one of our shares comes back
contradiction with our beliefs or our
values a very concrete example that
may be some of you
here it’s smoking people who
smoke every day barrel of
packets of cigarettes on which there are
pictures of corpses
we see written seventy substances
carcinogens and yet we go out
cigarette as an example it’s not bad
I repeat more and even more than that
happens to turn that into an instant of
pleasure while it’s a moment of
death is all that dissonance
cognitive
but it’s not the most
rich that I brought back from the desert the
more precious it came to me by
chance a night like that I was
sitting I was watching people to people
danced high all kinds of
people from the little ones of the big ones
hands frozen big and I was hit by
the universal beauty of all these
people
and this beauty was not due to
an exceptional way of dancing
was not a jacket imandt to sion
it was simply due to the fact that these
people were listening the same were
benevolent with themselves they
had nothing to do with the eyes of
others and without warning it took me into
the belly a little bit like
tingling like butterflies
I wanted to go join them I
wanted to go to launch then that can
look banal but for me it was
something really exceptional
because dancing was always something
very difficult thing it was a
existential painting it’s some
thing that I always banned myself
so after a few minutes of
pointless resistance I find myself among
them and I look at my feet and there I have
a shock
my feet are taking steps
aside in real full and listen in the
soundtrack
I hear more false notes then to
reflect on this episode
I started to draw some form of
method
why not take steps aside for
get out of cognitive dissonance
because finally what I did
was nothing exceptional I had
harmonize the movement of my body and
the rhythm of my values
so you’ll tell me it’s nice
this hippies thing but what are we
done with that to change the world
because it’s still the subject
we are interested here well by force of
practice the desert
I brought back a new strategy
which is the one I’m still adopting
today and if to change the world
started by trying to change themselves
yourself
to change yourself something
from simple to everyone’s reach that we can
to do in everyday life
it’s a small step towards the
kindness and empathy to try
to break out of cognitive dissonance the
cognitive dissonance that lives in us
in our dailies who lives the world
that surrounds us
my strategy it is based on this bet that
is that the more you learn to be
benevolent with oneself and the more we have
ability to be with others if
you shake you add to that the
propensity of human beings is
besides a lot of mammals in
general to unlimited you see we
halal primer of a snowball effect
so now when a nice concept
it was missing a tool to be able to carry
the good word
find the right tool it took me a
some time but one day the planets
line up my phone rings and we
announce the birth of a small
Youtube channel
she is already shouting loudly at the first
episode and she needs a concept
she needs ideas she needs
to be fed to live then all of
then my mind is clear and I am
say and if it was an opportunity to try
to implement this strategy
I gather a collective with two
other don quixote against the end of the
world is not to bring bad luck one
decides to call it and everyone
do not care if it does not work
will be able to say yes it was the concept
our proposal was quite simple
will invite our spectators tried to
to change themselves by telling them that
it can change the world
our raw material as I wanted
said she is all found this is the
cognitive dissonance
so I ‘ll rope you to settle the
cognitive dissonance at the level of
world
it is not a step aside that we aim
it is not a hunted but at the end of a
only year of existence we are already advancing
faster than I would have ever imagined
our little chain it brings together
today 320 miles subscribers
episodes have been seen more than 12
millions of times in 22 countries
spread across five continents and
especially my life to me she is
completely transformed I left the
figaro I resumed my quest and especially
I learned to listen to me come
at this beginning of success it began with
step aside and motorized to do
this dance
and do not think we can not
start to change the world with this
kind of things it’s not me who says it
he’s a science teacher
american politicians called eric
at atg inuit and she studied all
major conflicts social conflicts
who crossed the west in the 20th
century
she draws on teaching enough
incredible a statistic that says he
enough of a critical mass of 3.5
hundred of a population to operate a
major change in a society for
change the paradigm
it’s good that we are in Belgium 3.5
percent of the Belgian population
if I’m not mistaken it’s pretty much
by 3 185 thousand people you see that
with 320 miles subscribers it’s not yet
that but we are not very very long
to tell you that we can wait
twenty or thirty years to check if the
prophets of the end of the world we have
lie or else we can decide to
to lie now and now
with a simple thing that we can
do in our daily
it’s a small step towards the
benevolence and empathy because at
only one thing I’m sure of
they may be the prophecies this
that we must not wait to be
happy to do something that is
do something that will make you
happy that’s why I’ll leave
the last word to one of my
favorite philosopher i named gandalf the
Gray the Wizard of the Lord of the Rings
gandalf tells us there is ultimately in
life only one question that deserves
really we look at it
what are we going to do time that we
is allotted
thank you
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