Farrow built his entire Dominican address toward this declaration, spending the speech systematically reclaiming the qualities that older generations criticize in the young — impatience, risk-taking, disobedience, unfocused curiosity — and reframing them as the very tools needed to solve the world's most pressing problems. He illustrated his case with stories from the front lines: a Tunisian rapper whose garage-recorded protest song sparked a revolution, a child soldier in Darfur who found the only way to be heard, and students on the Dominican campus who built initiatives linking Iraqi refugees with Bay Area veterans. He noted that more than half of all Fortune 500 companies were founded during recessions by frustrated young people. His closing message was that previous generations have failed to solve problems from pandemic disease to climate change, and it would be young people — with their evolutionary gift for recklessness — who would break through the stale thinking that has prevented progress.