Now we're all born with spirit, all of us, but sometimes it gets tamped down beneath the challenges of life, violence, abuse, neglect.

It's worth taking a moment to understand this practice, because I believe it speaks to recklessness and the path we're on like little else.

So we have greed, we've got overconfidence hubris, but since we're here at TEDWomen, let's consider one other factor that could be contributing in some small way to societal recklessness.

This widely condemned governmental neglect of the Kobe earthquake victims was among the major sources of public indignation that helped popularize the reform movement from which Kan emerged.