But see, / here's the deal with saying that you're fine: / It's actually genius. // Because if you're fine, / you don't have to do anything about it. // But when you think about this word "fine", / it just makes me so angry. // I mean here we are at a conference about being alive and you're going to describe / the experience of being alive / as "fine"?! // What a flimsy / and feeble word! // If you're crappy, / say you're crappy! // If you're amazing / say you're amazing! // Tell the truth! // And this / not only goes for the social construct / "Oh, I don't want to burden you with the fact that I hate my life", / or "Hey, I'm amazing! But that would make you feel terrible." // The bigger issue – / The bigger issue with "fine" is that you say it / to yourself. // That thing that you want, / I guarantee you, / you've convinced yourself that you're fine / not having it. // That's why you're not pushing yourself. // It's the areas in your life / where you've given up. // Where you've said, / "Oh, I'm fine. / My mom's never going to change, / so I just can't have that conversation." // "I'm fine. / You know, we gonna wait until the kids graduate, before we get divorced, so / we'll just sleep in separate bedrooms." // "I'm fine. / I lost my job, / I can barely pay my bills, but / whatever – It's hard to get a job." // And / you know, one of the reasons why / this word also / just annoys me so much / is scientists / have calculated / – Oh yeah, I'm coming down! // Scientists have calculated / the odds / of you / being born. // That's right. // They've crunched the numbers. // I see you up there. // They've crunched the numbers on you / – Yeah, you guys standing up, / you want to sit down for this. // They've crunched the numbers on you being born. // And they took into account / all / of the wars, / and the natural disasters, / and the dinosaurs, / and everything else. // And do you realize / that the odds, / the odds of you, / yeah, right here, put your computer away, stand up for me, / Doug! // So the odds of Doug here, / turn around, / say "hi" to everybody / – the odds... / yeah of Doug, / Doug being born / at the moment in time he was born, / to the parents you were born to, / with the DNA structure that you have, / a hundred or no – one in four hundred trillion! // Isn't that amazing? // [ I'm so lucky! ] // Yes! // You're not fine, / you're fantastic! / You have / life-changing ideas for a reason, / and it's not to torture yourself. // Thank you. // Thank you, / Doug. // You know, Christine was right / when she said all of you could be on stage. // Because all of you – we're all in this category. // One in four hundred trillion. // All day long you have ideas / that could change your life, / that could change the world, / that could change the way that you feel, / and what do you do with them? // Nothing! //