Success through social physics | Alex 'Sandy' Pentland | TEDxBeaconStreet
The pattern of how we communicate with other people largely determines our success in life, more so than our IQ or our schooling. Successful patterns are ancient and built directly on our biology. By harnessing them we can leverage our social networks to make better decisions, be more creative, and be more successful. Exposing young children to these patterns is particularly important, since they contribute to good brain development.
Alex `Sandy’ Pentland helped create and direct MIT’s Media Lab. He was named by Forbes as one of the 'seven most powerful data scientists in the world’, along with Google founders and the CTO of the United States, and advises the World Economic Forum and the United Nations Secretary General.
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Alex Sandy Pentland is a brilliant man. I just had one question. What keeps Google (with use of Google Glass) or/and other companies from constantly monitoring our gestures and engagements without our knowledge? I have no doubt that they are capable of doing it right now so why wouldn't they? I am not (dis)encouraging it but I would like to have the confirmation and, moreover, the transparency from companies such as Google to know what they are currently up to. It will always be a privacy issue but in this case it isn't what I am concerned about. Don't get me wrong, I support Social Physics and I definitely love that Alex shares his knowledge with the public crowd.
4:07 I just adore the fact that as he's talking about body language, he throws his hand out towards the audience in an unmistakable gesture of: _here, try this on._ That's fekkin hilariously cute to me.
Always fascinating, thank you Sandy!
I find Prof Pentland's ideas about engagement and exploration very compelling, and would like to marry them with Jane Jacobs' ideas about vitality and economic success of cities. Jacobs found that neighbourhoods that had many different ways for people to meet and collaborate as they went through their daily routines would build stronger connections and become communities where people recognized that they depended on one another and had things in common. I think that such communities take a long while to build, but only a short time to destroy, and that we destroyed a lot of them through urban renewal, through which we destroyed functioning communities, replacing the old neighbourhoods with housing projects. These new project were populated with random individuals, without connections to their neighbours. When we look at how people with low income behave, are we seeing behaviour driven by low income or by damaged communities? Jane Jacobs identified certain low income neighbourhoods that were successful at fighting off urban renewal, and those places seem to function better. See her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities for examples.
@aylbdrmadison1051
4 жыл бұрын
I loved your comment, and so I will absolutely check out Jane Jacobs. Thank you for the tip. ^-^
@arich20
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the recommendation!
Remember that word: social physics. This is very scary.
@martymartmartin4740
4 жыл бұрын
Okay Zuboff :L
Very interesting!
Right, let’s plug into his network so we can be calculated all the time and be predicted all the time, so he can make money. Algorithms decide for us to their favor. Welcome to the brave new world.
Dear Professor Pentland, I am very curious about the reasons why the richest people prefer to live in the remote places and even in an island. @MIT Media Lab
@hubertwiegand9132
8 жыл бұрын
+Qi Li They already have a robust network to engage and explore with despite the remoteness. They still travel immensely and host others at their estates.
Use computers to evaluate human interaction through their signals (e.g., mimicry in sales, engagement in dating, energy in poker) Patterns of Success Engagement Exploration (talk to other people) Low-Income Community Don't do much exploration worth health and crime Children who grow up in an environment with less engagement and exploration develop different brain features-> negative feedback loop (Poverty Trap)
Hard to hear this...turn it up!
The volume in this video is a bit low.
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suburban society has a lack of exploration by design i think, how we can overcome this?
@manikchowdhury4543
9 жыл бұрын
victor ortiz get a car
@ruisenoir
9 жыл бұрын
no
@aylbdrmadison1051
4 жыл бұрын
@Manik Chowdhury : Get a bicycle.