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Sortir de sa zone de confort nécessite parfois de l’audace | Doris Wetzel | TEDxUTCompiègne


good evening my name is dory
I’m 41 years old
I am a former high level athlete
then I converted to big
distribution 15 years ago and I have a
dream for a few years that is of
to cross the Atlantic in kitesurf
so today I will explain to you
why do we go from the big
distribution a crossing of
atlantic 15 years ago so I’m
am settled on the road of my life
excuse me fifteen years ago I got
installed on the road of life that you
saw quite comfortable course we see
where we are going we can go at full speed
without thinking too much we are in the
comfort and all of a sudden in 2012 I
die an obstacle I’m doing a burn out
as it must be very tired I lose all
my landmarks one morning I wake up I
did not know where I was, I went
tidy on the road my life on the bottom
side
I said good, it’s not normal
but I did not ask myself
question I told myself go doris 1
resume his habits
back on the road you know if
well that’s what I did I was advancing
I was familiar with it
speed I would have accelerated I was
impatient I was not doing too much
pose and that was to happen happened I
falls in the ditch that I have not seen
come
so two years later I get pregnant
the brush stops abruptly and I
found in a situation less
difficult to live
there I told myself feed why you
but I did not linger too much
I’m going to have to go back to his
habits quickly and you know within
we have three characters
we have reason we have the heart and we have
the body and its three characters
make the decisions a little bit to
your place and there the reason tells me
medori is recovering the road was tired
you know her beforehand what I was doing
but the reason she was a little bit
tired a little bit to eat because
it’s taken two shots a little hard
so and left room for the heart and the
heart told me doris why do not you do
not something that makes you happy and
what do you really want and there I
put myself to think I thought
aduriz it would be nice if you cross
the Atlantic in kitesurf
really the reason finally she has
quickly recovered which I found myself
on this road
you know her too well this
it’s simple enough easy to have them
teeth without in his comfort zone in
advance quietly without much
reflect
and then one day I find myself in the
office with my boss and I understand
that I had no place at all
position that I held nor in
the company neither in sectors
of activity in which I evolved and there
in front of me is to draw a wall and there I
could not move forward
so I had to take a
decision I had to go left
right because I could not
go back
I had to find what
direction take and yeah I did not know
not where to go
I did not know where to go
because I did not know what I
wanted to do ah I did not know what
I wanted to do the heart he did not have
plant a little seed in my head
a little idea that I did not do
grow because the reason and me
stuffed with bresse in your comfort zone
briest you do not want to cross
the Atlantic in kitesurf
and if it was that it was that the la
direction to take
so I changed my route and at the roof
damman surprisingly but I did not feel
joy of lightness and
and of ease you will understand
Why
because the road that my heart has
chosen for me it was here and there
it was over with comfort with the
ease with the habit
there you had to evaluate each step and
every step and is precarious I did not know
where this road led me
in the month of October of last year and
granny through in the elite and ranned
excuse me so I have to cross the
mediterranean kitesurfing in october
last with a departure from france port
camargue to arrive eight days later
in Tunisia so it was in a straight line
850 km ago boat that accompanied me
and on this boat I was able to rest
there were difficulties of course
this adventure is it’s a
exploration it’s going to the unknown
nobody has ever done it before
so when I left I got very
little wind I was very very afraid of
not be able to leave and the first
kilometers I have the effects will add
that I could not even get on
my board then there was so fear
from the unknown and you see it well
on my face
this face I had almost all over the
crossing I had damn we scared
still
I was afraid not to succeed in weight
I was afraid of the unknown a strong
concentration and my adrenaline
he was so high that I was not
need to take coffee or tea tea
during the whole crossing
on the situations of very few in front of
found a lot of wind so at
departure we put between 7 and 10 knots
and then it rises between 30 and 59
so what you see there was a
day when a line breaks with 40 knots
of wind with thirty 30 meters as long as
three meters of waves
so we will recover in the small
boat you see there and then he
there were moments of magic
obviously on a crossing as
to navigate in the middle of the
Mediterranean without voice without seeing the
earth it’s just it’s just
extraordinary
then there is this situation then the
team work obviously I
can do cross the Mediterranean
all alone there is a whole job the team
behind and they pulled out all
the days to put me in the water for me
recover
and to get me through this
Mediterranean and the surpassing of oneself
because that was the last day on
day of arrival and at the beginning it was the
afraid of not being able to leave there it was
of the fear of not arriving then
then see the earth be in the bay
from bizerte
the arrival was close then the arrival
in the in the harbor with the reception
extraordinary Tunisians and hull
sailing school who welcomed me and
the bizertins who was on the platform there
it was joy and happiness came
now
why did I have to wait to take
this wall before throwing me
we could say good idea I have them
had before it is strange that it is necessary
take a hammer blow on the head
for this before you start
well it was fear it was fear
to get out of something that was
familiar who was known to go out of his
comfort zone to get into a
area that could be defined zones of
panic because we have no benchmark to
my father he was my mother’s engineer
was doctor of the two engineer brothers
at home the landmarks had not been
the adventured the feat went through
Atlantic
we go to the unknown I did not have any
landmarks
on the other hand once when we start
out of his comfort zone we decide to
what we really want to do is act
with pleasure with what we know
really do with his talents with
with his desires with his
personality
this area 2 of panic she gets
transforms into a magic zone
thank you
[Applause]
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