The most brilliant minds on the planet are gathering in Montery, CA. for a 4 day conference, by invitation only.

Imagine a gathering where the worlds top entrepreneurs, designers, scientist and artists present astonishing new ideas. Remarkable ideas from every area of knowledge. Great ideas brought about by passion, ideas that have the power to change the world. What could be called a Cirque Du Soleil of the mind and heart.

People from 26 different countries come together to explore. Something magical happens; there’s nothing more exciting than a bold new idea.

Where they explore ideas to make our future world a much better place. You can say hello to the guy next to you and it could be Al Gore, the finders of Google and Amazon and Aero Space Engineers.

A teacher friend of mine once asked his tenth graders to blurt out the first words that came to mind on hearing the word “power.” They came out with “money,” “parents,” “guns,” “bullies,” “Adolf Hitler.” And in my workshops with adults, I’ve also heard “fist,” “law,” “corrupt” and “politicians.”

As long as we conceive of power as the capacity to exert one’s will over another, it is scary: Power can manipulate, coerce and destroy. And as long as we are convinced we have none, power will always look bad. Even my hero journalist Bill Moyers recently reinforced a view of power as categorically negative. “The further you get from power,” he said, “the closer you get to the truth.”

In my courses on time management, I point out that the very worst use of time in life is to stay at a job for months and years for which you are completely unsuited. There are a great number of people who spend their whole lives doing something during the week so that they can somehow find something enjoyable to do on the weekends.

In every case, these are men and women with very little future before them. They look upon their jobs as a form of drudgery, a penance they have to pay in order to enjoy the rest of their lives. And because of this attitude, they will seldom advance or be promoted. They will stay pretty much at the level they are, moving from job to job, and always wondering why other people seem to be living the good life while they feel like they are living lives of quiet desperation.

Out of the chaos of the present time will emerge a new understanding of the meaning underlying our existence, and every effort will be made to express our awareness of that meaning in our daily lives. This will bring about a complete transformation of society: a new livingness will characterize our relationships and institutions; a new freedom and sense of joy will replace the present fear. Above all else, mankind will come to realize that living is an art, based on certain laws, requiring the function of the intuition for correct expression.