Is There a Limitation of What Is Possible?

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Tristan: It's very difficult to catapult ourselves out of the perceived reality that we're in right now into a different reality. We first have to create in our minds before we can create in physicality, he says. Tristan explains how many people are able to achieve their goals by thinking themselves into a better world. He also talks about his own transformation from being 'disgusted' with himself and what it took for him to get there.

[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the battle against global threats like climate change begins in our own heads. She became the United Nations’ top climate official, after she had watched the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit collapse “in blood, in screams, in tears.” In the wake of that debacle, Christiana began performing an act of emotional Aikido on herself, her team, and eventually delegates from 196 nations. She called it “stubborn optimism.” It requires a clear and alluring vision of a future that can supplant the dystopian and discouraging vision of what will happen if the world fails to act. It was stubborn optimism, she says, that convinced those nations to sign the first global climate framework, the Paris Agreement. In this episode, we explore how a similar shift in Silicon Valley’s vision could lead 3 billion people to take action for the planet.