They needed openness.

Is that radical openness?

Openness isn't the end.

Can you quantify your openness?

They are experimenting with openness.

Openness alone can't drive change.

This openness, this forcing openness, is key, and if it wasn't entirely transparent already,

It increases our openness to change.

With loving kindness, with patience, with openness?

This is what radicals can do with openness.

Independent tribunal, openness, transparency, it all sounds great.

So in summary, while radical openness is great, given how closed we are, even incremental openness could make things dramatically better.

By the end of our lunch, we acknowledged each other's openness.

So when we talk about transparency, when we talk about openness,

Well, let's see now, if openness predicts who becomes liberal, and openness predicts who becomes a TEDster, then might we predict that most TEDsters are liberal?

For the true selves of companies to come through, openness is paramount, but radical openness is not a solution, because when everything is open, nothing is open.

His openness is a very positive quality, although not without its drawbacks.

Just as the poets and writers described, we're going to be able to see, I think, that wondrous openness, utter and complete openness, of the mind of a child.

But we just have to leave that little bit of openness, to know.

Radical openness is still a distant future in the field of school education.

So, at TED, we've become a little obsessed with this idea of openness.

And evolution, therefore, prepared us for this journey with a developmental openness to experience.

If you're high in openness to experience, revolution is good, it's change, it's fun.

But openness and inter connectedness, it comes with a cost when we think about disease.

Well, what it buys the developing organism is a plasticity and an openness to experience.

People who are high in openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel.

They can worry about how much openness is good for them, and what needs to stay closed.

This is a day for curiosity and for scepticism, for openness and for critical thinking, for inspiration and for action.

In fact, my colleague, June Cohen, has taken to calling it radical openness, because it works for us each time.

More. More.

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called openness to experience.

You're all high in openness to experience, and besides, it looks like it might even taste good, and you're all epicures.

Take more, sell more, waste more.

BRANDON More, more, more. Come on.

More and more...

So this cyber sea, which we know endlessly is the fundamental piece of radical openness, is very much under threat as well.

That's my job in the community to say we won't allow our openness and freedom to undermine the quality of the content.

More people, more cars, more smog. Me?

More safe, more secure.

No more, no more

More death? More suffering?

Little more. Little more.

More cautious, more conservative.

More servers, more help.

So obviously, as an economist, I'm deeply familiar with the fact that development, that openness to trade, is really good for developing countries.