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reflect, take action and learn more. So Sarah, what are we doing to talk about today?

So this week I went to an event that was hosted by a university called LIS, which stands for the London

Interdisciplinary School. And this is the university that I wish had existed when I was 18.

Well, no, because you wouldn't have gone to university with me. Yeah, I was coming, I was going to say

that. I was going to come on to that. Sliding doors moment. It is a sliding doors moment.

So let's be grateful for the fact that it exists now, but it didn't maybe then.

And the reason that I love it and I have spent some time there and I've met some of their students is rather than sort of choosing a discipline, their argument is things are interconnected.

Like problems are interconnected. Specialising too soon is maybe limiting. And they talk about bringing together experts and knowledge from

across art, science and humanities. So when I've talked to people there in terms of some of the

things that they're studying, they might be at the same time looking at systems thinking, but also some things around code, also organisational behaviour. So, you know,

they'll be combining different like topics and disciplines around a problem and very naturally,

very kind of purposeful in their, in their approach. Someone from someone from our team has actually done a course there as well.

It's very collect the dots and connect the dots, I think.

They do use connect the dots as like a phrase.

But if I was like summarizing it to someone else,

that's why I think it's really interesting.

And they were putting on an event last night.

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