Start something nice.
But always be nice.
Because every human being will die.
Do not be late …
This is the first time I have encountered these verses of Şems-i Tabrizi
Perhaps I was living one of the hardest times.
For a long time I was working in one of Turkey’s most prominent group.
I was deeply committed to my fellow workers and colleagues.
However, high tempo and stress combined with extreme insomnia
and I unfortunately met with burnout syndrome.
This inconvenience is self-evident
as an unexplained dizziness.
I started to fall from my job, my mobility was very low
and that really bothered me.
As someone who can not get the job life balance right
It was obvious that I had to leave my job and take some time myself.
But it was not easy for me to make this decision!
Then I realized that.
My company could soon find one of my place,
he could even find a better one.
But that did not apply to my family.
They could not say in a newspaper that we were looking for a new son, a new wife.
I also had other responsibilities.
With this awareness,
I have to take that hard and sad decision for me
and I left work.
I freaked out afterwards.
I felt myself in a bigger space as my dizziness diminished.
And every day I asked myself the following question:
“Yes Emre, what are you going to do now?”
Just because I can feel better myself
I even started negotiations for a new corporate career.
But those strings did not come out of my mind.
“Every man is the age to die, do not be late”
As if Shams-i Tabrizi was poking me.
He used to say a little bit of time in your life to your dreams.
And yes, I had dreams like every human being.
But I have to admit that my dreams were having problems with passing on my life.
For example, I was a knowledgeable sea enthusiast.
In recent years I have started to deal with sailing sport
and one of my biggest dreams was to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
But I did not have it.
Sometimes we go to a bookstore, buy books we like very much,
when we get back home we are sheltering them with great care.
But we can not create the time to read.
I guess there was a bookcase in my mind where my dreams were arrayed.
and I have not even opened the first page of anyone yet.
Here is the Atlantic passage in this library in your head
She continued to wait for me in powdery form.
Who knows maybe to imagine,
it was much easier to get into action.
Maybe the only problem was I did not know how to act.
There was no clear idea in this regard.
I finally made a decision, I said the caravan is straight on the road
and I started to take the necessary steps for this trip.
And do you know what happened?
I realized this dream.
I passed the Atlantic.
me my first friend when I returned to Turkey
I remember yesterday that they said “The order was successful, I passed the ocean”.
But I know that very well.
It was not just the ocean.
There was something else there.
Something that radically changed Emre in the past and prepared her for the future …
The ocean taught me how to act in life.
That’s why today I am here.
How you whisper the ocean to me and teach you how to act
I want to talk about those three-item form.
Article 1: “Temet Nosce”
Temet Nosce is a Latin discourse, which means “know yourself”.
Maybe some of us might be familiar with the Matrix movie.
Remember, Morpheus is missing Neo from the system,
because he believes that he is the chosen person.
Then he brings him to the priesthood.
The celebratory meeting of the priest and Neo takes place in the kitchen.
And contrary to expectations, the first question is directed by the priest:
“Ee Neo, do you think you’re the chosen one?”
Neo says he does not know that with a great deal of clarity.
That is when the priest shows the wooden sign hanging on the brink of the kitchen.
It says “TEMET NOSCE” there.
And the priest goes on:
“Knowing yourself is like being in love.
No one can tell you whether he is in love with you.
Only you can know it, you can feel it.
That’s why you are the chosen person
but and only you can know. “
Neo is surprised by the reality and weight of these words.
E is not easy.
This is one of the first teachings of the history of philosophy at the same time.
Even so old
At the entrance of the Temple of Apollo in the Delphi region of Greece
He wrote a different Latin version of “Temet Nosce”.
I personally believe that this statement is a difficult burden to move on the shoulders.
You ask why?
Because we all want to believe that we are always strong.
Because we are so grown up.
For example, the best handsome, the most beautiful, the most successful,
are not we the ones who deserve the best of everything?
The education system we are entitled to
do not you just present success stories to us?
What about our business life?
Knowing the best of everything,
the most straightforward,
are not we again those who deserve every contest?
Even the movies we watch, the series are full of heroes.
The world is so success story and filled with hero
How can we fail?
Have you ever thought?
Maybe it would make me feel good to think like that before the Atlantic cross.
But as a person interested in a superb marine, I knew very well that:
“The ocean did not have such blues.”
I could fool myself, but I could never fool him.
In a way, with all my weaknesses, I face all the minus directions
I had to accept it as if I were myself.
At first I thought this approach would make me pretty hard.
But over time I realized that you made me stronger.
Yes, it’s got to be a stereotype of “knowing yourself”
It even started to lighten me.
E will now ask rightly.
Tell yourself what happened.
I will tell you now.
Koskoca is the Atlantic Ocean
I decided it was very unreasonable.
I had open sea experience, made long rods
but there has never been an oceanic experience.
Here’s where I can complete my exigencies
I joined a more experienced crew as a crew
I realized that it was more accurate and concentrated my research on this.
Finally I found Ekber and Gülin on the internet.
Ekber and Gulin were a couple who had an experience of the ocean and
The Caribbean’s St. From Maarteen Island
They were planning a transition to the city of Lago in Portugal.
I have e-mailed them.
We did our planning and I was in St. Petersburg. I went to Maarteen.
By the way, I never even knew them.
Even when I first landed at the airport
“Hello I Emre, hello we also Gulin and Ekber”
I remember that we shook hands.
However, within the next 10 days
to do both the maintenance of our tekniziz and to improve our tekniziz
and we had a chance to get to know each other a little bit.
Ekber was a very interesting personality.
Life had passed in the seas and there was a very charming character, very fatherly.
Problems we experienced during our preparations in the field
the team calmed down, the solution was usually producing the solution.
Gulin had a self-confident stance.
now we have to say most women in Turkey even to the ocean past Gülin
I think it will not be wrong.
As a team, we get to know each other so closely
it started to get more enjoyable and time passed like water.
We’ve got the last day on the site.
Our last day is St. We anchored Maarteen’s Philipsburg port.
It was a marvelous place!
First of all, excitement was at its peak.
I can easily start the trip on my dream day after a day.
Ekber and Gülin were taken early to rest.
I also had this difficult journey before
I had to sleep early to be able to collect energy.
But, I could not sleep.
I was very stressed.
At 4 o’clock, my eyes are on a land
“If you do not enter an adventure like this, are you going to land?”
I kept questioning myself.
That night, the ocean whispered to me the second article of the formula to act:
“Leave the comfort zone!”
We can define the comfort zone as follows:
In an environment where one feels familiar,
misguided
and the psychological phase in which he feels comfortable.
In fact, we can even say that this concept is alive with human history.
However, Plato was one of the first to attract attention.
In Plato’s “State” he received a stay in the “Cave Alegiisi” with
this issue has been found in important determinations.
Story, from the moment they were born
it’s about people who have been convicted in a cave.
These people are chained so that their faces are facing.
But they are so chained that they do not even see the other prisoners.
All those shadows on the wall they can see.
All the voices they hear are matching that shade
and in fact the world for them is just and only the shadows.
Day comes, one of the prisoners is breaking the chains.
Ürke ürke goes towards the exit of the cave and meets the sun.
Those strong lights of the sun hurt their eyes so much
especially with a big reflex.
When he opens his eyes again,
this time he is able to break the chains in his mind.
Because he sees in the face that it is a different world.
The message of the story is clear:
You can not change unless you go outside the comfort zone,
If you can not change, you can not be a part of your future.
Yes, being in the circle of trust can make us feel comfortable.
But when we think that new experiences are beyond that line
in fact it brings with it the risk of not being able to change for all of us.
Remember this story
my eyes are “from the land,
I was able to translate them back to the open seas.
And yes, maybe that piece of land was my own cave.
And what I feel inside is actually not stress, excited.
I was going to experience something I’ve never done before.
And my heart’s thundering was very, very normal.
Here are these thoughts, the preparations we made,
Feel that I am part of a team even if it consists of 3 people
it started to relieve me.
I was finally at peace with excitement
and I have been dying to open my eyes to a totally different life.
And in the morning, it was a big moment.
I can not tell you how excited I am that day.
We got an iron to start my dream trip
and St. From Maarteen, we started to watch that vast horizon of the ocean.
The weather was exactly what we wanted. Our plan from Maarteen
After reaching the Azores for a few days in the Azores,
Reaching the city of Lago in Portugal and ending our journey.
We thought of everything, we worked in shifts.
Except for our shifts, we can take care of our little things on our boat
we were resting.
Every morning we were working on your meteorological report from the satellite.
Afterwards we could do small touches on our daily course.
Everything was under our control and went as planned.
As long as the weather changes one day …
The rapord we got from the satellite that morning
a thunderstorm appeared around 2-3 degrees north latitude.
When we are heading north-east we make a sudden decision
we had to break our course south east.
We had to avoid that storm, it was very clear.
But at the same time,
It also meant that we had to move away from our goals.
After two or three days in this direction
we opened our map and made an assessment.
According to our current coordinates, instead of going out to the Azores, our intermediate goal
It seemed more logical to reach Madeira.
Even if they go for two or three more days
We could even reach the Canary Islands or Cape Verde.
Plans began to deteriorate, uncertainty was rising.
If you think you are going on a journey full of ambiguity,
You are aiming to reach Europe, but developments lead you to Africa.
So this, instead of the island ferry Bostancı pier
It is not like a ferry to Kadıköy Pier.
I’m talking about a whole new era.
Obviously, this uncertainty had devoured me.
Ekber and Gulin seemed a lot more comfortable with me
but at the first opportunity I went to Ekber and expressed the reaction:
“Ekber, we are going to reach the dead Azores? How are we going to Portugal?
Nothing goes as we planned, what happens? “
Maybe the corporate Emre has revived
“What do you mean we can not sleep? What do you mean we can not reach our goals? “
he was in a coma.
On the other hand, Ekber told me that
gave a very clear answer:
“My emre, the weather has changed. What are you gonna do?
This is not something that none of us can control.
Also our ultimate goal is to pass the ocean,
It is not to arrive in Portugal.
We just changed our route to reach our goal.
You can calm down. “
The ocean this time through Ekber
I was not whispering Article 3 of the formula to act on me:
Be like a pebble!
You know the story of the pebble stone.
It is also like all other stones
it is a piece of rock that has its own corner, shape.
Over time, it is exposed to nature,
it allows the corners to wear away instead of breaking apart and disappearing.
It continues to exist by changing its shape, but it never loses its essence.
It is always a stone for.
We also mentioned the “Nosce of Temptation”
We all want to believe that we are really strong.
At the same time,
he loves everything he can control and his misdeed.
Because it makes us feel comfortable.
In this way we can define our own comfort zone.
But I assure you:
The ocean was a completely different environment from our private or business life with our fiction.
First of all, it was much stronger than we were.
We did not even have a chance to confront him.
Also, it could not be controlled.
The things we can control were limited to our craft.
Our rudder, sails, cranes, ropes etc.
And the most sensible act we need to do for the moment
read the ocean correctly and understand it correctly
and keeping pace with the elements we can control.
I want to open a parenthesis here.
Do not you feel too much control in your life?
Sometimes I can even check something more
do we not prefer to wait and postpone moving?
You are actually the ocean, is not life itself?
I know it’s so easy to say, much harder to understand.
At least it was for me in the ocean.
It took me time to understand it, but the moment I can assimilate it,
That tension in the inside, together with the enterprise Emre that wakes up like that monster
He flew away again and left his place in that sweet excitement.
And then you know what happened?
The weather conditions also improved,
our luck has gone and we have reached the Azores.
We’ve repaired our tees in the Azores, we’ve renewed our supplies.
After a few days of rest we sailed to Portugal Lagoç.
I spent about 30 days after a trip
I realized one of my dreams.
And that was just the beginning for me.
Because I knew very well how I could act in life now.
And I started to apply it to every area of my life.
In fact, today I am devoting myself to moving people and companies.
This was my story.
Who knows how you have your stories.
Maybe you have similar experiences
and in this process you have discovered your own new values.
Maybe you have not had a chance yet.
If not, please do not hesitate.
In this life, where the price of the disciples is very heavy,
use these three-item formulas:
1. Know yourself well
2. Show courage to get out of your comfort zone.
3. Become like pebble, adapt to the outside world and do it yourself.
I can not remember the name at all,
I have a Danish philosopher who I can not even pronounce.
And that good promise I have never forgotten:
“Life is understandable looking backwards, looking forward.”
Focusing on the past, proud of him
you can only be the future but the future.
But if he goes out of the circle of trust
if we can have the courage to acquire new experiences
that’s when we are on our own
we can begin to shape our future.
I believe that this will bring a very different power to man.
What kind of power?
Sometimes I face a very difficult situation,
my wife, Deniz, tells me:
“Emre, do not … But the ocean is human, you will not be able to cope with it”
I was talking about
“If I succeeded, I could accomplish anything”
It is not a power in style.
What I’m trying to say is that at any moment in our lives,
we can move easily in any field
and the power to know that we can shape our future.
So do not stop!
Do you have a dream, a passion?
Move on!
By doing something better or better in your work or life
do you believe that you can change things?
Move on!
Do you think the world could be a more livable place?
Move on!
And do not forget those words of Shams-i Tabrizi,
Every human being will die …
Do not be late …
Thank you so much!
”
Be First to Comment