then let’s start with a little anecdote
a staff that I have reported there
I report more in which of the books but that
It is very important in the history of which
we’re talking about
I was 29 years old working in the company
I did a stretch as explained
even as a freelancer who was the
cute name that in the eighties
gave precarious because in the 80s there
we all gave quite a tone and then
I had become employed then later
some used the most sophisticated
framework is even at 29 years are
became a manager I had set myself to
get there at 30 so I remember the day
when coming back from the room
of the CEO in his hand
This letter I crossed the corridor
I entered my room and I am
sitting down and I reread this letter of
whose content he naturally knew
who appointed me as a manager
I remember precise of the feeling that
try that it was not one
unique feeling is a sensation
half-breed on one side was obviously
satisfied is my father had done
a similar company path then
somehow I reflected in his
career and black very satisfied with
to have succeeded in the intent that I was
prefixed but of course not to find me
in a state of perfect harmony
of perfect well-being he suffered me
suspicious I should have like everyone
those that are to say fully in the
place where they must be and do that
that feels like I should do
please me with trying a
great pleasure and the instant after fix
again a goal man so do
the ambitious I was an ambitious I was
one who wanted to grow wanted to learn
he wanted to make his way
instead I felt a sensation
very strong very clear that you berlin them
they managed to decode but then
over time I understood to be
the certainty that I would not do that
all life, that is, in the moment in which
I had to accept the bar again
I thought that sport was not one
what I would have done all the time
this feeling is said so
lignified rooted in my mind
in my heart I continued for the
I work very hard with a lot of work
things have gone well
I was lucky I did good things
it was a period when I was working in the
world of communication and things
they were good, I was good
I was very busy too
lucky I had good masters though
things have remained in a sense
hanging there and that feeling is
stayed inside of me
and there is another anecdote that in some
way closes the circle between two
feelings that have been recalled between
they have determined an action is
been many years later I was on the siding
Rome’s ring had lived at the time
it was half past seven in the morning
we were already all closed inside theirs
machine each one those mobile phones
turned on it was very hot it was 4
July for curious coincidence
and that day I told myself it was not so
I can not live all my life like that
I can go out when everyone goes out not
I can come back when everyone returns not
I can do the things that everyone does not
I want to live according to patterns that are
been set by someone else a who
we are saying the result of a standard
which has established itself as the priority
the winning that homologation
that being all in the same
condition seemed to me
unbearable and then I went out
from the highway as soon as I could from the
ring road which is a kind of
highway and I remember I tried for
the streets of a place I did not know
because it was an area of Rome
where I could never have looked for a bar
that he had a pergola possibly
being able to stand out in the shade taken one
coffee and I sat at the table with
the idea of studying a solution that does not
I though I knew how to do and it took
all I knew was to do just that
I did not have a plan b I did not
I had a solution I had not thought of
other and I remember that day I am
I took a piece of paper from a pen
I’m going to think or I put myself to
analyze all the managers
present know what that stuff is for
which you make a series of columns of minds
what you have what you do not have that
that you need what you should have
to do what you’d like to do and do it
column of things I needed was
very rich those I had were few
they were good for doing what I had
always done but not beyond
and from that moment I started working
I started working or a project that
it was a project of liberation
let’s say so of authenticity audit
authentication
I was born to write and surf
each of us was born to do something
and many people write to me you are
lucky because you know how to navigate, you know
You can write as if I were born with
rudder in hand with pen in hand but
in short, of course, as you can
imagine it’s not like that I can not do
anything
this obviously is not true jack
London said something very beautiful
he wrote that if each of us like
a ball placed on a staggered plane
if we leave you that ball does
a trajectory that if you do not break them
the soul along the way is certain
trajectories he called this the line
of lower resistance ie that which
we would do well
feeling good while doing it
if we could do it my line of
less resistance in this I have been
lucky I was clear enough that is
me since I was a child
I knew that I felt because then I knew
an issue that comes with the
awareness but I felt that I had to
writing surfing was mine
line of less resistance in that
moment is fulfilled in my life I have
very important fact from knowing that
what was the free from that it’s a thing
very widespread, everyone knows what he wants
say free from the capice
free from the rhythms the book from the le
responsibilities from the responsibility of the
heavy heart by the mortgage
compulsory relationships not chosen by theme
a director of staff who for
definition a crazy as we know if you
he put a desk like next to him
your colleague from that awareness
very widespread I acquired in that
moment another awareness that is
that of what I had to become
free which is part of the other half
but of the matter
most people when they talk
of freedom is clear what it means
free from but not what he would like
he should feel that he would like to be
free I left work from
so I changed my life I have it
changed by doing a project though
around this being a writer
having always been and being then
become more professional
more methodological a project that has a
what to do with another way to live
because I discovered after so many fears since
first example we made of 29
years to when I changed my life there
12 have passed because I had to
win all the fears of the case is
I had to ask myself all the questions and find
an original answer at the time of
these things were not talked about was
2008 when I changed my life the
January 2008 for curious coincidence
for September the Lehman crisis
brothers tried me in spite of each
any doubt that I had done well
from that moment on the project yes
It is enriched and has become something
that I could have the courage
finally to try to live I was
terrified of course not to have
salary are also the son of one
Genoese lineage so the matter is
also quite serious and above all
I was terrified of interrupting one
career had arrived in a good one
location for me by my means and
I knew that from the age of 40 I would have
I could gather all that
I had sown the job that is called
public relations takes a lot
to build these relationships though
afterwards they produce their fruits I did
public relations communication
etc
everything that would come after me
I would not have lived it then I was
losing the fear of losing what
you have
I realized with time it was the
major brake because it was not there
awareness of everything I would not have
had if I had not tried this it is
a very important thing
the years that followed were
happier than my life naturally
how easy to imagine why I am
lived doing exactly what for which
I was born I lived trying to
be what I knew I could
being and what I knew I had to do
to attempt
of course to do this the project
is due particularly good in a series
of very concrete things
I have spent from January 2008 to today
74 thousand euros overall that lived with
8,500 euros per year
but you can do a lot more than the average
is affected by the first years I was
little used to a house where I live one
stone house a barn of the end of the
six hundred who are also cool if you say so
a girl who, however, was restructured
everything from me this part less pussy in
which is better does not involve the
girl who had never made a roof of
a stone wooden house and then the
wooden roof nobody naturally well
me too
which has tragically seen the first one
winter when I had 36 waterways in the
roof
I slept with the whole wax less
bad that they have equipped with the drop
on the shoulder that came down
I had forgotten to put the card
tarred thinking that the slope
enough is only one mistake I made
many
I absolutely understood however that one
person who makes the life that everyone does
us every day so complicated at all
the resources to confront the
problems and try to solve them in
very creative way once in a manner
even a little bankrupt but anyway
very satisfactory I discovered that yes
it may have produced most of the
things we need
I have myself killed rather than
buy something this the fact of
being of Genoese origin helps but ma
but it is not enough we also need a little bit
invent things right here every thing
that I need to use or to
re-use I consider a kind of
inner death when a
home appliance I can not fix it
I have to change it though in all this
there is a great possibility it is
absolutely possible to live
otherwise absolutely possible
indeed it is necessary to get out of the
placing of thought out of the
homologation of lifestyles because
the first we heard one thing first
very interesting of an activist for i
human rights
that’s really a question
important not to help people ad
be healthier to live more
etc. but there is something that I believe
deeply
that comes before that one
the heroes do what they do
special people, many of us could
do it certainly but I’m sure it is
something really beyond the bar for
many of us but there is one thing instead
we can all do and is that of
contribute to society by trying to
live authentically trying to
really be what you were born for
to stop pretending to do
trades that do not belong to you
they are often harmful to the
society
stopping having 29 degrees at home
mine is only heated with wood
that I split burn if you leave the
cigarettes on the sofa at the end of October
start smoking again in March because
clearly you do not get away from the
fireplace, however, how to say this
high point contributes to the killing
of costs
but now the lines start now
that can really be done a lot
what’s this
a lot of things, very, very, very much
simple much within our reach that
they make our life terribly
adventurous without then going to
see into the wild c motions I love for
what we see we can live it
we also without those excesses and
especially started to really do
what I felt I wanted to do with
I can do that to write surfing I can
to help society with that
that I write and my research
of authenticity to determine something
of value because I have around for whom
he can read something interesting
for those who can
find a solution through a
example a testimony this is
certainly something that must be done
certainly when what we do if
writing it on a piece of paper is too much
different the signs are too different from the
signs we’ve got on maybe that
that we are writing is not literature
but it’s just fiction and this is one thing
that we should remember it takes one
certain consistency and a certain identity
between what we do and what we do
let’s say that often there is not
[Applause]
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