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SARAH STILES: I teach a course
in social entrepreneurship

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and I like to say that
social entrepreneurship is

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a lifestyle of wellness.

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If we are to address, solve,
or at least ameliorate

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some of these apparently
intractable social problems,

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we've got to be at our best.

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And so, I tell students
pick two out of three:

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mind, body, spirit.

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And, of course, they're
such go-getters,

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they'll go for all three.

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SARAH STILES: And so,
the other semester, I

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used fitness trackers for
the mind, body part of it.

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And to be filed under
the quantified self,

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students made their
wellness goals,

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used the fitness tracker,
and every Tuesday, we'd

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have a check in.

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They had accountability buddies.

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And they were keeping track.

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How's your sleep?

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Are you getting up and moving?

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And it was fascinating
to me to see

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that in a course that doesn't
technically have anything

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to do with fitness, this
gadget that they had,

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students said they were
sitting around in the library,

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and then it's time to get up
and walk around, and they did.

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They were standing at the
bus stop and, "Oh my gosh.

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It's late.

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I've got to get my
10,000 steps in."

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And they run in place.

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SARAH STILES: Most interesting,
one young man, super fit,

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super bright, but he
was always exhausted,

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and he didn't know why.

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He was eating well.

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And after using the
fitness tracker,

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he realized he is not getting
a restful night's sleep.

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He didn't know that.

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No wonder he was exhausted.

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And so there's an example
of how they brought wellness

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into their lives and realized
that when we are well, then

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we can start taking
care of other people.

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And they're high
performers even when

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they're not well, so imagine.

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