Dan Pallotta: The dream we haven't dared to dream
Dan Pallotta: El sueño que no nos hemos atrevido a soñar
We dream boldly in the dimension of our doing, but set the bar no higher than stability in our emotional lives. It’s time to dream in multiple dimensions at the same time, says AIDSRide Founder Dan Pallotta. He aims to transform the way society thinks about giving, and being. Full bio
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cuando vi a Neil Armstrong
onto the surface of the Moon.
a la superficie de la luna.
anything like it since.
nada igual desde entonces.
are necessary for great achievement:
dos cosas para un gran logro:
lessons of Apollo.
gracias a la misión Apollo
"moonshot" its meaning.
"sueño lunar".
of political leaders
líderes políticos
on the scale of Apollo again.
sueños osados como el Apollo.
de Los Ángeles y Stonewall
of LA and Stonewall
risking everything
que arriesgaron todo
was really dangerous,
era realmente muy peligroso,
lit up in rainbow colors,
iluminada con los colores del arcoíris,
citizens' right to marry.
de los gays y lesbianas de EE.UU.
I could never have imagined
más alocadas podría haber imaginado
about the Supreme Court ruling.
que nunca soñé que vería impreso.
of drag queens and astronauts.
las drag queens y los astronautas.
about the need for us to dream
de soñar en más de una dimensión
that I didn't know when I was 8,
que no supe cuando tenía 8 años,
that the rainbow colors over.
emergen los colores del arcoíris.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs,
iniciales Mercury, Gemini y Apollo,
bouncing on the Moon
de astronautas rebotando en la luna
and depression on Earth.
que experimentaron en la Tierra.
that separates us from ourselves?"
que nos separa de nosotros mismos?"
con el derecho a casarnos
y la distancia emocional
that so often separates us from our love?
de nuestro amor?
destructiva, y trágica
y del activismo sin fines de lucro,
about wars among saints
sobre las guerras entre santos
of contemporary violence
de violencia contemporánea
most easily succumbs:
sucumbe más fácilmente:
neutralizes our work for peace.
neutraliza nuestro trabajo por la paz.
inner capacity for peace."
capacidad interior para la paz".
these compartmentalized fixations
obsesiones ancladas en un futuro
for our lives right now.
de vivir el presente.
for some future humanity
para un futuro de la humanidad,
human beings sitting next to us
en este preciso momento.
of progress, we say.
el precio del progreso.
in your family life.
in both dimensions at the same time.
en ambas dimensiones al mismo tiempo.
much higher than stability
de la estabilidad familiar
nuestra vida emocional.
for talking to one another
para comunicamos
and understand one another
para escuchar y entendernos
is through the roof,
está por las nubes,
ha caído en picada.
and our future are mutually exclusive,
y futuro son mutuamente excluyentes,
we have to surrender
nuestro profundo potencial de ser,
on a circuit can be doubled and doubled,
puede duplicarse y aumentar,
and humanity and serenity and love
y humanidad y serenidad y amor
simplemente la idea aburrida
of more work-life balance.
entre la vida laboral y familiar.
more time with my kids at home
con mis hijos en casa
while I'm doing it?
en otra parte mientras estoy con ellos?
a tool for improving productivity.
herramienta para mejorar la productividad.
en la dimensión de nuestro ser
y la tecnología.
an audacious authenticity
to remove our masks and be real.
quitarnos las máscaras y ser reales.
to be with one another,
de estar en la presencia del otro,
that gives rise to so many
que da lugar a tantos problemas
trying to solve in the first place,
tratando de resolver, en primer lugar,
to economic inhumanity.
a la inhumanidad económica.
denominó Época B,
called an Epoch B,
as excited about and curious about
curiosidad científica
the development of our humanity
of our technology.
de nuestra tecnología.
we don't really understand it.
no la entendemos.
when we didn't understand space.
no entendíamos el espacio.
to technology and activism.
a la tecnología y el activismo.
of being stuck in a comfort zone.
estar atrapado en una zona de confort.
unimaginable technological achievement.
logros tecnológicos inimaginables.
of our being itself
de nuestro propio ser
of our imagination.
de nuestra imaginación.
to see who can help me with my dream,
que pueden ayudarnos con nuestro sueño,
one another's humanity.
es la humanidad del otro.
I have an idea for saving the world.
Tengo una idea para salvar el mundo.
I had this beautiful company
tenía esta hermosa empresa
for heroic civic engagement.
una participación ciudadana heroica.
outrageously with kindness.
a experimentar una bondad inusitada.
set up their tents."
sus tiendas de campaña".
the dinner line is going to get longer."
a flat tire on the AIDS ride,
en la marcha del SIDA,
were so many people there asking you
mucha gente que ofrecía ayuda.
for tens of thousands of people,
decenas de miles de personas,
they wish the world could always be.
la forma en que deseaban
with creating that kind of world
creando ese tipo de mundo
and asking them, "What do you do?"
"¿A qué te dedicas?"
aTEnder los sueños de los Demás.
Tend to Each other's Dreams.
a tree house with my kid."
en un árbol con mi hijo".
que todos quieren conocer,
to the person everybody wants to meet,
to grab a cup of coffee.
tomar una taza de café.
to fulfill our true potential,
nuestro verdadero potencial,
without ever having the chance.
la oportunidad de cumplirlo.
that deep, existential fear in one another
ese profundo miedo existencial
because we know
implica vivir con ese temor.
is to live with that fear.
in multiple dimensions simultaneously,
en varias dimensiones al mismo tiempo.
all of the wondrous things
todas las cosas maravillosas
the unbelievable things we could be.
increíbles que podríamos ser.
de explorar esa dimensión
that we have dreams there, too.
tenemos sueños allí, también.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Pallotta - Author, speaker, reformerWe dream boldly in the dimension of our doing, but set the bar no higher than stability in our emotional lives. It’s time to dream in multiple dimensions at the same time, says AIDSRide Founder Dan Pallotta. He aims to transform the way society thinks about giving, and being.
Why you should listen
"The nonprofit sector is critical to our dream of changing the world. Yet there is no greater injustice than the double standard that exists between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. One gets to feast on marketing, risk-taking, capital and financial incentive, the other is sentenced to begging,” Dan Pallotta says in discussing his book Charity Case. This economic starvation of our nonprofits is why he believes we are not moving the needle on great social problems. “My goal … is to fundamentally transform the way the public thinks about charity within 10 years.”
Pallotta is best known for creating the multi-day charitable event industry, and a new generation of philanthropists with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Day events, which raised $582 million in nine years. He is president of Advertising for Humanity, which helps foundations and philanthropists transform the growth potential of their favorite grantees. He is also the founder and President of the Charity Defense Council .
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