Ayudar a los demás para ayudarte a ti mismo | Juan Luís Muñoz Escassi | TEDxSevilla

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ashley me

good afternoon my name is as I said

luis juan luis muñoz escassi and I’m

convinced that we should all

help others for them but about

all by ourselves

thus improving each our little

corner of the world

today I am not here or because of who I am or

for what he has studied or for the site

where I studied it or where I was born

or where I live nor work

I played even for office

that he occupied but I’m here because

a few years ago I discovered that with the

attitude you can change the world that

working it daily we are capable

anyone of us here from

achieve everything we set out

achieve challenges to make others happy

find a partner get a job

get financing for a project

vital or work

lose weight stop smoking travel to the place

we want

from very small and I have very clear that

is caused by the clear example of my

parents who have always seen their

eager to help others

I have always had many concerns

for helping all people either

find a job to listen to them

distribute joy or ultimately make

of life easier to look at everything started

a long long time ago

on Wednesday, November 17, 1993

they played seville

the Spanish team against Denmark

in a decisive match he gave for

qualify for the 1994 World Cup

and after having spent all night

previous in a queue with a handful of

friends to get tickets

I went with my bike with a flag

clinging to the neck to the hotel where

they found the players to give them

the last cries of encouragement but before

I was hit by the flag in

the chain of the back wheel and I

it stopped completely

‘I was about to’ hang what

it could have been a tragedy it was just a helmet

match a burn around the

neck a collar and many pains

for a while

from a very young age I’ve been a player

basketball

first team me from my school

then in the lower categories of

my city team

until when I had to move to the

junior category that they left me but

how I love this sport

I spent two or three more years playing in

another type of what was then the

second division and then I left but

I felt I needed the sport I

had loved since childhood and continue

a time running half a jog

as they continued those pains they did not let him

practice sports normally until

that a good friend of mine traumatologist

said louis the only way to get you

remove those pains by swimming

I do not know if he had given me once

it was boring

but the only way I had that

those pains disappeared it was swimming

look at the boredom part

I felt extremely rare especially with this

swimsuit so tight to my body

the plugs

I erase the glasses

in short, I resisted that it was the

last way to take away that pains

but what I did was start swimming

every day at seven in the morning

in a pool that was close to home

I went before work and there I found

with an antonio person who told me that

I was an amateur triathlete swim bike and

run and that why not to one and what

I tried I did not know what it was but I

he told it with such enthusiasm that it provides 1

and that’s when I recovered I signed up

first thing I saw was the triathlon of

Seville

I thought I was going to win but the

experience was horrible

we were 300 participants the line of

out I looked back and forth

I said this was juanlu sure you win

about to give me when I threw myself into the water

they passed me 10 over another one as much

the sides looked for the red cross

I lost the glasses and I do not remember the

last or last but it was for love

own

however he injected me with a poisonous

this sport that made me

the next week repeat and from

then every year do more triathlons

in total it can take between three and

Halons crossing to swim and another test

more than 100 participations but about

everything antonio what he told me is that what

I did for solidary causes and

allowed to unite the sport that always

I wanted to practice with my other concern

from very small that is solidarity

but look at solidarity without any

social economic or religious connotation

family but simply simply

for helping others

help people and so on in the year

2011

efe creates the pigeon challenge that is a

initiative to help people to

through sport

every year I would choose a cause why

fight and a very demanding sporting challenge

that would serve me as a speaker to call

the attention of potential donors

every year is a different cause and what

I was clear that I was not going to touch the

money the money would go directly to the

organization that promoted the cause

since then I have bought pumps

Drinking water contributed to buy a

bus for paralysis patients

cerebral and helped women with HIV

financed two families with one child

daughter with leukemia for 15 months

while the treatment lasted for

that this family was united and helps

Alzheimer’s sufferers fought for

get marrow donors

I bought 20 devices so that

sick people can communicate and

this year I’m trying to fight for

build a residence in india

so 70 women with disabilities

can have an opportunity in life

A lot of anecdotes have happened to me

during these years

I remember last year for example that

I called a girl nine

morning

there is no middle of the night on a Sunday and I

said pizzo I am Maria from the ejido ejido

We can help you through the networks

to raise funds

The first thing I asked was his age and

of if his parents were there

quickly put on the mother told me

quiet that we are in front of the two of you

I said that I would go to see her that she had many

wanting to know her and taking advantage of a

business trip

fifteen days I went to see her I was with her

I brought candy that contained adventure

and I promised him I would send him fight for

that helps me and to be the day of

your graduation

what was my surprise that day

those five children had raised a thousand

815 euros

look in 2016 had the first trial or

of 11

the challenge was 11 triathlons in 11 cities

the first of them valencia I said to

the store where I usually fix

the bicycle that was coming out for

valencia that needed it that was

to point because he started the challenge of this

year

what was my surprise that when it came to

the store that day was closed was

local party there I got very nervous

but I decided to go to Valencia and for the

way solve the problem by the

path

I called other stores in the chain not

there were bicycles they could not lend me

a bicycle

I called the organization said Luis

ramil participant in the triathlon of

valencia there are no bicycles and it reaches

valencia after 78 hours of

highway

look online what was the store of

that city for the car practically

on the street

thirty minutes were needed to close the

store and between screaming wants a

bicycle

I want a bicycle I want a

bicycle the two security guards

they stopped me but I think they did what

that he must teach

when you want to be guards

security if a madman enters the store

saying that he wants something, say yes and

then reduce it but I still want

a bicycle wants a bicycle

he wants a bicycle they took me to the

bicycle section and the dependent me

he calmed down but I told him what I had

last I needed a bicycle for

the reason why he was fighting

he told me that the only solution is that the

will buy mir among my possibilities

economic

drums and tell the pear trees

I wanted but my surprise was when I went to

pay the card did not work

we do not think to make the

dependents the security guards

I the clients who were already looking and

I kept repeating he has a bicycle

I want a bicycle

I have money, what I do not have is

available on the card because I’ve

I had to rush into today

several cats made it go down to the

director after repeating that she wanted

a bicycle told me the only way is

paying and suddenly someone from the

store said I paid him the bicycle

everyone looked at him a gentleman of 40

years with a girl grabbing al to the

hand we are speechless

I even got nervous I said look at me

I have money and tomorrow I will make a

transfer and he said no I pay the

bicycle I told him how this last

option

let’s go to the central house if it works

wonderful and if you do not use pay the

bicycle

the surprises that came to us all for

there we put the card and the card

it worked

it seemed that he had won the trial where

valencia to even ask his name for

to publish it but wanted to spend

unnoticed look at all this me

I confirm my philosophy that if we have

a challenge must be pursued

we have to fight what does not seem like anything

or nobody and on the other hand that life is

many good people and the last

defeat that I wanted to share with

you

this September 2 a man called me

who told me said I ‘m jose antonio

hairdresser of beds that rivers is to climb

with me the mulhacen and let me appeal

at 3,500 meters high

the truth that at first I think a

joke but as he told me it was for a

girl with cancer

I agreed we went up and I think it can be

I do not know if someone here from the town hall

from Granada but I think that I am the

only man who has appealed to 3,500

meters high

but that’s not the important thing is to look at your

located this mountaineer josé ramón

42 years

two weeks before they had

diagnosed a lung cancer with

metastasis and enel it in the liver

it cost life to go up when he arrived

up and we applaud the embrace

we cried with him and I had the privilege of

climb down

at his side and he told me one thing that is not

I will forget

In my life he told me Juan Luis, I can not

die you know how much iron

that I still have the challenge pizzo started

being a personal challenge and it has

become my way of life

regardless of the affectation that

is having to have raised

approximately about 100,000 euros

of the large number of people that you have

helped has become my way of

lifetime

I can not hide that it’s a way of

very demanding life

the preparation the trainings makes long

fit it my life work time

that took my children

the doubts that come to me many times is

look for funds but two years ago

my mother was diagnosed with cancer

for me it was a very hard blow together with

my father are the people who have most

supported in my life I spent a whole day

crying but the next day he had a

very clear thing that was going to be my

The main challenge was not going to leave him

minute

analysis tests visits to oncologists

the long sessions of chemo

since then my mother

it is a very important part of the challenge

bug I’ve been carrying every time I go

compete in my monkey

she instilled in me from small that everything

everything can be achieved in life and

also every time I go to a test I

I say mom, if I die

the entire areas to an ong

the kids could imagine where

you hear I have nothing but I love

listen to it but last year on 7

April had an ironman in Lisbon and

repeat the same play mom that if I

I’m dying I’m going to die if I die

ong

but the surprise is that when I was

riding the car came out screaming like

a possibility but what ong to what ong

I do not know what you’ll think of me if I’m crazy

if he tells me he’s going to save the children from

cancer to ela

but you’re going to die tube look at the title

of the conference is to help others

to help yourself for me it has

become the center of my life but

he did not hide it

is for me a selfish act that over

everything to help is myself

or could I count my problems on

sit quietly and reflect

about them but since I’ve been working

help others or problems are made

children faced them in a different way

they do not disappear they are still there but they are made

very very small and I also feel useful

loved and valued realized increases the

self-esteem and self- confidence to know

what are my limitations to look at that

act of selfishness not only materializes

in my recognition because my problem

is smaller

but now I have something inside of me

that I did not have before and are all those

people who helped those people

with names and surnames with which

live or even many is no longer

here with us but that I have been

made a lot stronger than before

start this adventure are part of me

as my introduction said I am

convinced that we should all

help others for them but about

all by ourselves

improving each our little one

corner of the world

many thanks

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