[Music]
Pam I wake up from the force of a
breaking wave hitting the boat the
entire boat is shaking from the force
I thought starts to lean I’m feeling
that the feeling can feel I can feel my
core it’s been into my arms I can feel
their hair rising my arms in my neck
we’re in the middle of Atlantic Ocean
and judging by the sound we’re in the
middle of a breaking wave there’s both
throw myself the other direction trying
to prevent the boat from flipping over
the boat is leaning 45 degrees I’m
scared I don’t want those to capsize now
the boat is now leaning 90 degrees were
practically on the side we will capsize
a couple of seconds later the boat
flattens out and I can hear the sound of
the way of aiding as the wave moves
along I take a deep breath then I
realize Eric is out there rowing I open
the hatch and try and see him but it’s
so dark I can’t see him then I realize
there’s the real reason I can’t see him
is because he’s no longer there a couple
of second goes by but it feels feels
like an eternity then I hear him
crawling back onto the boat he’s
complaining about this arm at that
moment he could have lost his arm and I
was still been happy a bit troubled but
still happy
so why were we there two years probably
that day I was woken up by my phone
ringing it was Eric he hit one simple
question
Stefan do you want to row across the
Atlantic Ocean with me yeah what could
go wrong sometimes they laugh do you
just have to have that mentality no
surely in English that would be let’s go
for it and they were stood where this
blank sheet of paper with nothing on it
except row across the Atlantic Ocean and
two years later they we were we’d set
out to row across the Atlantic Ocean in
theory it’s a simple task in just Rowan
eventually you’ll get on the other side
we started at the Canary Islands just
outside of Africa and the rule across
the Atlantic Ocean to Antigua it’s just
outside of North America it’s 4,800
kilometers it’s roughly the same
distance as from here in Stockholm to
Dubai and in between those those places
there’s nothing there’s no islands just
an empty ocean 5,000 meters deep and if
I would start this journey today the
25th of November I would reach my
participated in a race I was rowing with
my best friend Eric and there was 16
other boats starting but as soon as as
soon as you let go that jetty and row
out you roll on your own there’s no aid
and halfway across the nearest boat
would be approximately a week away and I
remember I was sitting there by the
start I was holding onto the jetty and I
feel I’m prepared I’m checking the
weather I’m checking your gear I’m
sending that last text message to pee
that mattered most me saying goodbye to
one world before I embrace a new world
and I feel I’m prepared for this I’ve
read books about this I’ve spoken to
people about this I I knew I know how to
do this it was just like when I started
University I read the books I knew it in
theory I knew that when I get my first
job I knew how to solve all the problems
that will occur but that’s theory you
can never prepare for your first real
job it’s like you can’t prepare how you
will feel when you face a storm in a
rowing boat and when you get your first
job and you have that real setback you
can’t prepare for that that’s just
something you have to learn and as I’m
sitting there I’m holding onto the jetty
I do feel I do know this I’ve practiced
for this I know what to do and then I
let go oh we’re off and then I realize I
have no clue what I’m doing now but you
don’t always have you just have to roll
with the punches the first thing that
happened though was expected seasickness
I was expecting to feel bad I was
expecting to throw up but not expecting
that I will be seasick for a whole week
I was not expecting I would throw up
once an hour for three days but it was
just accept the reality and roll my
shifts and trying to eat and drink as
much as possible making sure that my
body got some of the energy so I could
keep going on and I mean it had its
advantages
I know Lincoln needed to keep track of
time I knew that when I threw up once
almost half my shift was done without
you up the second time two hours had
gone by and it was time to rest so it’s
pretty nice actually but I learned one
thing that period is that I won’t give
up just because it’s hard I won’t give
up because I’m in pain I won’t give up
because I’m tired I want to give up if I
choose to give up and if I choose never
to give up then eventually I will reach
my goal and it’s so important when
you’re in those situations regardless if
it’s wrong cross the Atlantic or if it’s
work you have to remember yourself while
you’re doing it why were we there in the
first place yes otherwise it’s so hard
to put in that extra effort if you’re at
work and you have to put in that extra
effort because you’re facing headwinds
then you have to remind yourself why am
i doing it and it’s the same thing when
you’re out in the Atlantic Ocean
you would have headwinds you’ll have big
waves during you to decide but even on
the Commerce Day the greatness of the
Atlantic Ocean will frighten you
and I didn’t know how I would react to
that it’s like comparing a book to a
film if I read a book about about Jim
about sinking in the darkness and I
don’t get the feeling of it my mind does
not want to frighten me more than I can
handle
but when I see a film of the same thing
when I see when I see the darkness when
I see the big waves when I see the
expression of panic in people’s faces
then that brings a reality to me that I
might not want to see might not want to
feel and it’s the same thing when I was
out there I didn’t know how I would
react to the loneliness being out there
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean all
alone but fortunately for both me and
Eric we like the notion of being alone
there but we were afraid we were very
often afraid but it’s okay you can’t be
brave without fear I mean that’s why we
were there to test our limits and you’re
not brave because you’re doing something
dangerous if you jump out of an airplane
without a parachute you’re not brave if
you’re not afraid of it I would say that
you’re a lunatic and I mean me and Eric
yes we were afraid but where we lunatics
thinking we could tame the ocean the
ocean is not your friend no where is it
your enemy the ocean
is powerful and the power of the ocean
cannot be tamed and if you think so
you’re wrong me and Eric we just gotten
to the point where we start to feel
comfortable we started to feel that we
know this we know how to handle the ways
we started to relax
that’s when it always happens so he
looks at me and says okay there’s a big
wave coming so I hold on and I can’t see
the way approaching is I’m out there
resting now I can feel it coming in and
we I can feel the boat lifting up and
we’re surfing down the wave and it’s so
cool and then the ocean flattens out and
we keep chatting on and then Eric again
is like okay big wave coming up okay I’m
holdin on I’m holdin on and then I can
see it I will never forget his facial
expressions he’s high so big just saying
big wave
okay oh I’m holding on that’s right and
I braced myself and then I feel it and
it’s like but this time more like
falling than surfing down the way okay
and I hear the sound it’s a breaking
wave and I look to the side oh it’s huge
second later the boaters turned sideways
against the web and instantly the boat
flips over
we thrown out and just I remember time
just stood still as I’m in the air and I
just you know the feeling when you’re in
there and just way to land and feel the
pain I was what I was waiting for but
then I land and it’s soft and it’s clear
under the water and the sound of the
wave is so much lower under the surface
and then I come up and I see okay
there’s Eric he seems okay there’s the
boat it’s upside down but okay we swim
there and then we you know fix the boat
up we climb aboard and I look at the
he’s got the biggest smile I got the
biggest fight over like that was the
coolest thing I’ve ever done in my life
they’re like maybe maybe we’re all
lunatics after all okay and then we
flipped over and we were okay and then I
went into that little cabin then I saw
it we had forgotten to close one of the
events so water has come into the cabin
and destroyed our water making the water
makers it’s the heart of the boat it
used a solar panel to drive a little
little engine to to produce drinkable
water but from that day on we will we
had to hand pump water in order to
survive and that heaters worked really
hard that was unexpected and we did not
want that to happen but just because you
don’t want something to happen doesn’t
mean it will not happen you shouldn’t go
around worrying about it but you must
accept the fact that it can happen and
at that point I was just glad it didn’t
happen to you tonight because at night
it can get dark when I say dog I mean
really dark nights when when you have
the moon up and the stars are shining
and so beautiful beyond my imagination
but the nights when when the moon is on
the other side of the earth and it’s
clouded so dark you can’t even see your
hand in front of you and you can’t you
can’t know when the next wave will hit
you we spoken to people about this we’ve
read the books and heard about the
dangers of the big waves on the ocean
during the night and how to handle it
but you don’t know how he would react
and I can tell you this I was scared I
was really scared but it’s okay one of
those diets any quakes me up and said
Steffen we have a problem the steering
is not working anymore okay
that’s not true okay so I’m only step 10
minutes and when you spend all day
alternating between pumping water and
rowing and those three times a night
each one half to two hours is don’t rest
yet and it’s so good to get that rest so
I knew that okay I need to fix the
steering
now otherwise our journey would end and
I also wanted to go back to sleep so
after a while I did I did sort it out
and I was so glad I was so glad to be
able to go to sleep and I didn’t have to
chat with Eric anymore I was nice as
well then Eric’s looks at me and says
Stefan I’m so sorry to tell you this but
it’s your turn to roll and those moments
in life when you just feel like you
wanna cry find his idea laugh it’s much
better then Eric bless his heart said
though Stefan I can actually draw one
thirty minutes extra for you to get some
rest but in life in adventure and
everything I do I try and do it in the
same way I always think about the team I
had to myself and do everything with a
smile and I was already up it’s better
to just laugh at and say okay now accept
my faith and start drawing and just a
couple of days after that the the water
degree started pumping sorta tasting
more and more of salt up until the point
where we could no longer drink it so
okay I took the water pump apart twice I
changed all the packings that did not
look perfect I took up our satellite
phone and call the supplier explained
the problem okay this has happened we
have this problem
he went quiet and he said guys you’re so
unlucky I’ve never heard about this
before oh really
thank you that’s what I wanted her from
that day on we didn’t have any more
water the only water we had was to 150
liters of ballast water and we needed to
draw we need we knew we needed a row row
as fast as possible to get the cross
before our water supplies ended but
eventually we did get to the end it was
hard it was harder than I imagined and
after that I’ve learned better how to
handle a unexpected and in life in
journey and business whatever I do it’s
almost the same thing trying you know
visualize okay this is where I want to
go this is my goal and this is where I
am now maybe sometimes over here though
then I try and okay how do I get from
here to there that’s how I make my plan
but something I have learned is the
importance of daring to start sometimes
you just have to jump out the window and
grow wings on the way down and
regardless if it’s starting your new
business or running your first marathon
or your first 5k race you have to start
today tomorrow it will be too late and
don’t be afraid to fail because I can
tell you there’s a 100% chance that you
will not be successful if you don’t even
try and it’s okay to fail it’s just
never okay to give up on yourself and
sometimes you will fail and if you never
fail then you’re just setting your goals
too low
but if you always have that goal in
focus okay this is what I want to do and
you never let go of that then you accept
that things will not go according to
your plan and you accept that okay
having a good plan will help you to get
where you want to go good preparation
will be so important for you to succeed
but the biggest of all advantage of
having a good plan
and good preparations is not that you
will know everything that will happen
because you want the most important is
that it will help you to get back on
track when the unexpected happens
because it will so just accept that
things will not go according to your
plan but have the focus on your goal and
eventually you will succeed and my
challenge for you all out there is that
today you just go home you start a
business or you sign up for that race
have you always thought about and you
just find me up and just send me a short
text saying I signed up thank you [Applause]
Pam I wake up from the force of a
breaking wave hitting the boat the
entire boat is shaking from the force
I thought starts to lean I’m feeling
that the feeling can feel I can feel my
core it’s been into my arms I can feel
their hair rising my arms in my neck
we’re in the middle of Atlantic Ocean
and judging by the sound we’re in the
middle of a breaking wave there’s both
throw myself the other direction trying
to prevent the boat from flipping over
the boat is leaning 45 degrees I’m
scared I don’t want those to capsize now
the boat is now leaning 90 degrees were
practically on the side we will capsize
a couple of seconds later the boat
flattens out and I can hear the sound of
the way of aiding as the wave moves
along I take a deep breath then I
realize Eric is out there rowing I open
the hatch and try and see him but it’s
so dark I can’t see him then I realize
there’s the real reason I can’t see him
is because he’s no longer there a couple
of second goes by but it feels feels
like an eternity then I hear him
crawling back onto the boat he’s
complaining about this arm at that
moment he could have lost his arm and I
was still been happy a bit troubled but
still happy
so why were we there two years probably
that day I was woken up by my phone
ringing it was Eric he hit one simple
question
Stefan do you want to row across the
Atlantic Ocean with me yeah what could
go wrong sometimes they laugh do you
just have to have that mentality no
surely in English that would be let’s go
for it and they were stood where this
blank sheet of paper with nothing on it
except row across the Atlantic Ocean and
two years later they we were we’d set
out to row across the Atlantic Ocean in
theory it’s a simple task in just Rowan
eventually you’ll get on the other side
we started at the Canary Islands just
outside of Africa and the rule across
the Atlantic Ocean to Antigua it’s just
outside of North America it’s 4,800
kilometers it’s roughly the same
distance as from here in Stockholm to
Dubai and in between those those places
there’s nothing there’s no islands just
an empty ocean 5,000 meters deep and if
I would start this journey today the
25th of November I would reach my
participated in a race I was rowing with
my best friend Eric and there was 16
other boats starting but as soon as as
soon as you let go that jetty and row
out you roll on your own there’s no aid
and halfway across the nearest boat
would be approximately a week away and I
remember I was sitting there by the
start I was holding onto the jetty and I
feel I’m prepared I’m checking the
weather I’m checking your gear I’m
sending that last text message to pee
that mattered most me saying goodbye to
one world before I embrace a new world
and I feel I’m prepared for this I’ve
read books about this I’ve spoken to
people about this I I knew I know how to
do this it was just like when I started
University I read the books I knew it in
theory I knew that when I get my first
job I knew how to solve all the problems
that will occur but that’s theory you
can never prepare for your first real
job it’s like you can’t prepare how you
will feel when you face a storm in a
rowing boat and when you get your first
job and you have that real setback you
can’t prepare for that that’s just
something you have to learn and as I’m
sitting there I’m holding onto the jetty
I do feel I do know this I’ve practiced
for this I know what to do and then I
let go oh we’re off and then I realize I
have no clue what I’m doing now but you
don’t always have you just have to roll
with the punches the first thing that
happened though was expected seasickness
I was expecting to feel bad I was
expecting to throw up but not expecting
that I will be seasick for a whole week
I was not expecting I would throw up
once an hour for three days but it was
just accept the reality and roll my
shifts and trying to eat and drink as
much as possible making sure that my
body got some of the energy so I could
keep going on and I mean it had its
advantages
I know Lincoln needed to keep track of
time I knew that when I threw up once
almost half my shift was done without
you up the second time two hours had
gone by and it was time to rest so it’s
pretty nice actually but I learned one
thing that period is that I won’t give
up just because it’s hard I won’t give
up because I’m in pain I won’t give up
because I’m tired I want to give up if I
choose to give up and if I choose never
to give up then eventually I will reach
my goal and it’s so important when
you’re in those situations regardless if
it’s wrong cross the Atlantic or if it’s
work you have to remember yourself while
you’re doing it why were we there in the
first place yes otherwise it’s so hard
to put in that extra effort if you’re at
work and you have to put in that extra
effort because you’re facing headwinds
then you have to remind yourself why am
i doing it and it’s the same thing when
you’re out in the Atlantic Ocean
you would have headwinds you’ll have big
waves during you to decide but even on
the Commerce Day the greatness of the
Atlantic Ocean will frighten you
and I didn’t know how I would react to
that it’s like comparing a book to a
film if I read a book about about Jim
about sinking in the darkness and I
don’t get the feeling of it my mind does
not want to frighten me more than I can
handle
but when I see a film of the same thing
when I see when I see the darkness when
I see the big waves when I see the
expression of panic in people’s faces
then that brings a reality to me that I
might not want to see might not want to
feel and it’s the same thing when I was
out there I didn’t know how I would
react to the loneliness being out there
in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean all
alone but fortunately for both me and
Eric we like the notion of being alone
there but we were afraid we were very
often afraid but it’s okay you can’t be
brave without fear I mean that’s why we
were there to test our limits and you’re
not brave because you’re doing something
dangerous if you jump out of an airplane
without a parachute you’re not brave if
you’re not afraid of it I would say that
you’re a lunatic and I mean me and Eric
yes we were afraid but where we lunatics
thinking we could tame the ocean the
ocean is not your friend no where is it
your enemy the ocean
is powerful and the power of the ocean
cannot be tamed and if you think so
you’re wrong me and Eric we just gotten
to the point where we start to feel
comfortable we started to feel that we
know this we know how to handle the ways
we started to relax
that’s when it always happens so he
looks at me and says okay there’s a big
wave coming so I hold on and I can’t see
the way approaching is I’m out there
resting now I can feel it coming in and
we I can feel the boat lifting up and
we’re surfing down the wave and it’s so
cool and then the ocean flattens out and
we keep chatting on and then Eric again
is like okay big wave coming up okay I’m
holdin on I’m holdin on and then I can
see it I will never forget his facial
expressions he’s high so big just saying
big wave
okay oh I’m holding on that’s right and
I braced myself and then I feel it and
it’s like but this time more like
falling than surfing down the way okay
and I hear the sound it’s a breaking
wave and I look to the side oh it’s huge
second later the boaters turned sideways
against the web and instantly the boat
flips over
we thrown out and just I remember time
just stood still as I’m in the air and I
just you know the feeling when you’re in
there and just way to land and feel the
pain I was what I was waiting for but
then I land and it’s soft and it’s clear
under the water and the sound of the
wave is so much lower under the surface
and then I come up and I see okay
there’s Eric he seems okay there’s the
boat it’s upside down but okay we swim
there and then we you know fix the boat
up we climb aboard and I look at the
he’s got the biggest smile I got the
biggest fight over like that was the
coolest thing I’ve ever done in my life
they’re like maybe maybe we’re all
lunatics after all okay and then we
flipped over and we were okay and then I
went into that little cabin then I saw
it we had forgotten to close one of the
events so water has come into the cabin
and destroyed our water making the water
makers it’s the heart of the boat it
used a solar panel to drive a little
little engine to to produce drinkable
water but from that day on we will we
had to hand pump water in order to
survive and that heaters worked really
hard that was unexpected and we did not
want that to happen but just because you
don’t want something to happen doesn’t
mean it will not happen you shouldn’t go
around worrying about it but you must
accept the fact that it can happen and
at that point I was just glad it didn’t
happen to you tonight because at night
it can get dark when I say dog I mean
really dark nights when when you have
the moon up and the stars are shining
and so beautiful beyond my imagination
but the nights when when the moon is on
the other side of the earth and it’s
clouded so dark you can’t even see your
hand in front of you and you can’t you
can’t know when the next wave will hit
you we spoken to people about this we’ve
read the books and heard about the
dangers of the big waves on the ocean
during the night and how to handle it
but you don’t know how he would react
and I can tell you this I was scared I
was really scared but it’s okay one of
those diets any quakes me up and said
Steffen we have a problem the steering
is not working anymore okay
that’s not true okay so I’m only step 10
minutes and when you spend all day
alternating between pumping water and
rowing and those three times a night
each one half to two hours is don’t rest
yet and it’s so good to get that rest so
I knew that okay I need to fix the
steering
now otherwise our journey would end and
I also wanted to go back to sleep so
after a while I did I did sort it out
and I was so glad I was so glad to be
able to go to sleep and I didn’t have to
chat with Eric anymore I was nice as
well then Eric’s looks at me and says
Stefan I’m so sorry to tell you this but
it’s your turn to roll and those moments
in life when you just feel like you
wanna cry find his idea laugh it’s much
better then Eric bless his heart said
though Stefan I can actually draw one
thirty minutes extra for you to get some
rest but in life in adventure and
everything I do I try and do it in the
same way I always think about the team I
had to myself and do everything with a
smile and I was already up it’s better
to just laugh at and say okay now accept
my faith and start drawing and just a
couple of days after that the the water
degree started pumping sorta tasting
more and more of salt up until the point
where we could no longer drink it so
okay I took the water pump apart twice I
changed all the packings that did not
look perfect I took up our satellite
phone and call the supplier explained
the problem okay this has happened we
have this problem
he went quiet and he said guys you’re so
unlucky I’ve never heard about this
before oh really
thank you that’s what I wanted her from
that day on we didn’t have any more
water the only water we had was to 150
liters of ballast water and we needed to
draw we need we knew we needed a row row
as fast as possible to get the cross
before our water supplies ended but
eventually we did get to the end it was
hard it was harder than I imagined and
after that I’ve learned better how to
handle a unexpected and in life in
journey and business whatever I do it’s
almost the same thing trying you know
visualize okay this is where I want to
go this is my goal and this is where I
am now maybe sometimes over here though
then I try and okay how do I get from
here to there that’s how I make my plan
but something I have learned is the
importance of daring to start sometimes
you just have to jump out the window and
grow wings on the way down and
regardless if it’s starting your new
business or running your first marathon
or your first 5k race you have to start
today tomorrow it will be too late and
don’t be afraid to fail because I can
tell you there’s a 100% chance that you
will not be successful if you don’t even
try and it’s okay to fail it’s just
never okay to give up on yourself and
sometimes you will fail and if you never
fail then you’re just setting your goals
too low
but if you always have that goal in
focus okay this is what I want to do and
you never let go of that then you accept
that things will not go according to
your plan and you accept that okay
having a good plan will help you to get
where you want to go good preparation
will be so important for you to succeed
but the biggest of all advantage of
having a good plan
and good preparations is not that you
will know everything that will happen
because you want the most important is
that it will help you to get back on
track when the unexpected happens
because it will so just accept that
things will not go according to your
plan but have the focus on your goal and
eventually you will succeed and my
challenge for you all out there is that
today you just go home you start a
business or you sign up for that race
have you always thought about and you
just find me up and just send me a short
text saying I signed up thank you [Applause]
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