EP #19 Ask Peter Anything Part 1: Our Future in Space, Successful Mindsets, and Exponential Technologies

In this special episode, Peter hosts an Ask Me Anything session with over 100 entrepreneurs, creators, scientists, business owners, and students from all over the world. Peter answers great questions from interplanetary living to Peter’s personal goals for the new year. You will learn about: 02:48 | What Is the problem that Peter wants to solve first? 15:07 | Space travel & interplanetary living. When will it happen? 29:10 | Peter's greatest fear for humanity... 52:07 | What are the technologies that will cure depression? _____________ Resources Levels: Real-time feedback on how diet impacts your health. levels.link/peter Consider a journey to optimize your body with LifeForce. Learn more about Abundance360. Read the Tech Blog. Learn more about Moonshots & Mindsets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:02Speaker 00

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• 0:30Peter Diamandis?

  I want to build this community and empower you through what I've learned and inspire you, right? My massive transformative purpose and what I think is so important for all of us to have is an MTP. My massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future for humanity. And a massive transformative purpose is what you're telling the world. It's like, this is who I am, this is what I'm gonna do, this is the dent I'm gonna make in the universe.

• 1:05Peter Diamandis?

  Hello, Nick. Welcome.

• 1:06Speaker 02

  Hey, Peter.

• 1:07Peter Diamandis?

  Nick's my podcast producer. Yeah.

• 1:10Speaker 02

  Peter is, uh, hey, everybody. If you guys don't know, that's Peter Diamandis. Obviously kidding. Uh, but I hope everybody's doing well. I wanted to start this off by introducing myself. My name is Nick. It's lovely to meet you. Uh, yes, I'm Peter's podcast producer, but uh, around me and to my side and in front of me stands a team that worked incredibly hard to put together a show that felt like we could evangelize Peter's mission, which is to uplift humanity through a podcast. And every single heart and soul on this call, uh, helped us have that podcast ranked top 10 in the US in our first week. So my hat's off to you. Sincerely, thank you all. Uh, your support has meant the world to us and it's confirmed our efforts and it's just continued to help usher this mission forward.

• 1:56Speaker 02

  And put Peter in front of more people, which I think we need in a ever-growing loud world.

• 2:02Peter Diamandis?

  Let me, let me just take a second and, and also throw in my appreciation and thanks, everybody. Thank you for helping me launch this podcast and it is extremely meaningful for me. I think we're living in the most extraordinary time ever. And my job is to counter all the dystopian negative news out there and help entrepreneurs see the potential they have to make the world a better place, to find problems and fix problems, which is why the world has the potential it does. And this podcast, Moon Shots and Mindsets, is all about helping people to inspire them to take their moonshots, to shape their mindsets. And I've said this before, let me just take a second to say it again.

• 2:46Peter Diamandis?

  Your mindset is the most important thing you have. If you think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, then that's the way you're going to see things. If you see the world is filled with opportunities and the ability to solve problems and transform the planet, then that's what you're going to spend your time doing. Your mindset's more important than the technology you have, more important than the capital you have. It's what distinguishes the greatest leaders on the planet. So with that, thank you and excited to have this conversation with you.

• 3:16Speaker 02

  Thanks, Peter. Peter, let's kick it off and let's just get warm here. I know you're in Santa Monica. Why don't you tell everybody how your incredibly typical crazy day was?

• 3:27Speaker 02

  Please enter your questions into the chat and we'll give Donna some time to pick someone.

• 3:31Peter Diamandis?

  You know, the one thing that we all have in common is 24 hours in a day, you know, and 365 days in a year. And that time is, can get filled up very quickly. And my biggest challenge is saying no. So my days typically start way before 6:00 AM and they go till 9:00 PM. And today was no exception. Let's, let's get going with the first question.

• 3:59Speaker 02

  All right, let's do it. Donna, please feel free to find a question in the audience and pull them up.

• 4:05Speaker 03

  First up, we have Adrian Juarez. So Adrian, if you could please unmute yourself, that'd be great.

• 4:10Speaker 04

  Yes. Hi. Hi, Peter. Hi, everyone.

• 4:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, so my question was, out of all the problems that you guys talk in your podcast, which one do you think is the most important one or urgent to solve? That means like the one that will have like the most impact on the most amount of people, or maybe because it's the most neglected problem?

• 4:38Peter Diamandis?

  Again, first of all, thank you for joining. Thank you for the question. And I, I think it is, it's really hard to, to, to point at any single problem. And I think everybody, everybody knows this, all of the problems are interrelated too. If you make, if you focus on education, for example, uplifting humanity, making education available across the globe at the highest level possible, then you get a more educated, educated populace who's able to then turn around and solve problems where they live, right? So all of these things are dominos that tip each other. If you, if you focus on health and you make people healthier around the world, then the, their productivity increases.

• 5:21Peter Diamandis?

  The amount of time that they've been spending not being able to be productive because they're not healthy, you know, gets reduced and therefore they're able to contribute more. If you give access to more energy to people around the world, then they're able to be more productive. So all of these things are interrelated. And it's ultimately about how do you help people spend more time doing things that make the world a better place? And, but you can attack it from many different, many different areas. I think the central point is, is people's belief in themselves to solve problems.

• 6:01Peter Diamandis?

  Uplifting that mindset element is very important and then empowering them to, to do these things. You know, I've personally spent a lot of my time in the health space because I'm excited about it of how do you add, you know, healthy decades to a person's life? I'm also very passionate about education and reinventing the education space. But I don't, I don't think you can point at one particular area and at least. I can't make that argument. People make an argument about carbon and about, you know, the environment. Completely get that. But you could attack that from, again, education, from energy, from health, from multiple different ways. So let me leave it at that,

• 6:46Peter Diamandis?

  that it's a, it's a valid question I struggle with. My job is ultimately to help incentivize entrepreneurs, lots of entrepreneurs, to attack the grand challenge areas. And that's what we do through XPRIZE, that's what we do through this podcast, and hopefully, what everyone here is focusing, like, just take, aim on one of those challenges and, and attack it with all your heart and soul.

• 7:14Peter Diamandis?

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• 7:58Peter Diamandis?

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• 8:39Peter Diamandis?

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• 9:05Speaker 03

  Awesome. Now we have Jeremy.

• 9:07Speaker 05

  Thanks very much, Peter. So my question is probably a little bit more tool specific. I was playing with the GTP three chatbot this morning and I asked it to generate a beat poem about carbon credits. And it did it in about a second.

• 9:20Peter Diamandis?

  Amazing, isn't it? I love it. Blow away.

• 9:23Speaker 05

  It blew me away. I like, I thought you don't get much more random than that.

• 9:27Peter Diamandis?

  You get to read it to us?

• 9:29Speaker 05

  Uh, if you want me to.

• 9:32Peter Diamandis?

  The first couple of lines?

• 9:33Speaker 05

  One of my colleagues.

• 9:34Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, by the way.

• 9:35Speaker 05

  I'll just read. It wrote, it wrote two whole stanzas. I'll just, I don't know if you can see it there.

• 9:39Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, but let's go ahead.

• 9:41Speaker 05

  It said, carbon credits, a way to save the earth, a way to make a difference, a way to give birth to a new way of living, a way to be green, a way to make a change, a way to be seen. So that's the first stanza.

• 9:50Peter Diamandis?

  I love it.

• 9:51Speaker 05

  GTP three with the prompt, uh, write a beat poem about carbon credits. Um, it was a bit of a, it was a bit of a homage to Tim Minchin, if any of you know my, a great comedian. But, um, so it got me thinking about, um, you know, these tools. I mean, obviously Google, Microsoft, Apple, you know, are spending billions on training data sets and releasing these tools. But I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about how people who are starting or, or trying to build exponential organizations and addressing some of the challenges you talked about. How do you see these kinds of tools being deployed to augment our capabilities? And how should we think about using them?

• 10:36Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so. Uh, let me mention first that Saleh Ismail, uh, who is the creator of exponential organizations or Open EXO, he and I are writing a book called, um, it's effectively the exponential organizations playbook on how to create EXOs and that will be coming out.

• 10:57Speaker 05

  I can't wait for it. By the way, I've been following you and Saleh for a few years.

• 11:01Peter Diamandis?

  We're, we're.

• 11:02Speaker 05

  Amazing stuff.

• 11:02Peter Diamandis?

  We're working on it. It's like final edits right now.

• 11:06Speaker 05

  Awesome.

• 11:07Peter Diamandis?

  But so what's, what you pull up, what you speak about is, is really important. It, it turns out, I think that every single profession, no matter what, how you think of yourself, if you're an artist, a writer, a physician, a lawyer, an architect, a designer, every profession is going to have an AI co-pilot. That's a phrase that Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, I was having dinner with him a month ago. And he mentioned that I talked about the idea that it's going to become malpractice to diagnose uh, as a physician without AI in the loop. But the idea of an AI co-pilot, someone or some, a, a technology that is able to support you. Right? So I just saw a, you know, playing with GPT three.

• 11:51Peter Diamandis?

  And if, if folks have not been playing with OpenAI's GPT three, you should. Uh, I saw a designer who said, I'm looking to create a fanciful living room design and so forth, and described the intention, the emotion that they wanted. Can you describe what the design of the living room should be like? And give me three options and GPT three generated three options. And then the, that particular designer put it into, I think it was stable diffusion. And three photorealistic living room designs came up, right? So it's incredibly creative tool in this case for an interior decorator, right? But it can be for a landscape designer. It can be for a fashion designer. It can be for someone who's designing,

• 12:36Peter Diamandis?

  um, uh, you know, workout programs or dietetic programs, whatever the case might be. So I think all of us are going to have these AI co-pilots that are supporting you, doing what you do, uh, faster and better. I opened up by saying all of us have the same 365 days in the year, 24 hours in the day. And it's how you use your time that distinguishes us. So it used to be, you know, 20 years ago. Yeah, thereabouts that if you needed to look up something for writing a book or a story, you'd go to the library and you'd take fifteen, twenty minutes to drive there, walk there, take the bus there. You'd hope they have the book. They didn't have the book, you'd have to go find

• 13:20Peter Diamandis?

  where the book was. Anyway, it would, it would take hours out of your day to get a particular data point. Today, it takes, you know, milliseconds on Google. And so it's, these are thing, the phrase called save time. And one of the things that these exponential technologies do is they create save time. So as a professional, uh, you will have your AI co-pilot provide you save time. So I have this patient with this set of blood level, blood test results and, and symptoms and so forth. Can you please create a differential diagnosis for me on what it may be?

• 14:00Peter Diamandis?

  That is save time so that you can actually deliver much better service in such little time. I think what we're going to start to see is around each profession, a set of AI tools. And it's still early. Um, I mean, OpenAI, uh, uh, DeepMind, uh, stability.ai, uh, uh, scale.ai, all of these are companies that are creating, creating tools. Um, anyway, Jeremy, that's the way I think about it, if that's useful.

• 14:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's awesome, Peter. Thank you. Uh, and yes, the very, if I may, just very quickly, my son, uh, is working for us doing a lot of writing and he's got Asperger's. So sometimes it's a little bit stilted and I've got him using Jarvis and he's just blown away. He says it's, it's improved his writing out of sight and, and he's able to output probably three times as much in the same amount of time. Um, and it's a lot more fun and he's producing great work. So that's, that's just a really simple co-pilot example, um, for somebody with a little bit of a learning difficulty and he's just loving it.

• 15:11Peter Diamandis?

  Perfect. You know, and the challenge I have is my eleven year olds were just doing, you know, homework now. It's like, what's homework going to be like when, you know, it's like, yep, I hear you have to swear you're not going to use GPT three.

• 15:23Speaker 05

  Yeah. Uh, I'm sorry, Miss Jarvis ate my homework.

• 15:28Peter Diamandis?

  Anyway, a pleasure.

• 15:29Speaker 05

  Thanks Peter, I'll let you talk to others, but thanks so much, that was fantastic. Appreciate it.

• 15:33Peter Diamandis?

  My pleasure. Dana, back to you.

• 15:35Speaker 03

  Thanks Jeremy, now we'll have Simone.

• 15:37Speaker 06

  Hi everyone, hi Peter. I would have a question about space, because I'm very interested in space.

• 15:46Peter Diamandis?

  Please.

• 15:47Speaker 06

  So, the question is, when do you think we will be able to travel in the solar system as simply as we do now with airplanes on Earth?

• 15:58Peter Diamandis?

  So, yes.

• 16:00Speaker 06

  And how will be life for humans on other planets? Will we live on a basis undergrounds, underground, or will there be an atmosphere made artificially? So.

• 16:17Peter Diamandis?

  Simone, that's a fun question, thank you for asking it, and you know, I spent the first

• 16:24Peter Diamandis?

  twenty, thirty years of my life passionate about space, right? Star Trek captured my heart and my soul, I'm more of a Trekkie than I am a Star Wars person, just full disclosure here. The, you know, if you look at the early days of aviation, there was barnstorming came first, and this was just around nineteen ten to nineteen twenty-five, thirty. What happened was the people who had an airplane, these aeronauts, as they were called, would fly over a little town, and an airplane flying over town back then was really, you know,

• 17:09Peter Diamandis?

  an unusual sight, and the airplane would go land in a field, and everyone from the town would go to the field to see this airplane and this aeronaut, and the guy, or typically a guy, but could be galas as well, would sell for five dollars for a day's wager to take you up in a barnstorming, and they would go up and fly around and come back down and land, and typically it was safe. That's the era we're in today, it's barnstorming. So, when someone goes up on a Virgin Galactic flight, or a Blue Origin flight, or even a SpaceX flight to orbit, you're going up. You're paying a large amount of money, you're having this incredible experience and then you land and back where you took off.

• 17:52Peter Diamandis?

  And that's the era we're in. And then what occurred next was we went from barnstorming to travel. First with airmail and then with point-to-point travel, right? Lindbergh in 1927 flies from New York to Paris and opens up the aviation industry. And I think the idea of interplanetary travel, we need the vehicles. There's no question that Starship is the first of those vehicles. Elon's got Starship under development today. And I think we'll see Starship hopefully flying in the next two, three months to orbit. And that vehicle- The big rocket.

• 18:37Peter Diamandis?

  The big rocket, yes. Yes, I have, I have Starship right back there in silver. I have Saturn V, Falcon Heavy and Starship models behind me here. Anyway, the, the point is that vehicle is designed specifically to be able to go and land on the moon and then be able to go and land on Mars. None of the vehicles we have built to date have been designed for that capability. And so it really takes someone with the incredible engineering intelligence and prowess that Elon has and the wealth to be able to, to pull that off.

• 19:18Peter Diamandis?

  Now, as to where we're going to live on the moon, I think we're going to be living under the ground in what are called lava tubes. There are these large, from the early formation of the moon, when it was molten to some degree, these large caves, if you would, that are sealed. Imagine being able to fill the lava tube with an atmosphere and you weigh one-sixth of your weight, right? If you normally weigh 120 pounds, you weigh 20 pounds on the moon and weighing that light with a pair of wings strapped to your arms, you can fly, which would be like, for me, that's what I'm looking forward to. On Mars, I think on Mars, where you weigh one-third of your weight, it'll be more difficult, but we'll have probably domed cities. And, you know, the science fiction has done an incredible job.

• 20:04Peter Diamandis?

  It's the world that changes very rapidly. Once we're also able to have AI and robotics in space where we can send humanoid robots to the asteroids, to the Martian surface, to the moon, and have it prepare that situation for us. So when we land there, there's a habitat ready, the food is ready, the energy systems are ready versus having to go and create ourselves. Anyway, Simone, thank you so much for your question.

• 20:34Speaker 06

  Thank you. Thank you very much.

• 20:36Peter Diamandis?

  Thank you.

• 20:36Speaker 03

  Thanks, Simone. Up next, we have, my apologies if I'm butchering your name, but Bo, I think is your name?

• 20:43Speaker 07

  Yes, thank you. Peter, massive fan. I was recently introduced. I wish I was introduced to you earlier, but I'm just, I feel like I'm catching up in the middle of Life Force. I'm in the middle of reading Life Force right now, and I'm curious, it might be a bit of a spoiler, but I'm curious what most excited you in 2020? And then a follow-up question to that, what are you most eagerly anticipating about 2023?

• 21:12Peter Diamandis?

  Wow. So I wrote and published The Future is Faster Than You Think in 2020, and then Life Force came out at the beginning of this year. And I think it's fascinating because every year I'm blown away by the incredible progress that we're making. You know, one of the things I do, Bo, every year at my Abundance 360 Summit, is I look back 100 years. And so in 2022, I look back to 1922. In 2020, I look back to 1920. And I look

• 21:56Peter Diamandis?

  at, I ask the question, like, what's, what were the breakthroughs back 100 years ago? And you should do this as an experiment for yourself. When you look back 100 years ago, and you search far and wide for the breakthroughs, it's like... There weren't any. It was pretty slow, right? So I remember last year when I did that in nineteen twenty-one, it was like Vegemite was invented, you know? It was like the water ski was like boards and clotheslines were invented. I mean, it was that kind of stuff. And you realize it's like the speed was so like molasses and today it's incredibly fast.

• 22:36Peter Diamandis?

  So, you know, for two thousand and twenty-three, I'm excited about a few different things. It really comes down to AI and biotech are the two areas that are moving so incredibly fast. We just heard today about an announcement coming out tomorrow around fusion. That we've finally been able to demonstrate sustained positive

• 23:01Peter Diamandis?

  production of energy in a fusion reaction, which is a big deal, right? If we look globally, a country's GDP, a country's prosperity has been a function of its access to energy. And we're gonna, you know, fusion energy has always been fifty years away. Well, there are thirty-seven privately funded fusion companies today and they're making breakthroughs. And tomorrow it's gonna be a big announcement. So I'm excited about that. So just what's going on in health, in reinventing education, another. So at A three six this year, I've got some of the top AI experts coming to speak. And also SolCon coming to speak about education. So it's about the convergence.

• 23:42Peter Diamandis?

  So super excited about where AI and education is gonna go. And where AI and health is gonna go. Both of those fields are gonna transform, you know, just shockingly fast. And those are two giant industries that in my estimation are ripe for disruption. So tracking those and, yeah, I mean, I'm excited about it all frankly. But those are the areas in particular, Beau. Thank you.

• 24:14Speaker 03

  Now, next we have Marianne, Peter.

• 24:16Speaker 08

  Hi, Peter. So thank you for being here. I'm a fan as well. I work as a coach at the Flow Research Collective with Stephen.

• 24:22Peter Diamandis?

  Oh, fantastic. Stephen Kotler is my co-author on my last, my first three books, Abundance Bold and Futures Faster.

• 24:31Speaker 08

  Yeah, I wanted to ask you about metaverse or virtual reality like. I would like to know your opinion on if this is for you like if it will be like a disrupted technology and if yes, like why and which timeframes do you believe it's going to be? And if not, like what could be blocking from that happening?

• 24:53Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, great, great question, Ryan. So let me tell you about how I think about the metaverse. What do I think it is and why do I think it's going to be transformative? So when I look at these areas, it's basically the convergence of multiple technologies coming in. So the headset technology, right, the VR technology, the AR technology, or they're sometimes called XR in combination, is doing reasonably well. And I'm excited to see what Apple's headsets are going to be and what Meta's headsets are going to be like in their next generation. So the headsets are getting better, but there's a lot more to come. But

• 25:36Peter Diamandis?

  once we have achieved sort of headsets that have sufficiently high resolution and are comfortable and are able to actually see your facial features and be able to represent how you look in the metaverse, that's the first part. The second part is going to be AI. So I was just with a guy named Ahmad Mustak, and we have recorded a podcast with Ahmad. He's the CEO of Stability.ai. They generate, they have a product called Stable Diffusion that has been breaking the internet. It's like ChatGPT. Stable Diffusion has been

• 26:18Peter Diamandis?

  incredible. And what Stable Diffusion like DALL-E does is able to go from a written prompt describing something to a visual image, high-resolution visual image. And they have gone, the first time they did it, it would take like 30 seconds to generate, then they got it down to real time to generate in a second. And now they've gotten it down to a 30th of a second. What does that mean? It means that products like Stable Diffusion will be able to generate live video.

• 26:53Peter Diamandis?

  Uh, so imagine being able to be in a metaverse and have an AI creating that metaverse for you on the fly in photorealism. And so I think we're going to move a lot of education there, a lot of interactive, like, you know, what we're doing right now is amazing two years ago. Now we've gotten used to it, all right? We've gotten used to this idea of free, live, you know, two dimensional conversations.

• 27:27Peter Diamandis?

  What will occur next is we're going to be all together in a virtual room, sitting together, having conversations, walking around and seeing stuff. And then that will become sort of the normal way. So I think about creating much more engaged communities, much more engaged educational experience and experiences in every part of our life. I think metaverse is going to, the other, the third part about metaverse, besides the, the headsets and AI, is going to be blockchain and cryptocurrencies and the ability to exchange value rapidly inside that. And then being able to like, if you're in a metaverse and you see a can of Coca-Cola,

• 28:13Peter Diamandis?

  that a digital can of Coke, being able to pick it up and then put it in your wallet. And when you're in the real world, you have a basically something that you can exchange for a real Coca-Cola and you can move between the real world and the virtual world. And there's going to be this blurring of, of the, of the lines. So I think we're going to build new communities in the metaverse, new forms of government. I think that you will, you know, I'm, how do I describe myself? I'm, I live in Santa Monica, I'm a Californian, I'm a US citizen. But I may, in the future, actually feel much more connected to being a citizen in a metaverse,

• 28:56Peter Diamandis?

  where I do my education, I actually earn my income, and there's a whole different set of governance rules. And I'm voting in that metaverse, and I'm transacting in that metaverse. And, you know, my 11-year-olds right now, they live in the Roblox metaverse. That's how they, how they think about it. And the most valuable thing for them isn't dollars, it's Robux. It's the cryptocurrency there. As soon as they get any money, they're, they translate it to Robux immediately. Uh, so it's, it's coming fast. Um, yeah, anyway, hope that helps, Marion. Pleasure. Thank you.

• 29:38Speaker 03

  Hello, thank you. Now we'll have Maggie.

• 29:42Peter Diamandis?

  Hi Maggie.

• 29:43Speaker 09

  Hi, greetings from Greece, first of all, hi.

• 29:46Peter Diamandis?

  Galispetas.

• 29:47Speaker 09

  Galispetas, Galispetas, nas karla, ine porli, I'm sorry about the Greek for a second. Ine porli oreo, eh, toti, enas antropos, eh, pumilaiti, lo shamas, eh, briskete, kipu briskete. And I'm gonna take it in a second, in, in English as well. I just paid my respects because, you know, it's all about origins. And even though we do not speak about origins as much as we do, uh, it is very moving, especially for a small country as ours is, to be seeing people like you being such an inspiration. So my question is, um, pretty much, um, very small, but also very big.

• 30:29Speaker 09

  Um, I want to know, um, what you believe the greatest, like what your greatest fear for humanity is. Yeah.

• 30:40Peter Diamandis?

  So that's a fascinating question, right? And, and it's a fair question to ask. There are two different sides of the equation here. What do I think is the greatest threat not being addressed is one side of the equation? I'll answer that, that's easier for me. And, and that is, you know, uh, I think the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 31:04Peter Diamandis?

  Was, I don't call it a practice pandemic. My heart goes out to those who were injured by it. But I think there could be much worse pandemics and hopefully we've learned some lessons and hopefully we've put some systems in place, be able to provide early warning and be able to protect ourselves. I'm concerned about asteroid impacts. We are in a solar system filled with rocks that are flying around. And every hundred years ago, there's a major asteroid impact, you know. Luckily, a lot of them have been in the tundra of actually the old Soviet Union, which was a large amount of real estate or in the poles.

• 31:45Peter Diamandis?

  But a rather small rock landing in the wrong place, like over a metropolitan region, can cause huge economic and life damage. So the reason I'm concerned about it is it's an existential threat and it's got such a huge impact. And we're not really doing sufficient work to be able to provide an early warning system. So I think about that. That's one of the existential threats that I'm concerned about. The other side is still is extremism in the world.

• 32:23Peter Diamandis?

  And, you know, the question becomes, how do we prevent people from being in echo chambers and being in extremist situation and being violent? Obviously, the technologies we're creating are massively empowering to entrepreneurs, such as most of you here, to do, make the world a better place, to uplift humanity. But they can also be used for negative purposes. And so...

• 32:56Peter Diamandis?

  Helping, helping people relate to each other is one of the most important objectives. You know, the analogy I use is each of us is not a single life form. Each of us is actually a collection of thirty or forty trillion cells working together. Right? That's what makes up your body. Every cell is alive, every cell is an individual. And we work together as, as, you know, as Maggie, as Peter, whoever it might be. And I don't take a knife and stab my arm because it's me. And so one of the questions is, how do we become more interdependent? How do we become more connected?

• 33:37Peter Diamandis?

  How do I create a level of empathy with, with you and everybody? And that level of connection leads us to a point where the better you do, the better it is for me. Right? That's the world I think we need to be heading towards. By the way, that's one of the places that the potential for the ultimate level of brain-computer interface where I'm connected and you're connected. And I understand your feelings and thoughts. And, you know, again, it's how do we uplift humanity all at once? So it's isolationism and extremism that is sort of the, the challenge for me to, to think about.

• 34:20Peter Diamandis?

  And part of that comes as well from the dystopian news media cycles where, you know, we're constantly bombarded by negative news and disinformation. I'm not saying what, what the crisis news network CNN, as I call it, or I don't have a good name for Fox. I'm not saying that what they're saying isn't true. What I'm saying is it's all negative all the time. And that's not a balanced view of what's going on in the world. There are so many amazing things going on that we just, they don't penetrate our psyche because we're bombarded by every. Murder every crooked politician all the time and that's shaping the way we think. Right? Our brains are neural nets. And we train neural nets by showing them example after example after example.

• 35:05Peter Diamandis?

  And so if you're watching the negative dystopian news, you're training your brain towards fear and scarcity. And so I protect what I see, what I hear, what I read, who I hang out with very carefully. Because I want to train it in the in the right, right way. Anyway, I hope that that helps. Hadika?

• 35:27Speaker 09

  It did. Que go. I wanted to take it a little further to the mindset, honestly, and how we would be able to like seriously collectively, you know, see how a shift in mindset could be possible, but it was an exceptional answer on the existential and the other threat. So, thank you.

• 35:48Peter Diamandis?

  It was, yeah.

• 35:50Speaker 03

  Thanks, Maggie. Now we have Michelle.

• 35:52Speaker 10

  Hi, Peter. How are you?

• 35:54Peter Diamandis?

  Hi, Michelle.

• 35:55Speaker 10

  Thank you so much for hosting. This is wonderful.

• 35:58Peter Diamandis?

  Of course.

• 35:58Speaker 10

  So my question for you comes from Life Force a little bit. It says there that the length of medical knowledge now is about seventy three days. So I want to ask you about your thoughts on the future of education and it's kind of a three fold question. Future of education as it relates to decentralized education, blockchain and the future of workforce. The kids are coming out of college now in terms of remote work. Companies have the ability now to hire remote work so inexpensively. So how do you see the competition with the kids that are coming out of college in the US now? Without much experience with those kids abroad?

• 36:40Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, no. That's a, that's a great question. So first of all.

• 36:47Peter Diamandis?

  The, the speed of change is accelerating is and, and without question and the, the question is, what are we learning? And I don't think schools are teaching kids um correctly anymore. It used to be that you would go and learn a skill or learn a body of knowledge that you would then deploy for the rest of your life. And it used to be that life was actually relatively short. So a hundred years ago, you would go to school till you were twenty-ish and you would take what you learned and used it for twenty years and then you were dead at forty or fifty years old. Now, um, we're in school and we're living a hundred years

• 37:31Peter Diamandis?

  uh on top of that and uh what you learned in school is basically vaporized in terms of uh its utility. And so what we need to be looking at instead is teaching people how to learn um and how to acquire new skills and how to partner with technology. You know, it's, I say, there's a tsunami of change coming. And your goal is to surf on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it. And if you have a fixed mindset and you've learned what you learned and you're going to use it until you can't, that's just, that's just wrong. So how do we teach our kids?

• 38:12Peter Diamandis?

  Um, in, you know, how to learn on a continuous basis? And um, one of the things that you can either become an expert in the problem and then use new technologies as they become available to solve the problem, or you can become an expert in the technology, which, once it's been uh overcome by new technology is no longer valid. So I tell people, listen, find something you are massively passionate about, something you would die for and then live for it, right? How do you, and so one of the things I hope for my kids, Um, is number or three things. Number one, I want them to find their passion.

• 38:55Peter Diamandis?

  What are they obsessed about? Right now it's video games. Okay, got it. Great. They're gonna live their world and their life in the metaverse. And so I can't deny them that. But what do you, what are you absolutely obsessed about? What, what is your, your purpose and passion in life? Can you, can you find that? More than anything else, because my passion and purpose for space drove me to learn everything I would learn over the next thirty years, way outside of school. I didn't, I didn't use anything that I learned in school later on. I learned everything because of my passion and having to discover it along the way. The second thing I want them to learn is how to ask great questions.

• 39:32Speaker 10

  Mm hmm.

• 39:32Peter Diamandis?

  Um, I think one of the most, we're living into a world where you can know anything. And, you know, chat GPT, Google, all of these things are gonna make it more and more accessible. We're all gonna have some version of Jarvis from Iron Man where you can ask a question and so forth. So if, if it's true that what's more important is the quality of the questions you ask, how do we create better question askers? Um, and that's true for kids as well as for CEOs and entrepreneurs. Uh, and the third thing is grit, is not giving up.

• 40:05Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 40:06Peter Diamandis?

  And so for me, it has nothing to do with technology, but it's those, those things that are gonna allow you to surf on top of the tsunami of change. Instead of be crushed by it. And yeah, um, we're, you know, we're post COVID. We're doing two things. We're onshoring manufacturing, we're onshoring the supply chain because we want it accessible. Right there, we can use 3D printers and new technology and all of that. Amazing. And we're offshoring cognitive capacity, right? So I have members of my team that are uh, around the world and they're on Slack and on Zoom and on email and on Google Docs and

• 40:47Peter Diamandis?

  I don't know where they are anyway, anytime, and nor do I care if they are doing a great job. It's a complete six Ds, right? Digitized, dematerialized, demonetized, democratized, uh, workforce.

• 41:01Peter Diamandis?

  And it's the new world of work that people are going to be competing in, for sure. Anyway, I hope that helps. That's the way I think about it. Absolutely. Thank you so much. My pleasure.

• 41:12Speaker 03

  Awesome. Thanks, Michelle. Now we have Cici Wang.

• 41:15Speaker 11

  Yeah, hello, Peter. It's such a pleasure that I can ask you the question in person. I'm actually a huge fan. I have read your books and it definitely brought light into my life, looking at the positive impact that, you know, human and society have created in the past 100 years. I think where I'm curious is, when we're building exponential organization, looking at this hockey stick growth curve, that we know exponential technology going to lead exponential change. And when I'm looking at organization in the same lens, and they don't necessarily configured and to unleash human potential to enable exponential growth. So currently, right, look at our society

• 41:59Speaker 11

  organization setup in this hierarchy is from a second industry revolution is through in this traditional model. So I think in my mind is my mission statement is how can we build a conscious exponential organization, go both ways. One way is looking at facilitate exponential change through technology, and otherwise facilitate a condition to unleash human potential. How would that merge together? What would be your advice in that?

• 42:29Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, listen, today, you're right, Cici. Today's organizations are not nimble. They are top-down structure and they don't enable sort of the speed. And and there is a new kind of organization, right? And this is this idea of an exponential organization and the the book that Salim and I are writing is all about about this. And an exponential organization is a much flatter organization. It's driven by

• 43:00Peter Diamandis?

  A massive transformative purpose. That is the guiding principle and mindset that everybody's aiming towards. It's a culture that is data-driven, not opinion-driven. You know, it used to be that the expert, you know, was the, you know, the, the person whose opinion you listen to and, you know, I define an expert as someone who tells you exactly how can't, something cannot be achieved, right? How it can't be done. And we go away from expertise and we go to experimentation and data-driven decision-making. So I think the analogy I use is the asteroid impact from sixty-five million years ago.

• 43:45Peter Diamandis?

  So when the asteroid hit the earth back sixty-five million years ago, it changed the environment so dramatically, so rapidly, that organisms that could not rapidly adapt to the new environment went extinct. And that was the slow and lumbering dinosaurs. But the furry mammals that were rapidly able to adapt came out to dominate on the planet. And the asteroid hitting the planet today is this exponential change. It is AI, it is biotech, it is all the exponentials, quantum computing, which we haven't talked about, which is coming, which is going to make AI look like it's standing still.

• 44:30Peter Diamandis?

  Anyway, so there's a lot of change coming. So it's how do you create agility? How do you create a nimbleness? And, and a lot of the old-style companies are not going to be able to adapt and they will go away. And there'll be new business models, right? Very famously, about three years ago, when Jeff Bezos was still CEO of Amazon, at a shareholder meeting, he made a statement that said, I don't know that Amazon's going to exist in thirty years. I don't know if you remember that, but it was like, huh, good on him to say that. Because the average life of large-scale companies is, is falling rapidly.

• 45:13Peter Diamandis?

  And Amazon's one of the most innovative companies. And even so, there are going to be new strategies, new approaches that come along out of the blue that reinvent whatever business Amazon's in.

• 45:28Peter Diamandis?

  So, um, yeah, it, it's, I'm watching all the time to see. So we're going to see companies that are going to be built on top of AIs, right? Where, you know, every employee's got an AI co-pilot of some type. Where, um, where AIs are driving a lot more than the humans are. I don't know, maybe, um, I don't have an answer. You know, it's so funny because, uh, when I was talking to, uh, um, uh, Imad Mustak, the CEO of, uh, of Stability.ai. I, I said, how far out can you look?

• 46:11Peter Diamandis?

  Meaning, how far out can you predict what's coming? Uh, because people ask me, you know, I go to Dubai to give a keynote and they say, Peter, can you talk about the world 50 years from now? My answer is no, I can't. I can barely talk about the world 10 years from now. 50 years is, is impossible. And so Imad said, you know, um, I can barely see two years from now. And I think that's what's interesting. We all have to be continuous learners, right? So in the chat, I saw someone saying how, Peter, how can, um, how can you mentor me and so forth? So that's what this podcast is about. It's about, uh, mentorship.

• 46:56Peter Diamandis?

  It's about, uh, bringing the smartest people on the planet and talking about what are their moonshots? And how do they see them coming? And then how, what are their mindsets, right? And then, um, and then the other, you know, the books I've written. By the way, for if you're an entrepreneur starting out, Bold is a really great how-to book for entrepreneurs. Um, The Future is Faster Than You Think is a, is a, is a great book that Steve and I wrote, sort of looking at the next decade ahead. And then, you know, Abundance 360 is where I sort of mentor in, in group around 400 entrepreneurs and CEOs.

• 47:33Peter Diamandis?

  Anyway, uh, Sissy, uh, I don't think I gave you a straight answer. I walked around it, but I hope you'll, uh, I hope you're okay with that.

• 47:41Speaker 11

  No, this is great. I thank you so much. I, I just want to acknowledge with your as inspiration and having me connect to my purpose is building conscious exponential organization that unleash human potential in a world of abundance that is love and peace and happiness. So

• 47:59Peter Diamandis?

  I love that.

• 48:00Speaker 11

  I can't wait to be part of the movement because that gets me up every day, getting lit up. So thank you so much.

• 48:05Peter Diamandis?

  And, and thank you for saying that. That's exactly why, uh, you know, I, I'm, I and my team are doing what we do.

• 48:12Speaker 11

  Yeah.

• 48:12Peter Diamandis?

  Thank you so much.

• 48:13Speaker 11

  Yeah, thank you.

• 48:13Peter Diamandis?

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• 49:40Peter Diamandis?

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• 49:51Speaker 02

  All right, Peter, I'm going to take over. Why don't I bring one more person up to state?

• 49:55Peter Diamandis?

  Let's do that.

• 49:56Speaker 02

  An awesome question according to Donna. Donna, I think it was Max.

• 50:00Speaker 12

  Yeah, Max. So I'm passionate about climate change. I'll have a master's in data science this coming May. Um, I wanted to get the bank for my book. Should I work in EVs, carbon capture, fusion, energy, development banks? What should I do?

• 50:15Peter Diamandis?

  So Max, uh, it's whatever you're most passionate about. It's, um,

• 50:21Speaker 12

  Okay.

• 50:21Peter Diamandis?

  There's no right answer. They're all going to be critically important. You're going to do your best work when you wake up obsessed by the field, right? Um, and they're all connected and they're all moving extraordinarily fast. You know, people say, what should I do? It's like, listen, um, go and do a dive into all of those. Who are your heroes in those fields? Who do you see yourself as? What is it that you want to do that wakes you up in the morning? Um, you can make a job out of anything, but there's only a few things that are going to light you up. And, you know, so you may or may not be successful. I may or may not be successful what I'm

• 51:03Peter Diamandis?

  doing, but if I'm doing what I love, then every day is an amazing journey. Every day is a learning opportunity. Even if you don't get to the end, um, you have, uh, you've, you've learned, you've shared, you've brightened up, you've contributed, and that's all we can ask. So anyway, Max, thank you.

• 51:22Speaker 12

  Peter, thanks for the extra five minutes. I appreciate it.

• 51:25Peter Diamandis?

  You're welcome, my friend.

• 51:26Speaker 02

  Thanks, Max. Okay, Peter, I'm going to read a few from, from the type form. Uh, one person asked, Satish Kumar Singh asked, which is the biggest change you foresee in how we, and they quoted eat in the next three to five years?

• 51:38Peter Diamandis?

  The biggest change I see how we eat is we're going to be measuring what's going on in our bodies a lot closer. And you'll have an AI co-pilot that is your food meister, if you would, saying, my recommend, you know, you set your goals. I want more energy. I want to lose weight. I want more muscle. I want whatever your goals are. And then based upon your objectives, maybe based upon your genetics, but definitely based upon your blood chemistry, uh, your AI is going to recommend what you eat. And so it's going to close the loop, right? Because right now it's open loop. You think you should roughly be doing more plant-based food or keto or whatever, but you don't actually know what's going on inside your blood chemistry. You don't actually

• 52:22Peter Diamandis?

  know what's going to get you to your end goal. So it's closing the loop between sensors and AI. That's going to change the way we eat.

• 52:30Speaker 02

  Cool. Next question. I love that, by the way. Always a, always a great use case for AI. What technologies, I want to read the person's name out. Camilio Repetto asked, what technologies are directed towards eradicating clinical depression?

• 52:47Peter Diamandis?

  Wow. So, super important. And the, the challenge has been, to date, it's only been pharmaceuticals. Now, for the right situation, the right person, antidepressants can work wonders. I had a friend of mine who was mildly depressed. I just was meeting with her recently, and she was on an antidepressant for three months, and she said it was miraculous for her, and she wished she had known, she's off it now, wished she had known, and she would have gone in much sooner, right? She was a cancer survivor, and so, make amazing help for her. But what else is coming down, down the pike?

• 53:27Peter Diamandis?

  Because we're always, everyone should be concerned about overmedicating. There are strategies in the virtual world, being able to be in VR therapy, and put yourself in different circumstances that visually and auditorily take you on a journey in a place that is happier, brighter, and can, can help you. It's sort of like technologically augmented meditation. The other thing that's coming down the pike, that's a big deal, is the whole world of brain-computer interface. Our brain, you know, the two-kilogram chunk of neurons, 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion synaptic connections,

• 54:11Peter Diamandis?

  is a neurochemical soup. And, and depression to a large degree is due to an imbalance in that neurochemical soup. So the question is, if you have the right sensors and effectuators, electrodes in your brain, can you? Turn the dial. Can you turn the dial to be five or 10% happier? And do it in a way that is really rebalancing your neurochemistry as to what it should be. There are some people who have set points that are naturally optimistic, naturally sort of brighter and those that are unfortunately naturally more depressed. And can we use BCI to to transform that?

• 54:56Peter Diamandis?

  Not in an addictive fashion, but in a rebalancing fashion. So for me, those are the two areas. You know, I'll mention that we're also going to have a brand new generation of meds coming that are going to come from AI discovery and quantum compute, quantum chemistry. That might be made specifically for you, but that's a little bit further out.

• 55:20Speaker 02

  Fantastic answer. And this next one, it's I'm going to put a spin on it so everybody can walk away with some 2023 value here. What is on your mind? And what are your goals going into 2023? How do you set goals? How do you think about the new year, et cetera?

• 55:38Peter Diamandis?

  My goals for 2023, it's really to build this community. I want to build this community and empower you through what I've learned and inspire you, right? I my massive transformative purpose and what I think is so important for all of us to have is an MTP. My massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity. So how do I inspire you? How do I guide you? And and the inspiration and the guidance is through the things that we're doing here. And ultimately, it's giving you the the tools, right?

• 56:21Peter Diamandis?

  So there's a question that just popped up. Who should we have as a podcast guest? Please, I look forward to people's input on that. My other goals for 2023 are around launching a X Prize around extending the healthy lifespan of humans. I'm super passionate about that. It's it's doing more to support entrepreneurs at scale. And, you know, I think we're living in a day and an age where we can dream bigger than ever before.

• 56:59Peter Diamandis?

  And I hope that all of you do. I hope that you up your game, that you focus on the world's biggest challenges because they deserve your attention and you deserve to be making a dent in the universe. Nick and Dana, thank you. Thank you, everybody who joined in. Grateful and thank you for helping us take this podcast to one of the top 10 and tell your friends and see you guys all soon. Everyone, this is Peter again. Before you take off, I want to take a moment to just invite you to subscribe to my weekly tech blog. Today, over 200,000 people receive this email twice per week. In the tech blog, I share with you my insights on converging

• 57:42Peter Diamandis?

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