Moments of Impact: How 1,000 Seconds Can Shape a Generation

Moments of Impact: How 1,000 Seconds Can Shape a Generation

How can you change the world in one thousand seconds or less?

  • John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration speech took 842 seconds.
  • Steve Jobs’s commencement at Stanford took 846 seconds.
  • Malala Yousanzai UN address took 981 seconds.
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s New Year address took 1,000 seconds.

We believe we can rightfully add Sanna Marin to the list. Sanna is the Finish youngest-ever Prime Minister. She delivered one of the most inspiring speeches in 966 seconds, addressing 39,000 people at New York University.

Like JFK, Jobs, Malala, and Zelenskyy, Sanna is deeply vested in driving transformative change. She offered the audience three pieces of advice:

  1. You have the right to want things and want things to change.
  2. Wanting change is not enough; you have to take over.
  3. You have to stop being afraid.
Enjoy her commencement address:

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  • edwinkorver

    Edwin Korver is a polymath and systems thinker dedicated to integral philosophy and complex business transformation. Through his company CROSS/SILO and pioneering framework RoundMap®, he has long tackled the organizational silos that fragment businesses from the outside in. Now, with MeshMind, Edwin goes deeper — addressing the mental silos that give rise to organizational ones in the first place. He envisions a future where business harmonizes profit with purpose, common sense, and EQuitability — a vision he brings to life through the power of storytelling and his forthcoming books, Leading from the Whole and Business Regenerated.

    View all posts Vision-forward Systems Thinker · CEO, CROSS/SILO · Creator of RoundMap® and MeshMind · Author of Leading from the Whole
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