I started thinking about when I was in college, especially as a blind person, doing a research paper was a major undertaking.

But like I said, my journey wasn't just about the research, it was about finding my passion, and it was about making my own opportunities when I didn't even know what I was doing.

So this is probably the thing I'm most passionate about is the research that we've been doing on illiteracy and how people who are illiterate communicate.

The field research that we're doing around the world with indigenous peoples.

So we started a separate line of research doing driver state modeling.

I was myself pregnant while I was doing the research for the book.

And what they found, by doing research into the permafrost, was this bacteria.

Last summer I worked at Stanford University, doing some research on cancer stem cells.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

And that made a huge impact on me when I was doing this research.

I'm doing some history research and would like to ask you a few questions.

about whatever they had been doing!

about whatever they had been doing!

So I sent this company an email saying, Hello. I'm Christien. I'm doing this research.

And sometimes by doing this kind of research, you encounter such beautiful ideas of design.

The next one got kind of a wry smile on his face and said, Well while you were, you know, doing your research, notice the condescending tone While you were off doing your research, I was off doing more surgeries than anyone else in the department of surgery at this institution.

It's something you should think about doing.

We should be doing something about it.

And I started doing research, and we found, very excitingly, that the skin produces nitric oxide.

I'm going to talk about why we are so fatalistic about doing anything about aging.

But my work wasn't just about the research.

So it's about the lack of research, basically.

I'd love to talk about it, it'd be fun, but I want to talk about what I'm doing now. What am I doing now?

That would solve the problem, but I don't see anybody doing any research on making people smaller.

You want to know more about this, go and see this film, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.

I've been doing that for about 10 years.

And so we have set about doing that.

But, I hear you say, what about the research?

What we're doing is what NASA or a large corporation would call R D, or research and development.

And they are doing some fantastic research into the characteristics, into the abilities and the socialization of hackers.

We have been doing research on botany, and we have a small herbarium of 4,500 sheets of plants.

So, don't worry about, don't stress about that stuff. We've been doing this forever.

They actually wound up doing about 40 million Furbys.

It's about your own interpretation and doing something different.

These yellow are just about to be doing this.

There's been about a decade of research about what people are calling the boy crisis.

But how do you go about doing all this scanning?

But I'm talking about the crabs actually doing the chewing.

Now, if you are doing all the things we talked about, together, and maybe some others, you can get to this wonderful point of doing without doing.

So I'm going to tell you about this, use my 18 minutes to tell you why I'm doing it, how we're doing it, and then what we're doing.

I'm about to change your life. So here's me doing it.

It's very much about the way we link thinking and doing.

JE And tell us a little bit about what you're doing.

And at last, we appear to be doing something about it.

So you see, this is not about doing good, this is about global growth and global employment.