 You're not defined by what you did to make money You're defined by everything you do every day that nobody pays you to do You do it because that's who you are That's what you stand for That's what will never be taken away from you It's your quality your integrity and the things you actually care about and You do them whether it's convenient or not Whether anybody thanks you or not you do them because that's who you are. It's feeding your children. It's Educating Whoever is in your life and being educated by them. It's everything for which there is no money and Money would trivialize What we're talking about and for me this non-cash economy is something that needs to be supported and learned and recognized valued Because it's the only real value The other economy that we're in the middle of of course Collapses ostentatiously every three years Like some giant disgusting dying dragon And then it's propped up all over again and Keeps not functioning Seriously not functioning Meanwhile the world continues because of the non-cash economy Because every one of us who needs a break There's someone we know who bails us out Who keeps us going through a difficult time Who says okay, you can live upstairs The only reason any of us are alive Is because of that economy that economy that's been there actually when we deeply need it and Of course those moments of crisis Are the power moments in our life Right, I mean when I'm doing a production and if the production doesn't go into deep crisis I start to worry It's going to be a rather trivial production It's when the production goes into deep crisis you say okay, we're on to something This is going to be something worth doing because we don't know What to do next and We genuinely have to ask ourselves some very deep questions and Come up with answers. We didn't have before and that's where the breakthrough is There are in many traditions Ways in which you practice giving So after a while you can start being very very very good at giving Because if you have no practice, it's hurts And the more practice you have it doesn't hurt every time But just to say I Do believe the arts were invented as this practice in giving and practice in sharing Practice in simultaneous perception as in cubism understanding there are several points of view present simultaneously recognizing what a dynamic in the room is rather than top-down hierarchical thinking beginning to understand how a dynamic moves and in this case What we're talking about in the 21st century now that artists are making movies Musicians are painting Everybody's doing something that's not their art form Thank God creating radically shared spaces So if I may just go to the next step where I mentioned it, I just want to mention to you I Am founding at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles a new Institute called the Boethius initiative And I just want to describe to you a little bit of What I'm hoping the next stage for education is but also how this works in public life Because it's now time for universities to have serious roles in public life once again because if we leave Truth-telling to the politicians and to the legislatures that will be a problem