WEBVTT 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Sunil Sanghvi - LSI External Advisor You know, we all remember times that were transformative for us. My freshman year, I became a different person. I formed lifelong friendships, changed my conception of myself, and then for 30 or 40 years, there haven't been those opportunities for that big transformation. An LSI can be a period of transformation again. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:01:02.000 Harry L. Davis - LSI Faculty Advisor Part of the difficulty, or challenge of working on a new identity is letting go, not only how I feel I am, but how other people see me. So it requires the opportunity to imagine ourselves in a quite different way. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:47.000 Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer - LSI Faculty Advisor Why should someone become an LSI fellow? And who might that kind of person be? It's going to be somebody who has spent his or her life building something, being successful, being creative, and at this point in their life, they're turning and they're looking at the edifice that they have constructed with their lives, and the question is, now, what do I want to do? Something deeply transformational that's going to change me, change the way I might think about myself, and change what I can do for the people around me. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:02:19.000 Diana Petty - LSI Director The leadership in society initiative is structured as a three quarter program, and each of those quarters aligns to distinct learning pillars, know oneself, understand the world and envision the future. Fellows will move through a core seminar series as a cohort in which they will reflect. They'll think about their core values, and they'll also learn from each other. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:37.000 Doriane Miller - LSI Faculty Advisor LSI represents a special opportunity for people who are thinking about that next stage of their lives, because not only will they be learning in an environment like the University of Chicago and all of the wonderful things that we have to offer, but they'll also be learning from their peers. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:03:08.000 Sunil Sanghvi - LSI External Advisor To have a period of reflection in in a very intense, transformative setting, where you've got time, you've got a chord of other people following the same path and in the same period of transformation, where you're exposed to lots of things. What are the social causes that you can get involved in? LSI can be a super accelerator for someone who's trying to transition to a new self and a new cause. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:35.000 Paul Alivisatos - UChicago President Being in an environment where people deeply question things and they do it in a way that is genuine, that's the place where you want to take a risk. We're thinking about, how can we grow as a university by becoming a place where our capacity to create new ideas can be more tightly woven into the fabric of the society around us. By joining us, you will be a part of our journey, just as we will be a part of yours.