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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Technology has made our world increasingly open, and for the most part, that's great, but all of this openness may have unintended consequences.

We all worry about our privacy settings on Facebook, but the fact of the matter is, our openness can be used against us.

After him, Philip Johnson sort of introduced (Laughter) you could say promiscuity, or at least openness to new ideas with, I am a whore.

It's an act of love, of total self giving between a man and a woman aware of their openness towards the gift of life, procreation.

You see this rising force in sort of total transparency and openness that companies are starting to adopt, all because the consumer is demanding it.

But we need to fix these problems in a way that preserves the openness, pragmatism and bottom up governance, that made the Internet so great.

It needs a profound attentiveness and a patient waiting, a contemplative attitude and a generosity and openness to those whose experience is different from my own.

And what we're learning is going to shed some light on what the romantic writers and poets described as the celestial openness of the child's mind.

The last work that I just wanted to share with you is Blind Light, which is perhaps the most open work, and in a conference of radical openness,

And one of the things that I want to question is this very popular hope these days that transparency and openness can restore the trust in democratic institutions.

And the Chinese then, in one of their periods of media openness, decided that they were going to let it go, that they were going to let this citizen reporting fly.

That really encourages and creates this openness and open culture within your company to share ideas and put your work out there so other could benefit from everything that you've done.