[MUSIC] The next section, talking about the black panther and the sacred monster, and systems thinking for sustainability. And when I think black panther, I'm thinking Black Panther civil rights. >> Yeah. >> So, can you explain that to me? >> Well this is a different black panther, this is Eusebio, he's in anybody's top ten list of soccer players of all time. He's a Portuguese guy. Well, he played for Portugal and played a lot of his club soccer in Portugal, but he's from Mozambique, which was at the time, a Portuguese colony. He scored hundreds of goals, like 600, between 600 and 700. He had scored so many, nobody really knows for sure. >> [LAUGH] That's a good problem to have! >> Yeah, exactly. And he was the leading scorer in one World Cup. And won a bunch of top championships in Europe the Club Soccer. So he is the Black Panther, that's his nickname. And then the Sacred Monster is this guy Mário Coluna. Who almost had like the exact, same career trajectory as Eusebio. So Coluna came from Mozambique as well. He went to Portugal to play his national team soccer and his club soccer. But Coluna didn't score nearly as many goals. So Coluna's more like a midfielder, and he kind of anchored the team. And so I use those two guys to compare and contrast systems versus reductionism. So systems thinking is kind of this idea of looking at how everything is connected, and I think it's a hard concept to explain in two seconds, but it's something that hopefully will come across through out the class. >> Yes. >> So, reductionism is basically breaking down things down into their parts to try and understand them, which is something we need to do. >> Yeah. >> You can't just say, I'm going to make a model of the whole. We're going to look how everything is connected, that's basically the world, right? Everything we're looking at is some kind of specific breakdown of some simplifications. So, reductionism is that type of simplification, and systems thinking is like working more the connections. And can you see the pattern, can you see the, again, the relationships between different things that can get missed in reductionist. So, reductionism, like applied to soccer. That's where we start to use the Eusebio and Coluna example. You can appreciate Eusebio, the black panther, with reductionism. So the goals I just talked about. It's like, okay we can break this down into steps. Soccer, there's very clear measure of who's being successful and how the game's going. It's the goals. That's the currency of soccer. So you can see Eusebio's greatness with reductionism. Coluna, on the other hand, people from Portugal, one of my best friends is from Portugal. He'll argue that Coluna is just as essential to Portuguese soccer history as Eusebio, there's a good point there, but you have to be looking at the whole system for that. So Coluna scored some goals, but he played more in that mid-field role where he did as much to stop the other team from scoring goals as he did to help his own team score goals, which is no less valuable contribution but it's harder to see on the stat sheets. You actually have to watch the game and study the connections and relationships. And then as we'll get into some more of the Coluna stories, but he also did a lot, even off the field. So it's like, here's expanding the system even more. So what's happening on the field is interesting, but off the field is, he was actually a mentor for Eusébio. When Eusébio's parents sent him to Portugal, the mom sent a note to Coluna and said take care of my baby for me. So, how do you measure that? But it's invaluable. So that's kind of the Black Panther and Sacred Monster, are two that I carry through out to explain some of the systems and sustainability concepts. >> Makes sense. >> Does that makes sense? >> It makes a lot of sense.
