Hello everyone and hello, Jack. Ivan here again and in this video Jack and I will very briefly discuss the concept of life phase changes and transformation. And through this discussion we introduce the assignment for the fourth week, which is the final week of the course. Where we want you to take a broader look at your life and see if you can identify specific life phases and how you can envision your next transformed life phase. So, Jack, if you were to highlight a specific phase change caused by a critical incident in your life, which propelled you into a new transformative path, what would you share with us? >> Okay, I'm going to describe an incident that happened in 1984. I was a tenured professor at University of Houston and I was out playing tennis in a hot summer day and there were clouds forming and all of a sudden [SOUND] I'm hit on the head with a bolt of lightning. >> And where you injured? >> Well, I must have been dead for a few minutes, but I regained consciousness and I didn't know where I was. I had lost my memory at that point and I knew I was in trouble. >> All right, and what happened next then? >> So I visited a therapist and the therapist said, indeed, you've lost a lot of memory and therefore you're not the same person that you were before because memories are who we are. And so what we have to figure out is what to do about it. >> All right, and this certainly was a critical incident in your life. So what did you do? Well, I was extremely depressed because I wanted to go back to the way I was and yet I couldn't. And he said, well, think about the creative approaches to the way you're going to conduct your life and that'll merge with your old life and you become a new person. And I really resisted that. >> Okay, so you did survive the incident and how did you do it? What did you do next? >> Well, we first figured out how much memory I had and then he suggested that I go ahead and try to use my creativity. And I resisted that, because I thought it was clever but I never considered myself creative. But I had to live, I had to go on, so I had to start experimenting. >> All right, so how does your story relate to the transformation and the building concept that we cover in this week? >> Well, I first tried experimenting in the classroom, and I just encountered all kinds of failures. And these failures went on for several years, and then I started figuring it out. And I realized that all these failures gave me knowledge that I could use and finally figure out that creativity and innovation were the way to go and that I became passionate about it. And so the transformation was occurring through that process, of course it took me years. Now with build up, yeah, if I would have known about bildong, I would have prepared in advance. I would have thought about being creative. I would have come up with ideas and the process would have happened a lot quicker. >> But nevertheless, you were, going through the bildong process, even though you were not aware of it. >> I was, well, I I was going through the bildong process, but it was my own build on process and it always helps. In retrospect, if I would have known about bildong in advance, I would have had to suffer so much. >> All right, yeah, okay, thank you, Jack and so now the students have reached the final assignment of the course, which is this final piece. And we want to congratulate you for this accomplishment and we really hope that the course has been as transformative for you as it has been transformative for us putting it together. So now for the assignment we want you to reflect back on your life and describe different phases you have gone through. And specifically look at what were some of the turning points or transformative points in your life so far? Try to define your life phase changes and delineate experiments or directions and steps and actions to prepare for the unknown. And create a seven to ten year vision for your transformed life ahead. Thank you very much and we look forward to your submissions. >> Yes, good luck.