Mia Mottley

Oh, yeah.

It's similar to the Japanese technique.

I'll send you the quotation when we finish here.

And that's exactly the point that you're making, and that the country becomes stronger, the individual becomes stronger.

And what does it really require?

An understanding of...

the circumstances or maybe the practice of the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

But do you think that's become broken because corporations have been outsized power in all of these conversations?

Like if you're a CEO and you're only working towards that quarterly report.

Yeah, and all they're thinking about is I need to make sure that this number in the next three months is bigger than the next number, is bigger than the next number, is bigger than the... And so what that then means is...

You can't think long-term.

You can't think in a beautiful, soft curve.

You can't think in a way that's sustainable, I feel.

Which brings us back to the conversation about narrow casting and echo chambers.

It brings us back to there's some kids in the region that I met recently and their parents said, I make my child grow.

watch something that is an hour long every day because they are so consumed with one minute and two minute that their capacity to sustain attention and to think and to reason is compromised.

Yeah.

I think it's more than that as well.

I always find myself bristling when people say, no one has an attention span.

And I go, that's not true.