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I was always in that connecting, doing things together. My parents also very much taught us that, when we moved every two or three years, and when we came somewhere, we would ask, how does it work here? Because it was very different cultures, Arab culture, Chinese, Malayan, Indian. They would say, go out to a sports event or club or school, connect and do something, contribute, do something together, because that's the way you find out. So there was always this, when I come somewhere, okay here I am, how can I contribute? That's the way I can connect. I had to actually learn also to connect without doing something, but that has been the foundational way of coming together to create something, an event or something nice. It's all, in essence, coming back to the same ways of working: how can we deeply listen, take a first step, listen again, take another step, and listen again?