Bottom Lines

I just came back from a speech of  Mr. Robert Swan, the first man to reach both North and South poles , a very inspirational speaker.

Circumstances brought me to this speech. Some bottom lines that Swan had were :

-  what keeps you going , what keeps you motivated is  feeling relevant in your reality;

- you have to choose people that can challenge you in your team , because if you choose your best friends , you will have fun and quit fast ;

- once you are engaged in such a big experience/expedition , if you don't stop and look at you from outside and at the others you won't enjoy the experience and it will be a regret ;

- in a team , you need to have patience , to listen and accept to be challenged.

It was a good speech, not the best I heard so far , but good. I learned from it and in the end this was one of it's goals , to raise awareness. My question for him was : If you said that what keeps you motivated is being relevant in your reality , do you feel relevant in this reality now, after such an experience ,that sometimes strikes you in good way , sometimes in bad way. His answer was a commercial one. He said that he feels relevant because I was there at his speech to listen and if out of a full room , at least 5 people heard him , that makes him relevant. I told him that I got at his speech because of external factors , not because I heard about him before. 

Yes , I heard his point , even if he wrapped his story in another story  and I am taking his story out , which was one of his goal , but what brought me there , was just faith. 

It was a nice story , that didn't need to be wrapped in another story to be heard, honesty sometimes in more important and more impact full than PR. What I have observed was that it was very hard for him to use "we"instead of Ï'. It all started from his dream , but he was not the only one that reached both North and South poles , it was a team that did that. 

I am a trainer , I am keeping trainings  because I am passionate about education , because I want to raise awareness of how education can make a difference in this world and to this world , I want to raise awareness and people to act. I don't make a PR thing out of my passion and goal in life. I f I would dedicate my life to something would be education , but I would not use a story behind a story to reach my goals. 

I wouldn't devote my life to a dream , and after giving 20 years to make the dream come true, put PR and Marketing in front of honesty , just to wrap my story in another story and put it out there , without being able even to not contradict myself. 

I am wondering now if the people that do achieve their dreams with a team, their dream but with a team, forget about that and in the end see it as THEIR dream , not an impact on the world, not an awareness raised. 

Even Neil Armstrong , the first person that walked on the moon , didn't get there by himself. On that mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott.I am thinking now if when Neil told his story , used "we' or "I". To make my point , I am questioning:  if we make everything about us , in a simple "I ", when is about "us ", where is the humanity in this ?

I am aware that through a training I can't change a life , but I can raise awareness and this is what keeps me relevant in my reality , this is what keeps me going , keeps me motivated. I don't need to wrap-up my story in a training with another story , to be heard. Who wants to listen will hear me. 

And it's never about my dream and passion , it's about who I do it for , not why I do it for. The "Why" - keeps me going , for who and with who keeps humanity out there. 

Kind regards, 
                     Nico