In my mid-20s I got everything I was always told I needed
To be a successful Westerner.
I have a job, a relationship, a house, a cat.
My life looks wonderful from the outside.
I have all the decorations of life,
But there is a reason to call it decorations.
Comfort kills ambition more than anything else in our lives.
You are the worst graphic designer in the world,
In addition to playing PlayStation 8 hours a day,
Plus two incredibly comfortable pillows.
But every morning, it was very hard to get up from sleep.
Accepted monotonously as an integral part of life,
A week of work for a weekend or vacation seems like a bargain,
But in fact, I think I’m getting lazy.
I have never thought that there is another way.
Sometimes we crave change, but we keep waiting for a reason, a signal: a car accident, a dying friend,
Sometimes you get laid off at work.
Or you can wake up on your 25th birthday
Then realize that your cat has a much better life than your life.
(Laughter)
This is Ward.
Imagine that life is a set of stairs
And there’s an amazing version of you waiting at the top.
It’s not easy to do things the first time,
But Richard Branson had his first private job.
Billy had to kick the first one.
Donald Trump needed to send the first tweet.
(Laughter)
Confidence and optimism are muscles
We have to exercise every day to grow up.
A thousand miles does not start with one step.
It begins with an idea.
I moved my first step.
Four and a half miles across Australia,
Breaking the Guinness record for the longest man-made trip in more than 1,000 kilometers.
The only reason I did it was because I decided to do so.
But it was not that easy.
We live in a world that teaches us and expects us
Almost the same thing from everyone.
It has always been very difficult to stand away from crowds
Without your retry being attempted.
“Why?”
“Impossible,” “You’re crazy,” “You’re irresponsible and selfish.”
“What about everything you worked for?”
It’s like attacking a group of angry parrots.
But often, they talk to themselves,
You do not have to take a tip if you do not ask for it.
The boldest thing we can do is acknowledge the fact that we are different from anyone else.
After a trip using the latch in (Australia), you are relaxed.
Without bright color, promise, fun and surprise, blisters, and hills
Every day 156 days in the road,
Life seemed very bleak,
Oh, very bleak!
It took me two years to go back to another adventure.
Two and a half months at Kayak, I loved her.
But then I was frustrated again.
How to get so into an adventure,
The only thing that brought me back to life?
Yet I have grief.
To try to overcome this, I made a project called Expedition 1000.
It was a simple idea, if not a bold one:
25 different trips
Each of which is at least 1000 miles in length,
Each has a particular character and a means of movement without a motor.
Before I finished two, I have 23,000 miles left to cut.
Easy.
But when you realize how your arguments are supposed to look
It is not really important that all pieces are not in place yet.
But what about the money?
It is not about what you earn, but what you do not spend.
Save a little money before a trip (Australia)
The website design for events has helped me for a while.
I learned how to cut my hair.
I lived in the sleeping bag for quite some time.
It has grown in guest rooms, sofas and city gardens
Anything that would reduce costs
The trip cost me less than £ 1,000.
I do not do research, nor do I plan the course I will take.
Often, if you know what you are going to face, you will probably give up.
Three months of rowing in the Mississippi River
It cost me less than if I lived in London for the same amount of time.
I did not train.
In fact, when my parents gave me glasses to swim on Christmas,
I jumped in the Missouri River, never before swam
More than 100 meters at a time.
I still remember the faces of the people on the first day.
The fact that I can not believe I can not swim.
But I learned.
Later, within 58 days and 1001 miles
I came out of the water in the St. Louis River,
I was a very good swimmer at the time.
Most often when you get rid of obstacles,
Life becomes much easier,
Fortunately, most of the obstacles are in our heads.
Man is the only organism on the planet capable of constantly developing itself
Only when he chooses to do something.
Every time we do something new, we grow.
So, would not it be tragic if we did not choose to look for what we could do?
To simplify things, let’s start with one of these steps
Divide it into 100 small steps
Or even 1000 steps.
We live in a difficult time.
Things were not so clear before
Millions and millions of people do not see things the way you see them.
It is really difficult to admit that.
But do we blame others for our problems? Just an excuse.
We are human beings, we should not be alike to move forward.
Things are not going this way.
The more we went into detail, the more we talked to the people, climbed up our walls, and discovered
Whenever we got to where we wanted, our positive impact was better
Adventure for me
The room is the incubator for self-reliance, and hesitation as well.
We are rushing through the cities, keeping our eyes open
From meetings to train stations to the house.
We need little of anyone to integrate less.
Strangers are just waiting friends.
They will act as parents during adventure,
When you are in an unfamiliar county.
I have not had a week in any of my trips
I only received a call from someone while they were in their homes
To remind me constantly
It is obvious that man is good and gentle.
I am puzzled because our world is often portrayed as a place full of fear and danger.
While the situation is quite different.
These days,
It seems that questioning is allowed only for children.
But I’m determined not to forget
The fun that I felt as a child, still available,
Despite the responsibilities and obstacles we feel
As we age.
In fact, every decision I make now is based on making me smile.
Is there anything better than laughter!
Cake for breakfast
Exercise Biting in (Memphis), wearing a pygmy costume?
Skateboarding by dogs for a day?
There is a time and place to wear suits, that is what I think.
(Laughter)
It’s easy to forget that we belong to the wild.
Strange to say that in this room.
We have not developed as fast as the infrastructure around us.
The long time we spend between the walls, the regulations, and the rules make us bored.
We should never make an important decision in a room.
Many of the mental health problems we face today occur because of
Lack of communication with nature.
Of course, because of lack of communication
In the era of replacing actual communication with social networking sites.
But there is a simple intrigue.
Let’s go out, just once a week.
Not to sidewalks or walking places,
But to the countryside, to the forest.
Night under the stars or under clouds If you are from (England)
Just match the reset pressure.
In June 2015, I decided to see if the Facebook audience was real people.
So I invited them to camping.
Nineteen real people appeared
Under the hour on Station Street (Liverpool),
We took the train for half an hour,
We got to know each other about camp fire,
We grew up on a hill.
The next morning, everyone went back to work at different times.
Amazing things began to happen
For the next week, we did the same thing again,
25 people converted to 27 the following week and then to hundreds during the summer.
Surrounded by positive,
These people went out and made more adventures.
They left their job they did not like.
They started their own business and charity work.
It was magical.
In each direction, there was someone who could be used in a skill.
If you want a medic or an expert firefighter, there was Steve or Andy.
If you want someone to explain in a TED conversation
Thank you, my loved ones!
At the end of the summer, we held the first (Yes Tefal).
It’s like a TED conference but in the field.
The effect was as follows:
I have traveled 100,000 miles on their own
Collecting three-quarters of a million for charitable work.
Now we have more than three and a half thousand members around the world,
It spreads quickly.
We can do a lot on our own, but with each other we form a great force.
I like taking familiar ideas and giving them a new identity.
We could not rent a major center in London.
So we bought a double-decker bus.
I’m about to finish talking now and I’m very excited about it.
It is a multi-functional gathering scheduled in the countryside
A work place, a library, a kitchen, a cinema, a fireplace, and even a set of hooks.
I think as a kind of back-end help
There was a huge image (Optimus Prime) riding a metal flag.
Everything seems a good story.
Whether you are in this room, or watching online
You are lucky enough to have an option.
Regardless of your background, past, and current status
We can do more.
We can do more.
We can choose to sit in the margin breathing only,
Or thinking that many of us did not meet their expectations.
We are a great positive army waiting for the explosion.
Hey guys, we need this now.
The only thing we really control is how to spend our time.
So let’s start now.
Do something you’ve talked about for a long time.
Talk to the stranger you will meet later and remember their names.
Look for your group and do not be one of those parrots.
The squeaks will never give a result.
We can dream, aspire, hope, and wish as much as we can,
But without doing anything new,
We will never be the people we hope to be.
If everything falls apart,
As you struggle to climb the next step, just start with a small order, then move
Choose to be worth remembering and say: “Yes, more.”
thank you.
(clap)
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