Bringing Amazon Survival Skills to Business | Yossi Ghinsberg — Transcript

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1. 0:03[Music]
2. 0:07Since I've known myself, I've been a
3. 0:10dreamer. I wanted to be an explorer. I
4. 0:12wanted to go into the depths of the
5. 0:14uncharted. I wanted to meet tribal
6. 0:17peoples that never saw culture before. I
7. 0:19wanted to marry the daughter of the
8. 0:20chief and find gold in the river. That
9. 0:23was the reason why I came to South
10. 0:24America.
11. 0:31I would say in short there's two types
12. 0:32of dreamer. People that dream as
13. 0:35escapism and dreamers that by dreaming
14. 0:39creating the substance of life itself.
15. 0:41It's easier to be the first type of
16. 0:43dreamer because the second type of a
17. 0:46dreamer is taking a huge risk. Life
18. 0:50create resistance to whatever you do.
19. 0:53Life gives you enough excuses to give up
20. 0:56on your dream.
21. 0:57Be careful from this world. But there's
22. 0:59always
23. 1:01but. Never succumb to the
24. 1:07but. We cannot escape from
25. 1:12adversity. Adversity is not a choice in
26. 1:14life. But the victim is a
27. 1:17choice. Look, professional people know
28. 1:19what's
29. 1:20impossible. It's impossible. Naive
30. 1:24people don't know what's impossible.
31. 1:28It's not
32. 1:29impossible. Population doesn't grow
33. 1:31exponentially. Population dances with
34. 1:34the conditions around. It responds to
35. 1:36the environment. First of all, secondly,
36. 1:39resources are not finite. If anything,
37. 1:40things are infinite. Thirdly, in the
38. 1:43equation, something is lacking. What is
39. 1:45lacking is innovation.
40. 1:54We rather believe in some conspiracy
41. 1:56theory because it makes somebody else
42. 1:58responsible. So we can stick to the
43. 2:00victim situation. We can do something
44. 2:03about it always. And we never have to be
45. 2:06victims because
46. 2:07responsibility is being able to respond.