I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of a mind, body, spirit, and work.

So a couple of years ago, I attended an event called Summit Series. It was a massive, massive, massive event on a boat. A giant cruise liner, a Norwegian cruise liner somewhere in the Caribbean.

There were some 2 or 3,000 people there, I forgot, mostly from Silicon Valley,

and there were incredible speakers giving talks and lectures on this boat.

Now I attended a ton of these lectures but one stood out and it was by this guy called Tom Chi,

a brilliant scientist and entrepreneur, one of the former co-founder of Google X and get this the guy who created the first prototype

of Google Glass.

Now Thomas an incredible man he's had incredible success in Silicon Valley I'm honored to now call him a friend after having met him at multiple events

She at the stage with him and put him on Mind Valley stage, but what I love most about this man Tom Chie is that he's using his genius, he's using his brilliance to save the planet.

So here's the story.

Tom was the CEO of an Innovation lab in Silicon Valley.

I was actually one of the investors in this lab.

But after a couple of years doing this,

Tom, looking at what was happening in the world today,

felt that the human race is going into a dangerous stage and if we are

not taking concrete action on things such as global warming a lot of aspects of our

beautiful planet are going to be lost forever.

Tom explained to me that by 2018 the coral reefs might be completely extinct.

So what the Tom do?

He decided to give himself a title. That title is Lab Director of the

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