It's October. Welcome to the teens cornerstone connection lesson this month. We begin a new quarter with the theme reality Bible we have our We have Shawnee on the mission story Amy and said on violin and piano Joyce Appealing to the deaf community. We have Seth Misati and Silas with our wonderful teen teachers as our panelists enjoy Hi, my name is Shawnee and I'm gonna be reading the mission story today. So the mission story comes from Cameroon and it's about a young boy named David and The title of our story is breaking bread By 6 o'clock in the morning little David was dressed and ready to leave home for kindergarten Mother handed over his backpack stuffed with textbooks paper pencils and most importantly Breakfast breakfast was a delicious chewy chunk of bread Kindergarten started at 7 o'clock after a few sessions It was time for breakfast David eagerly pulled out the bread from his backpack Was hungry as he prepared to eat a little boy sitting beside him spoke up. Did you share with me? He asked David saw the boy didn't have any bread.  Here you are. He said as the boy accepted the bread another boy came over Could you share with me? He asked David saw that this boy also didn't have bread.  Here you are. He said Then a third boy came over David already guessed why he wanted what he wanted. He saw that the boy didn't have any breakfast and must be hungry Sure enough the boy had the question He shared with me he asked David didn't have much bread left.  He asked the mother. Could you share with me? However, there was a famine in the land and the mother only had enough flour and oil to bake one last loaf of bread She had planned to eat the bread with her son, but she shared it with Elijah God rewarded her with a miracle Provided her an unending supply of flour and oil and the mother was able to bake bread until the famine ended She and her son never went hungry David had had the bible story in Sabbath school Sabbath school teacher had told the children you need to share with those who are hungry David broke the last piece of bread in half The three boys nibbled on the delicious chewy bread. It was a good breakfast David felt good that he had been able to help the other boys His own breakfast wasn't big, but he didn't get hungry before kindergarten ended and went home for lunch The next day the same thing happened again when David pulled out his bread for breakfast. The other boys asked him to share David shared again, and he felt good after that children asked David to share his breakfast every day Many things changed when David finished kindergarten and started First grade school started at 11 o'clock. So he ate breakfast at home But now he ate lunch at school. Mother had no longer parked bread for him Instead she gave him lunch money to buy bread to eat But one thing didn't change. Children kept asking David to share his food and he kept sharing Today David is 13 years old and he shared his food for eight years His kindness was surprised by some classmates and they asked Why are you sharing? David likes to tell them the story of how Jesus shared food with a crowd of 5 000 Or how Jesus shared everything with his disciples I want to share like Jesus David says So David's generosity had a good influence on his classmates when they saw him share food They also started sharing their food with those who had none David said he's happy that he can share Sometimes I feel hungry because I give away so much food he says But I'm happy because I can follow Jesus's example Of sharing. I believe that I'm sharing the light of Jesus with my friends Part of this quarter 13th Sabbath offering will help open a seventh day Adventist school in David's home country of Cameroon Where children will be able to learn about the joy of sharing God's blessings with others Thank you for a generous offering Hello everybody. Welcome Karibu Sana to our cornerstone lesson this week We have a wonderful lesson for you But before we start I'd just like my fellow panelists to introduce themselves starting from my extreme right Hello and hope Sabbath years My name is Seth Ruben Mokara and Honoured to be here It's so good morning afternoon evening to our viewers My name is miss Sati Nyambane Love for us to jump into this interesting lesson Fantastic. Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon I'm Silas and I'm happy to be here Wonderful and I'm happy to be here too Our lesson this week is entitled prayer power, but before we start let's say a prayer Dear father in heaven, oh lord god, we come before you father this time We'd like to thank you so much for another opportunity father together together To learn from your feet now father as we begin I ask that you may be with us keep us and help us to understand that that we learn in just in my pray amen amen Ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful lesson for you today Entitled prayer power prayer power and it's all about why we should pray how we should pray and Should we pray in order for us to get results, right? And we'll be diving into that Straight away And I just wanted to introduce Silas over here with the what do you think section now just before we go into the story just to Give us some prelude On on what we are going to discuss Silas okay, so I'll ask you one question before we go into the story and This is a question to everyone who is here Mm-hmm. Have you ever been mocked for not having a certain thing and Will start with me sir Yeah, so personally like let's see what what mockery okay the mockery I've faced in my life was like in high school I was being mocked. I was listening. I was oh You have a girlfriend. I was like no, I've never had a girlfriend. They're like, bro.   No, I was like, no, I'm straight man. No, don't you have a girlfriend? I'm saying it's choice. You know, there's no pressure This life no pressure No, that's that's true. Uh, this life no pressure Silas okay, so the second question is God answers your prayers every single time Although sometimes not in the way you expected. Do you think this is true? Okay, so for me, I think God knows what we need. God knows what you want And he knows what is best for us. So whenever We ask for something he answers in the right way Maybe it's not what we really want but That is what we are meant to have Yeah So let's get into the story and the story is about Hanna and This man from Ramathim, he had two wives one was called Hanna and the other was called Penina So one of them had no children and the other had Children so because of this Penina used to mock Hanna every day because she didn't have children and Penina did so that is one thing she had and Hanna didn't have so that's what she always used used to mock her with And in this story we see that Hanna decided to go to the temple and pray and ask God to Give her a child and she prayed Every single day and one day Early the priest of the temple while was in the temple he asked her Are you Are you drunk? What's the problem with you and he had not Known her story, but From how she was praying and seeking God honestly He thought she was drunk, but she was actually not drunk, but she was praying and asking God to grant her petition Yeah Yeah, thank you Silas I think there you've just taken us through very well through the story and also through the what do you think section? And here it's painting of the picture of her of a heartbroken woman really who You know has been mocked You know she said that perhaps in the story if you read it a little bit more It says that you know she had the love of her husband But then there was one thing that she didn't have and that was a child You know and at the result, you know her core wife Mocked her every single day without without relenting Right and this made her life a misery.  Just look at her, you know and Uh, I just know so that's where we are in the story and I just wanted to invite Seth with the key text after that prayer. What happens after that prayer? What happens? Okay, so Our key text comes from the book of Second Samuel chopped first. Oh, it's a first Samuel chapter One was 20 and it says and someone spoke unto all The house of israel saying If you if ye do return unto the lord with all your heart And I think you're reading. I think that's second Samuel Yeah, first first Samuel chapter one verse 20 verse 20 verse 20 Let me jump in because I find that this verse is Particularly fascinating to me. So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel saying Because I asked the lord for him Indeed, so you can see that after all that prayer, you know at the end of at the end of that prayer Well, Ellie is watching her. He says go on your prayers been answered, you know, and we can see now the results Just after that prayer, you know, he says that in the course of time god came through God came through right? Yeah Which is miraculous. I don't know, you know, just by praying and and Hannah certainly recognizes it You see even by the name that she gives him as you rightly put it He said because I asked the lord for him and god came through and he was able to have A child right But now we want to look at some of the most salient points particularly Looking at at what the spirit of prophecy says And I just like to invite misati here to read the the flashlight as we as we go back to to to um Set there later on with the punchlines misati. Just go right ahead So Hannah's prayer was granted. She received the gift for which she had so honestly Intreated as she looked upon the child.  She fulfilled her vow She loved her child with all the devotion of her mother's heart But she had received him as a treasure concentrated to god And she would not withhold him from the from the giver his own now I'd look at the first part of not flashlight where she gets her prayer answered And I think often we may view prayer in the wrong perspective Now Hannah is told Go your prayer has been answered But now it's not that anything is she doesn't just get pregnant just like that I mean because our prayers are not answered just like that. I mean so she just lives. Ah, yes My prayers been answered.  She's not Mary. Mary was an exception to the rule. Yeah No, it's true. It's true. Um, you know, you must back up prayer with action And uh, we see Hannah did that and she did it in faith. I'd like to say she did it in faith She must have tried a hundred times before but then she now did it with faith. Uh, um I I perhaps maybe could you read the did you know part that did you know part which I'm right is really what we're trying to say in a very A concise manner that did you know part that did you know like did you know Prayer is opening of their heart to God as to a friend Not that it's necessary in order to make known to God what we are But in order to enable us to receive him prayer does not bring God down to us But brings us up to him, you know as in you know as in if we look at this perspective of opening up your heart As to a friend. What do you tell your friend? You tell your friend the ups the downs in graphic and horrifying Say I mean for you.  I mean just think about it. If you had a friend who knew everything about you Could you say that you can connect with them? Yeah, not exactly.  You know you go and now put put put in place a plan of action for you to be able to carry it out Not because you know you you you have assurance that it's going to work But because really you believe You believe that you know, this is the best solution, right? And that's what we see here and it's an important aspect of prayer that Even after even after you have prayed Then you must move in faith, you know, just like Hannah did And so I just want to invite Seth With some of the punchlines just to look at other people who prayed and put it into action You know people who prayed and actually followed up Seth if you can read for us the first was Genesis chapter 20 verse 17 Okay Genesis chapter 20 verse 17 he says to god and to god healed Abimelech his wife and his female Slaves so that so they could have children again Precisely and this is talking about the the time when Abraham prayed to god. Remember Abraham had unfortunately lied that Sarah was his sister, right? And now he prays to god and god comes through once again Elias if you can be sorry Silas if you can read the book of first Samuel chapter 7 and 20 first 27 First some of the second seven First Samuel chapter 7 second Samuel chapter 7 first 27 Okay, it says Lord Almighty God of Israel you have revealed this to your servant saying I will build a house For you so your servant was found courage to pray this prayer to you Yeah, precisely and this verse is very good. This is almost showing us that we should not be afraid to pray You know, you look at The last part of that verse it says so your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you You know, a lot of the times when we are feeling this heart and a lot of the times when we don't know where to go to It's even hard to talk to somebody, you know, because you might feel perhaps they might judge me Perhaps they will not understand how I how I feel where I'm coming from Perhaps maybe you're even in the wrong and you're afraid that there might be consequences If you divulge this information, but we have been told that it is not that way with god with god You can find courage. You can take Solitude you can take solace in confiding in him Misati if you can read for us Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 Don't be anxious for anything But in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving Present your requests to god That's that's that's you know, don't be anxious for anything and here the bible is trying to tell us, you know Do not worry. Do not worry about anything, you know Misati, perhaps maybe just as you read that verse, I don't know How would you relate that verse to the story of hannah, you know, or you know to the story of hannah? Yes, indeed I see it is that hannah at first was anxious for a lot of things Because what would happen as hannah was the first wife typically because if penina got kids then then why would Elkhana need a backup Okay, so penina was the backup Yeah, so she was sort of like the subordinate to hannah then hannah could not get kids, but then now the society required Kids for the legacy to be continued.  So she was very anxious at the point she now goes to god She goes to god and says god you must Give me a child. I think similar to where jack was wrestling with god You could just see the way that for hannah it was in her spirit.   You know, but why do you think just put yourself in shoes now? Why do you think she wanted a baby so much? Yeah, okay, perhaps I think just to Just to to stop to be able to stop penina from mocking her and Also feeling the The goodness of Having your own children I'd like to jump in right there because Like, you know, I find it fascinating that often we feel that god is too big too mighty to care for our whims and our desires For real like god answered hannah's whim. It was like god She's mocking me. Please. I don't want to be mocked. Just please. I mean the child is yours Okay, it feels a bit sad for some well to have been charged to the priest without his consent But that's another matter. But the thing is like god answered her whim.  That's something petty But god answered it god cared for hannah's pettiness. So you speak Yeah, he was he was right there in the midst of it. He knew Exactly how she felt, right? That's a very good one asset Just coming back to the punchlines. Please read for us from the book of nehemiah chapter nine verse 31 nehemiah chapter nine verse 31 Okay nehemiah Chapter nine was 31. It says do you Mercy do you did not put an end to the and born and born boredom them and or abandon them For you are glorious and merciful god Massive full god. Yeah, thank you for me.  This is really for anyone anyone can answer this Go right ahead Silas. I think you you want to say something Okay, I think this shows this story shows that anything we ask From god is not too small or too big to be answered by him. Yeah, it's Yeah, perhaps it's kind of says that as long as you ask he'll give you and As long as it's at the right time Yeah, we'll give it to you Yeah One question that I had was that did hannah deserve a child or was it merely by god grace that she got one? I think um Hannah really deserved that child because remember hannah used to mock him mocha penina. Yeah, penina used to mock her Penina used to mock her. Yeah, so in any any time that penina comes around hannah He she says that oh, you don't have a child. Why do you need a child that badly? Yeah, and remember what I said Before that hannah eventually decided to Take Samuel to the temple and he was at that time. He was staying with pristele and god called him in a very with a very at a very young age and I think it is amazing that god really cares about us and He eventually answered Hannah's prayer and hannah fulfilled her promise to Take back Samuel to the table. Yeah. Thank you for that. Uh, what do you guys think? I'll just stay on this a little while and then we'll move on to to to what you're bringing upstairs What do you think? Do you think that that hannah? Deserve that child or was it grace? I think the thing would be like what is grace? Grace is unmerited favor That's that's how I see grace. I think that's how the bible defines grace like to quote it in verbatim Now, I think is Like as human beings were like, what do I deserve? I deserve to be punished. I deserve to die As I don't deserve an abundant life because an abundant life comes to those who live holy and Concentrated lives those who have no seen in them the pages of sin is there But I think is here I'm like, how do I see christ's grace and I think when we look at grace the words and merited favor are inadequate to quantify and that satisfies like your Your longing for grace on a spiritual plane. Yeah, but you know, we live in the flesh day every day by day You know, we live in the flesh The question is how do I see christ's grace in the flesh? And I think hannah saw christ's grace in the flesh Because from the fruit of her womb She got her joy. Indeed. And I think it's the same way like hannah was what she was direct And I find this translation I reading I'm reading from look 11 Boss 10 I mean this translation direct Don't bargain with god Be direct Ask for what you need.  I don't want it god could be like as inside god This is what I desire hannah was clear. I desire a son She wasn't I desire a daughter. She was clear. She was specific. I want a son Give me a son And that's what she got Just direct she was direct and that's a very good point that you bring Grace is really unmerited forever. And I think that you if you look at the story even hannah herself Saw that this was actually a gift from god You know, she had been trying it her own way. She had been trying it her own way for such a long time And didn't write in yeah, that reminds me of rachel Yeah, the story of rachel and laia because I think rachel tried it her own way so hard She tried it her own way so hard and I mean and it was so hard to the point That one of laia's children came with the mandrake. The mandrake is a Sort of like an aphrodisiac That they used in that time. So then rachel was like, you know what? Give me the aphrodisiac.  She was like I want it As in I'm going to do it my own way. I must Yeah, I mean, so that's the thing. So she was trying it her own way and accepting with hannah Yeah, it's impeccable. You know, we do it all the time In and we have to remember children. We don't deserve children Children are a gift from god. You look at even abraham and sarah You know trying to get the promissan They did it their own way where they got haga to come and try and get a child, you know So she recognized it Implicitly whether you like it or not.  I've tried. I've tried. I've tried. I've tried. I've tried. I've tried. I don't know We have done what with with alkanah, but we can't get one So she went there and prayed to the only source that she that she knows and god grants her prayer And she granted so much that now we move on to what you were saying Which is really the friday part and I'd like to ask If you have if you have your bible if you can read for us from Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18 Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18 And it's and the question likes, you know, if you want something so bad You've prayed for it so bad. God has finally granted it to you Ephesians chapter 6 verse 18 You've granted it. God has finally given it to you And then he asks you to give it back to him. That sounds that sounds tough. Okay Yeah, Ephesians 6 6 18 It says pray always with all your heart pray always with all and play pray with Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there and to with all Savior Perseverance and supplication for all Saints Yeah, it says praying always with all prayer And supplication in the spirit and watching there and to with all perseverance And supplication for all saints This is an admonition that we're given at the end of the book of Ephesians by paul And he's telling us really to pray, you know, to to to to to to supplicate ourselves You know and really just put ourselves in the shoes of one who is really in need And that's the and that's where hannah was but now I want to ask our panelists and just seek some opinion When you're praying like that, what sort of attitude do you have to have to finally receive that thing? And then give it out You know, you've prayed like hannah people have thought you're drunk. What sort of attitude do you think hannah had? to You know pray in such a manner And then still give it out I think the word look at it is that hannah viewed having a child as the process rather than the destination That is so having the child was a process That pregnancy period Yeah, the breastfeeding period for why she saw it as a process So it's like the same way job said the lord who has given has taken naked kmi from my mother's womb And naked shall I return? Wow? And I think that's how hannah approached it.  God desires to give me an abundant life And whatever he asks of me Will always be either a pathway to an abundant life Or it will be A milestone in my abundant life. Wow. Wow. I think she realized because for her Thing I became fascinating that she had many other sons after and daughters actually Yeah, no, it's true. It's true. Um, so essentially what I hear you say is that she had an attitude of trust She trusted that, you know, god had the power even not only to give her one child But even to give her more, you know, and and and that's the sort of attitude that we should have even when we pray You know, we should have an attitude of trust an attitude where we are able to Despite all evidence to the contrary, you know, fine. I've not had a child for long I've just had one gd. Please at least give me two You know, but she she trusts in the abundance of god, you know, she trusts that god has the power even to give me more You know, and uh, and it's incredible. I just wanted us to read the father insight. We said to perhaps you can read for us Uh, the father insight, uh, just on on on on how we should pray and the sort of attitude we should have in response to that Okay, I think the attitude we should have while praying is humility knowing your place in front of word Knowing why you're praying and why you really need what you're asking for Before you actually go to god and ask him for it. Okay. Okay. No, thank you for that addition And that's totally true. Uh, go ahead with the father insight Father insight speaks to us that our prayers are not to be a selfish asking Merely for own benefit. We are to ask that we may give And we are to look upon every duty however humble as sacred because it is a part of god service Our daily prayers should be lord help me to do my best Hit me how to do better work Give me energy and cheerfulness Help me to bring into my service The loving ministry of the saviour Yeah, indeed indeed I like I like the first quote that you read and that quote come from christ object lesson page 142 and it says, you know, our prayers Are not to be a selfish asking merely for our own benefit. We are to ask that we may give You know, and that really encapsulates the whole A story of hannah, you know, she asked for that child You know, she asked for that child and was ready to give it back You know to give back the child back to the service of god, you know And uh, we know the story of someone he later turns on to be a great judge in israel, you know And so just from that one selfless act, I'd call it selfless wouldn't you? I think that's too very selfless on her part. She could have hung on to that child But she gave out willingly. I don't know if we have anything to say that before we comment on the second one Yeah That wasn't like that selfish But remember hannah really wanted to give The child back to god and She prayed without season and you know, if you pray consistently You have first of all you have to think on what you want to pray for Like let me take as an example um, if someone wants to pray to get a financial increase of whatever uh, business they are doing in today's life maybe you if you want to Open your own business and you don't have the financial Assess the financial help that you need And you have to like think first Before you actually Go to the action Yeah Okay, no, I think you bring an important point Whenever we pray we must we must ask what is the end result? When what is the end result of what I get? What you know, is it going to be a benefit to other people? You know, what's what's what's in it for others? You know, it's not all about you. It's not all about me All right The second part is really a part that you know admonishes us to do our best in whatever we do I like the last part particularly that you read me saturday that says, you know Our daily prayer our daily prayer should be lord Help me to do my best Teach me how to do better work. Give me energy and cheerfulness Help me to bring into my service the loving ministry of the saviour, right? And this should be your daily prayer really Yeah So ladies and gentlemen, we've come to the end of the lesson, but it's a wonderful lesson I just want to give the panelists perhaps two minutes each two minutes each or Just to to tell us really what is their parting short? What do you think that one should learn from this lesson? What did you learn from this lesson? And what what do you think is pertinent for us as we read this lesson? I will start at the very end there with To me I learnt that Whenever you pray you have to Think fast before you actually pray for the thing And I've learnt a very valuable lesson from the story of harner Is that God said bring your children come Bring your children back to me and it really helps us in that suspect that we At times do Something bad out here like for example Taking alcohol and such stuff and it's harmful to our bodies and I think we should not Follow the advice that we have From our friends. Yeah Okay. Thank you so much So As I read this lesson and I looked at the title prayer power So of course the title isn't a question. It's a statement We are declaring that prayer has power now the question is how And then the answer I found that question is we may often we often look at power as some mystical Power as some mystical entity when in reality the more accurate view of prayer Is what new age people call manifestation? Other people are like I am going to meditate clear your mind. That's sort of thing like what prayer does At first prayer becomes a sort of meditation Where it allows you to see things from a higher perspective It allows you to look beyond your current issues and connect with the power greater than yourself A power that is above and beyond your problems And in that moment you have an objective view of your problems I think that people who are like it just came to me Our spring and the answer came to me and the idea came to me and I had a voice The same thing with Elijah like he had a still small voice and then pray is a sort of manifestation Why would I say this in manifestation? Well, like, you know, you need to allow the universe when you align yourself with the universe Okay, fine But I think we look at the I think we often shun what we do not understand as satanic But if we look at what what would this possibly mean God has put in this world laws He has put into this world dictates And that is if you throw yourself off of a high building you're gonna fall down and you're gonna die You're gonna break some bones as in gravity is real So in the same way God has put into place The law that whatever you pursue with your whole heart That what James calls a man who is not double-minded When you pursue something with your whole heart God is going to grant it to you regardless of who you are Because it is his law and his law is immutable and changeable and absolute And that is why often there may be people who We may see that succeed But then the reality is They don't see prayer a some mystical thing They see it as a way of being real like Jacob Jacob was really was like, you know what I'm gonna make sure that the only Animals that meet are the animals that are Mine that is I'm gonna make sure that the children at a born Are actually a speckled one And then after it's like then they once which are not speckled so his prayer Moved into the realm of practicality He acted Thank you very much that's very elaborate there So as a finish he just wants us to Remember that when we are praying we need to know what we are asking for why And how is it going to help us and help the people around us? Yes should not be selfish But For people for us and for the people around us Yeah Yeah, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. We have come to the end of our lesson This lesson is a wonderful lesson. It has so much insight so much insight And it's very difficult for us to cover it within this short time But we want to ask you to go and read it My parting short is ladies and gentlemen We have power in prayer, you know, I don't know if you've ever heard of something called a An elevator pitch, you know an elevator pitch, you know You want 15 minutes you have 15 minutes with the most powerful CEO in the world You meet them in an elevator you want to put your pitch in first, you know We have the potential To reach the greatest CEO in the whole entire world He runs the universe the whole universe and you have the power to reach him whenever you want Just by prayer just by prayer hannah reached him and by that she was able to conceive miraculously She wasn't able to do it before but through her prayer She was able to conceive You too you too can have the same results Thank you so much for joining us. I'd like to Uh Invite one of us to pray as we conclude. Please pray for us. Let's pray. Thank you, my father for the goodness that you've shown us We thank for the love that you bestow upon us and we Thank you for your amazing opportunity to grant us live an abundant life We thank you that you are almighty all powerful and deceiving and that in all things you desire our atom Good pleasure and joy. Thank you lord and Please don't be with us guide us keep us direct us And travel with us every single point moment step of the way just name pray and we believe amen amen Thank you so much


Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this second of our co-chairs press conferences for the annual meeting of new champions My name is Adrian Monk from the World Economic Forum I'm very pleased to be joined by three of our co-chairs Mitchell Baker Executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation from the USA and also on our Global Agenda Council on data-driven development Nathan Blecharsik co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Airbnb also a technology pioneer of the forum and Jeffrey Tarr president and chief executive officer of Digital Globe Who's also on our Global Agenda Council on space? So we really are making very good use of our co-chairs as you can see in other forum activities I'm going to ask them to share a little bit of their hopes and their expectations of this meeting with all of you and then we'll have some time for questions afterwards and I'm just going to start with Mitchell and Ask how the internet has matched up to its expectations for the growth and productivity Increases that we're all after in the global economy Well so far, you know the internet has exceeded any possible set of expectations It's easy to forget the internet is 20 years old Really a 20 years ago in August when it really came to the consumer scene and so far it's changed Much to all aspects of life for those of us who are connected So I think it's pretty impossible to Imagine what could have happened 20 years ago with the internet So the real question though is going forward What kind of potential does the internet have to continue to bring the kinds of changes and growth and innovation that we've seen today? You know the answer is the potential is there The power of being connected of having our economies connected our technology connected our social Networks connected our immense and the internet offers all of those things There are a Host of ways in which growth of the same scope and scale is possible Some of that will perhaps just happen and some of that requires focus So the potential is huge we need to do a few things One is actually commit to interconnectedness Over the last 20 years. We've seen interconnectedness of economies and people grow and that's important to continue So that's an interconnectedness and an openness that allows for global markets Allows for a global exchange of ideas and allows science technology and innovation to reach its full potential We actually need to commit to innovation. It sounds easy. It's actually much harder to do And so to really focus on the aspects that bring new possibilities and to work hard at it We also should commit to a global internet in our world of interconnectedness The internet is one of the great tools for moving things forward We need a global internet and not a series of local fragmented smaller networks and that possibility of Continued great growth into whole new areas is enormous. There's still billions of people not yet connected That's a huge potential for growth for those of us living in already connected worlds whole new possibilities are open There is the digital transformation of industry which has only just begun and there is the increasing mixture of data and Information to benefit not just industries but consumers and so my hope for the forum is that we address a new Course for growth that is global sustainable equitable and personal Growth needs to be global or we increase in stabilities Sustainable is necessary for economies and for our planet Equitable growth is important for stability as well as individual human beings and Personal growth is looking at growth both through increased GDP But also the possibility of every individual to increase their place in the value chain and To pursue the activities that are important to them And I expect this annual meeting to be very productive in charting this new course for growth the meeting has a Unique collection of people breadth and depth and is also a proponent of the multi stakeholder view of Life which is incredibly important particularly to the internet and to continuing to grow the possibilities of Interconnectedness. I'm honored to be a co-chair and looking forward to the events that come. Thank you Mitchell, thank you very much You talked about multi-stakeholder Collaboration as being part of this meeting and we have 1700 participants from some 90 different countries Jeffrey, can I turn to you and ask you how? Collaboration between some of those participants can move us towards concrete action on some of the development issues We're faced with certainly We live in a world where the challenges we face today are far too complex for anyone organization or nation to solve alone World Economic Forum and This very important event is bringing together innovative leaders from across government industry academia and global development organizations and By doing so it enables new connections and with those connections new solutions I can speak from experience having attended events in the past That connections made and fostered by the World Economic Forum have enabled us to make Contributions to some of the world's greatest challenges for example last two years ago at Davos I met with Andrew Steer the CEO of World Resources Institute that led to a collaboration Which has helped us contribute to the mitigation of the environmental impact of forest fires in Indonesia and fires started by As a result of land conflict and clearing lands for palm oil a Meeting with Chris Elias Elias of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with Bill Gates himself last year Led to a partnership which has enabled us to make a contribution to their extraordinary efforts to Eliminate eradicate polio Where it exists in the world? My hope for the next few days is that We will I'll be able to make new connections that will help us contribute But also as co-chair more importantly to help others do the same to make those kind of connections that Enable those here and the World Economic Forum to contribute to some of the most pressing global challenges of our time and Also to contribute to economic growth that comes from collaboration Jeffrey, thanks very much one of the Voices we heard from from China this morning was Chong Wei of the DD Qwadi One of the companies that's almost synonymous with the sharing economy is Airbnb If I can turn to Nathan Blacharszek and ask you Nathan How is the sharing economy going to deliver on the promise and the expectation? Is it are we placing too much hope on on what it can do for us in transformation terms? Well, this is my third year at the Annual meeting of new champions and my first year here. I must say that The sharing economy was an obscure term Airbnb was an obscure term most people here hadn't heard of it It wasn't on their radar, and I think really over the last two years. It's become a really big part of the the agenda in conversation here and Everyone I've met has has used Airbnb And I think it really speaks to how far we've come into the fact that this idea has scale Incredibly so and in that sense, I think it has met the expectations that were originally laid out But of course the real question is how big and how mainstream can the sharing economy become? You know in the Airbnb case 50 million guests have used Airbnb today 17 million alone this summer So incredible trajectory, but where will it all end? And I think my hope for the conference this year is to have a conversation across industry and With different heads of state and figure out how do we connect this new and clearly very powerful concept to? traditional business and and traditional governance to to really realize the full potential of the sharing economy and For their mainstream this activity Thanks to all of our co-chairs. Can I just get a sense in the room of questions? I know all of them have full schedules and appointments lady the front and Can we get a? Microphone to you. I think we might have to pop our headphones on non-Chinese speakers amongst us and If you give us a moment to do that that would be fantastic. It's on channel one for the English translation Sorry, I was remembering your question this morning I have a question for blackie and my question is that what's your opinion of the relationship between innovation and sorry between innovation and the regulatory and What experience do you learn from the American and the European markets about this and how can't be used in China? Thank you Well, I think initially it was important to prove the model before there was really a willingness for For regulators to have a conversation Now that it's clear that this this model has the potential to scale and impact many people We are trying to engage in conversation as proactively as possible and we've seen a lot of progress There's been about 12 different Countries and cities in the last 18 months That have engaged in conversation deep discussion and past new policies balance policies for the 21st century That strike the the right balance between growth But also making sure that our guardrails and in place And I think this is something that we expect and hope to play out in Asia, too I think this is a concept that was born in the US and Europe But now most of the fastest growing countries in the world are in Asia China is our fastest growing from a consumer demand perspective And so I think hopefully will not be too much longer until we can have and see substantive change from a policy perspective in Asia Thank you. Can I lady at the bank? Hi, um the question that I have that dovetails you just tell us your name I'm Sylvia with Barita Satu in Indonesia So the question I have that dovetails the answer that you just gave is it's into well Indonesia is the second largest Market for Facebook and Twitter. So we're just wondering what plans does a B&B has for Indonesian market And whether in general is Indonesia on your radar Okay, and can I also just get a sense of if we have other questions For the panel because I want to make sure I bring in our other two co-chairs So we have questions more broadly lady there and lady there my quick response will be that Bali certainly a very popular destination and one where we've had some activities meeting with our community All of Asia is growing very quickly But we have to prioritize our focus has really been on China in Japan And soon to be India Thanks Lady there Thank you. I'm the journalist from CBN news and I got a question for them and You mentioned that you have 50 million customers now and I want to Know how many customers are from China and what's your next plan to open up China market? I Don't have the specific breakout from China But what I can say is China is the fastest growing outbound market It's grown 700% in terms of travelers coming from China going elsewhere in the world using Airbnb And so we see huge potential here obviously someone question for For our other coaches picking up off that is is what to what extent is China going to become a Place where lessons are imported to one where lessons are exported where we're seeing China as somewhere where we have to Not just bring Practices in but export practices from Jeffrey. Well, we see China as playing both roles And the way that we participate in the market in China is primarily through a joint venture With a Chinese entity China Seaway, which is part of CASC Mitchell Well, there's no question that China is and will be an even bigger source of innovation And new ideas going forward. I think the degree to which those export well Depends a little bit on the nature of the Chinese market and the structure if it's a very highly localized market and if it's a market that's protected from Global competition then I think the export of Chinese innovations will be much more difficult because they will be Very locally grown and that's of course difficult to market. So I think the extent to which the Chinese Economy is open and and participates in a give-and-take with the global economy will increase the opportunity For Chinese companies to become truly global Lady that with the microphone I will asking Chinese okay the theme of this annual meeting is technology and growth But innovation is more than just technology It also include complices many other environmental, you know a talents issues. So This question could be small could be big. So what do you think is the real driver for economic growth It's just science technology or something else. So what is the real driver? for economic growth second question For your institution in which you are working for What is the fundamental driver for your long-term sustainable growth? It's one of the sub themes for this meeting is being human So human capital I think is a big part of what the forum sees in addition to technology and innovation as being crucial to To the future of economic growth But if I can turn perhaps first to you Mitchell and just ask on those two points What do you see as one of the fun as the fundamental driver Of economic growth and also what's important to to your foundation in terms of long-term? I say there's a few different drivers of economic growth a few fundamental ones You can start with that, you know a healthy population for example You know or resources, but I'll focus more on the innovation technology question The key piece the key driver for us at Mozilla is the strength of our networks That that means the underlying physical network, but it also means the social network of people So not just human capital, but the connections between people and what they're doing and also the innovation networks where do ideas come from and It's that combination for us because we're completely internet company There's there's nothing we do nothing really we grow communities, but but we're completely about the network It is actually the strength of the networks that sit on top of that including real connections between people and Unexpected connections, which is where innovation comes from Nathan Yeah, I would say there's a few components to economic growth I think you know it's gonna start with a powerful idea But then the question is how can you scale that idea and then ultimately what is the impact of that scale? With regards to scale, I would say Ideas that can engage a broad set of the community are the most powerful And I think maybe most important for driving global growth and making sure that Everyone gets to participate in that growth, and I think in the Airbnb case You know, this is one of the few economic opportunities that are really open to All the middle class at the very least which is to say if you have a home and a little bit of hospitality You can participate in this community and derive a second income and then thinking about impact for for our company We are very mission oriented We think about our long-term impact on the world not as an ROI calculation But to what extent have we achieved our North Star of helping People to belong anywhere, which means when someone is traveling outside of their element Can we connect them and make them feel at home comfortable even while discovering something new? That is our mission, and I think it's really important that companies have a strong Mission and that they articulate that mission to their community and not just have a narrow mercenary focus Jeffrey I would say when it comes down to economic growth The solution or the the fuel is innovation It's open markets, and it's geopolitical factors When I look inside my own company it comes down to talent in that talent creates new innovative product offerings that meet real customer needs And maintaining a leading edge in technology, and that is only possible by collaborating with others Just probably have time for one more question If I can just look around the room and see if we have one more question to for the panel Or else I'm going to release them into the wild and send them back into the Congress Center to their next sessions So I hope you'll join me in thanking them and look forward to seeing all of you back for the next press conference It could have us to thank you very much indeed. 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Good morning lads and lassies, Coach Javi here and this weekend I'm actually headed off to complete a coaching course. Coach Javi is doing his sea license, his United States Soccer Federation sea license. So I finished up the first week about two months ago and now I have to go back and finish up my testing phase. So basically all I have to do is run a training session and in two weeks they'll let me know whether Coach Javi is a tactical genius or an absolute muppet. Nobody here yet, Coach Javi is an overachiever, likes to get here early. Last one to leave as well. Just kidding. Today is the day that I actually present my session, I think I'm like fourth, there's like six people and then I'll get my session over with and then I'll just be observing, helping out and just playing if they need any players for the rest of the session but should be about 20 minutes that I get to present my session. I'm working on preventing the counter attack and I guess we'll see how it goes. Oh is this for your vlog? Yeah say hi to the vlog, Lauren. I love this game. What you got there, Lauren? So I'm done with my C license, got it out of the way. This weekend was literally just the assessment phase, all we had to do is go in there, run our training session, the instructors were not allowed to give us any feedback. We just have to wait two weeks to get our final grade and basically whether we passed or whether we failed but I felt pretty comfortable. I've done that session plenty of times already so I was relaxed, I didn't stress out so I think I did pretty well. Unfortunately they don't let you really record any of the sessions so I just grabbed a few clips but I couldn't actually show you guys the tactical components of it which I would have liked to but I got home, it was a long drive, it was about five hours and I was planning on just going home, editing the vlog and just finishing it there. It's a really nice day out, I want to go out, get some fitness in so I decided to come to the park, film a little training session, a little bit less formal than usual, I'm not going to go through any crazy details, just going to kind of show you guys the exercises so we'll get straight into it and I'll see you guys in a little bit. So a little bit less formal than my usual sessions, it was more of just, I just wanted to come out here, get some touches, do a little extra and also just film it so that you guys can have it in case you guys want to do the same thing. When I do this, everything I do with my left, I try and do with my right if I can. Focused on touches, simple stuff, lots of cover exercises, like usual it's always just lots of technical work. So while I was at the coaching course, since I figured you guys are always listening to me and you guys only ever see me in the vlogs and me in the videos and I'm the only one ever talking, I figured it would be a great opportunity to get the point of view from different coaches, to ask them questions, to see what their thoughts are so that you guys can also have different points of view and it's not just me talking and only what I think. So we were so busy, I couldn't really vlog much, we were on the field doing training sessions all day but I did ask them to answer one question for me. So I asked about five or six of them, what is the most valuable quality that you look for in a soccer player? It could have been anything about technical work, it could have been anything about personality, I just wanted their thoughts, their opinions, just so I could share it with you guys and these are coaches from all over the country, from different backgrounds that are coaching club, they're coaching university, they're coaching different soccer programs so I'm gonna put that here so you guys can see and then I'm gonna give you my response to that question as well after you watch the footage so let's go to the footage right now. I believe a soccer player has to have passion, he has to love the game, he has to appreciate what he has and I think once you have the passion everything else comes easy because you're not gonna give up, you're not gonna stop trying, you're gonna continue to try because you love the game so it comes from inside you. The most important thing I look for is soccer IQ, I like all my plays to have a good understanding of the game so when we work on things in practices they understand where I'm coming from. The most important thing I look for in a soccer player is their decision-making ability on and off of the field and just their general love for the game. So the most important thing that I look for in a soccer player is a two-footed player, somebody who can use their left foot and right foot proficiently on the field and are comfortable using both, they're not gonna avoid using that foot. In the game there are so many situations where players today struggle because they can only use that one foot so I'm really adamant that my players are comfortable using both feet. It's a back-effort for me, it's really important that you're willing to really just work on your game, every aspect of your game, all your time, willing to improve. That's the main thing I look for in a player. I'd say tenacity, I like players that have a good work rate, regards their position, sometimes position-specific attackers tend not to be too great defensively, defenders tend not to attack as much, I think a whole round player like that will do a job anywhere on the field for him, and adaptability as well. So work rate and adaptability, me personally, my philosophy is I'd rather take a player that I know will always give me a hundred and ten percent rather than maybe gifted or talented player that it blows hot and cold. If I had to pick just one thing, the most important thing, it would have to be their decision making and I know I've talked about this before, but soccer is played up here, yes it's a physical game, but the best soccer players in the world aren't the biggest, they're not the strongest, they're not the fastest, they're the guys who up here their brain is working twice as fast as everybody else around them. So that's my thoughts on the question, hope you guys like the response from all the other coaches, and I think this is where I'm going to end the video for today, sorry but last thing guys, make sure you subscribe, make sure you hit that like button, I put in a lot and lot of work to make all these videos with all the edits, it takes a long time after it's all said and done, it takes a while, so I would really appreciate it if you guys subscribed, if you guys shared my channel or the videos with any of your friends, but that's it guys, I appreciate it, I'll talk to you guys soon and we'll see ya.


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