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A lot of people believe that you have to change each individual

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bring out the best in them to have this kind of future.

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That's not true. Individuals are shaped by environment.

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If you're brought up in a culture

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with very primitive equipment

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you're going to be primitive.

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You can't bring out anything in a human that isn't there

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and it only gets there through education, through knowledge

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through hard work and through effort.

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You can't go off into the woods and meditate on the future.

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You have to study how things work

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and how to solve problems, not sit back and meditate.

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You can only meditate on that which you know

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and so you go around in a constant loop

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and you do not come out of that loop.

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In other words, people say "Let go!

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When problems become too tense, learn how to let go!"

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but the finance company doesn't let go.

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They remind you that you have a debt. The landlord doesn't let go.

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When you have a disease, if you can't afford to treat it

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you can't afford medical care, you can't let go!

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Let go and let things go away?

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You'd become ill and unable to get around

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unable to support yourself.

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The sooner we learn how to let go

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of these fantasies and artificialities

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the sooner you'll see tremendous progress on Earth.

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We must evolve beyond simplistic religious notions.

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We must evolve beyond simplistic notions

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of bringing out the best in an individual. There's no such thing!

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You can only bring out what's there.

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If you take an Eskimo and put him in an isolated environment

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and bring out the best in the Eskimo

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it'll be related to javelins, seals, hunting

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building igloos and nothing else.