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Mick: What advice would I give to people?
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We have the ability to truly change the world.
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There's no blueprint on how to do this.
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There's no pathway to follow.
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All you need to do is just say,
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I’m committing to changing that. And then, you
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figure out how the heck you're gonna
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pull it off. 
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This one night, I happened to show up at a gallery event where I was
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exposed to an artist named TEMPT ONE. 
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Angst: Mick had a fantastic time. He really
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loved the community. He just was really
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intrigued with TEMPT.
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(Upbeat music)
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Mick: This incredible artist had Lou Gehrig's
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Disease, he had ALS. And had been lying
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motionless in a bed for seven years. He
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wasn't able to express himself and
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communicate and draw. and for me that was
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that aha moment. We were gonna figure out
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a way to help TEMPT ONE draw again. I
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started to just talk to people and
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networked with people. I brought in people
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from literally six different continents
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and they descended upon our house. 
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Angst: The whole experience was marvelous. Being in
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the room, seeing what goes on with prototyping.
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Ron: Yeah this is heavy.
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Angst: With programmers and hackers.
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Total artists in a totally different way,
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but artists nonetheless. 
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Mick: And eventually, after two and a half weeks, we finally
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came up with the Eye Writer. 
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(Piano Music)
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With his friends and family, and everybody
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gathered downstairs.
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Mick’s Son: Is he drawing his name?
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Mick: He's drawing with his eyes.
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(Crowd applauding)
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Mick: TEMPT drew again. It was just this
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incredible experience.
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Shortly after I received an email from
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TEMPT that said, “That was the first time
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I'd drawn anything for seven years. I
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feel like I've been held underwater and
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someone finally reached out and pulled
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my head up.” And that was the launch of
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Not Impossible.
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One of our core tenants is technology
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for the sake of humanity. If we can be
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examples in the things that we're doing
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and the things that we're changing, what
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if other people can see that and say,
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wait a second. I can change my world. And
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that's where it transitions from just
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being a company of employees to a
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movement of people that are doing
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something way bigger than themselves. If
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not now, when?
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And if not you, then who? I'm Mick
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Ebeling. Founder of Not Impossible Labs.