my name is moons EMV ensign I’m from
Denmark I used to be a school teacher
it’s some many years ago and I can tell
you one thing if I have to describe
myself as you as a human being I am 100
percent totally without discussion and I
kid you not crazy
I am absolutely crazy and a lot of you
are nodding well then it makes sense
while you’re warming up and everything
and you have this vibrant energy to you
the thing is being crazy every morning I
wake up I tell my first of all I say
thank you for being the given the
opportunity but then I said today it’s
very important for you moons to be crazy
how many in this room are crazy hands up
please oh that’s good that’s good that’s
very good I saw actually a few of you
doing you were stricken by something
called the SLS syndrome it’s called the
shoelace syndrome do you remember that
in class when a very difficult question
that may be a bit challenging is asked
and all sudden you realize oh my
shoelace is just lit up so yeah fiddle
with them and you ask 20 seconds you
resurface and you hope it’s all gone
away today we’re going to talk about
perception that actually what we
experience is like in life depends upon
the eyes that are viewing what’s
happening so crazy we have about a
hundred and twenty positive spirits in
here I think if I gave you the task of
defining what does it mean to be crazy
maybe I would be given a hundred
different definitions which is fair
enough but since I’m the talker today of
course my version is the true one for me
being crazy is the fact that as a human
being I am totally addicted to tying
myself to the things in life that matter
the most and give me the biggest why I
try to do the things that are able to
ignite a fire within that burns with the
power of a thousand volcanoes because
then I can ignite what for me is
very important and that is the thing
that we all need to reach our goals and
dreams passion passion as I see it is
the bearer of everything because it
means that you are doing what makes the
most sense for you passion brings the
biggest why for you what you can achieve
in life depends on how much you can
resist the limit to what we can achieve
is what we can resist and thank God for
that imagine that your biggest dreams
came without effort and your biggest
mountains in life you could achieve
without really having to work hard I’m
44 years young that’s the biggest
surprise so far today because you’re
thinking you must be around early 30s
just goes to show that being physically
fit keeps you young
but the thing is that we have to know I
can tell you especially the young people
you are still to realize it and the
people who are my age a bit older you
will say to yourself you know the things
that I actually cherished the most were
the ones that I had to work the hardest
for because that’s where I learned the
most I am an asthmatic I was diagnosed
quite late I was 26 and it was like a
two-edged sword I was doing triathlon
you know swimming running and biking on
a national elite level at the time
training 30 to 40 hours per week and I
often felt tired which makes sense right
but I often felt the fact that I was
like breathing through a straw and I
went to my doctor after half a year
feeling like that and I did some tests
and he said well I can just tell you you
have a big engine from the first test
with this which is fair enough but as
you all know that’s just a talent that
you have what is very important is the
potential and potential and talent if
you see potential this house you utilize
your talent it doesn’t matter if you
have a big talent and you don’t have the
will to work hard because that’s 97% of
the roads to summiting something like
Everest you only have a 60
cent exploitation rate off your big
engine he said so yes you’re an
asthmatic and at one point it was a
relief because now I knew that I wasn’t
just being a chicken and on the other
half I now had to realize that I had an
illness that would probably and most
certainly follow me through the rest of
my life now this could also be a
situation that you’re all in whenever we
in a situation we have a choice I had a
choice I actually had two choices first
of all was or this is very sad for me
and I really have to or I can’t do
anything about it and I let my illness
control me and I would just sit back in
my living room feeling sorry for myself
the rest of my life the wildest activity
I would do and no hard feelings but
playing bridge getting a comfort zone
this small that’s choice a choice B is
no way I will not let myself be limited
I will take control of my illness and
then I will learn what it takes for me
to be able to live a normal life and to
build to dream just as high as before I
was given this diagnosis now whenever
you do things there are two ways of
motivation the first one is internal
motivation what can ignite the fire
within what’s in it for me watch my big
why and the second one is what messages
do I want to send through the world
around me well I have time the highest
mountain on earth I see here Mount
Everest almost 9,000 meters high the
cruising altitude of an a Airbus 380 if
I were the only person in the world well
it’s a trick question of course I
wouldn’t there was also another message
that I could send I wanted to send other
messages first of all I thought if
you’re honest mattad you do know that
you can be rather challenging if an
asthmatic can go to the place on earth
where there’s the least amount of oxygen
available one-third as compared to here
that would be the biggest metaphor in my
opinion that I could send to myself that
anything is possible
even though you’re as matic and also if
you look at the external
motivation if I can do this and have
that serve as the platform for be the
change you want to see in the world that
Gandhi said many years ago the fact that
one person actually has a chance of
starting with himself if he wishes to
see a difference and maybe affecting
others Mattox that they shouldn’t let
themselves be limited an asthmatic with
such thin arms as me on the summit of
Everest then unless magic in Canada I
could be looking at that and saying wow
if that’s possible for him then I can
pursue my own Everest here in Canada
I’ve always dreamed about running four
kilometers around my lake but I’ve never
done it I’m 25 years old it’s been a 15
year old dream but because him or her
hearse that here’s the story they said
if he can do that I pursue my own
everything then they start and you know
the best way to climb a mountain anybody
has a good an idea then please raise
your hand what’s the best way to climb a
mountain you’re absolutely right it’s
taking one step at a time
now I’m a curious person and I’m a
wandering person so I thought climbing
Everest in itself wasn’t enough and I
know I’m crazy how could I make the
challenge bigger well when I decided to
climb Everest about four thousand people
have done it less than 80 people have
done it without supplemental oxygen so I
thought how many of the eight he had
asked me how many do you think had asked
me at the time what done it without OHS
it was a big fat zero so why not create
world history and become the first
asthmatic in the world to summit Everest
without oxygen now if we have a a
challenge scale from one to ten where
would you say that we are right now an
asthmatic schoolteacher wanting to climb
Everest without oxygen is that a five in
your rate yeah you’re nodding that’s
it’s a good thing to see you have like
here a lot of dimensions full of the end
result but it wasn’t ten for me so I
thought I’m gonna increase the challenge
and having a small brain I was running
out of options you know so I had to
think for a long time but then in the
end I realized I now have my ultimate
challenge for myself before I become a
father
so my ultimate challenge was instead of
flying from Denmark through Nepal I
could transport myself so in the end my
10 became cycling and running 11,500
kilometres from Denmark through 13
countries down to Everest base camp in
Tibbett as you see here as a warm-up to
climbing Everest without oxygen it’s the
first asthmatic in the world and yes you
can continue running you’re absolutely
right moans there are a lot of ways to
define being crazy and you have just
given us a few fair enough but that was
what I thought I was capable of and
doing that one thing because you all are
going to pursue your own Everest you
have to remember one thing that when you
do that you also invite the possibility
of failure and that is one thing you
have to be aware of I have one of my
mattresses if you fall seven times
there’s only one thing for you to do and
that is stand our bait the limit to what
you can achieve is going to be what you
can resist and that means that you may
fail twice I summited Everest not in my
first attempt I cycle and ran all the
way down to base camp I reach eight
thousand five hundred meters and I had
to turn around because it was too cold I
was in my foot imagine being done with
ninety nine point nine to nine percent
of your journey and you can write world
history and you have to turn around then
it’s very important to have a big why
when you come back home that says am I
going to find the motivation to train
for another and come back my big why was
big enough so I did that on my third
attempt I saw much at Everest so that
just goes to show that you have to have
so much passion you have to have so much
realization that just because you don’t
succeed in your first a second attempt
no one said that the third attempt
wouldn’t be the lucky chance where it
happened so that’s actually something
that can be done if you just continue
working hard it’s the same thing here I
heard a great story that this school
started with five students and today I
think that number was fifteen hundred
that to me is an
really of climbing and Everest in itself
maybe some of you look at that that’s
fair enough I just told you what I did
and you think that that’s impossible
well it was for me in the beginning but
I was able to know that I had to take
one step at a time it’s the same way if
you have a big cake you only eat one
piece at a time and then it can be done
one thing if you imagine you have a
mountain one side is the dream and the
goal and the other side what happens to
a mountain that only has one side it
collapses like this and then you have a
straight line did anyone ever go to a
hospital if you have an EKG done the
nurse will tell you moans when you have
your EKG it’s a good thing it goes like
this if you have a straight line you
have a problem so you have to pull the
red string right because then you’re
dead
so you have to realize that life is
about the sinus curb and up here is
great but it takes a lot of effort to
grow uphill so here you have the dream
before venturing and the next one you
have the price that I had to pay I had
to go to the absolute limit of human
capacity physically and mentally I had
to go to a place where I didn’t care
whether I lived or died that was the
price I had to pay to fulfill my dream
and I don’t know if you recognize the
next person on the picture but I think I
look a bit hola yeah and that’s the
price I had to pay and I willingly did
it I’ve just come down from the summit
of Everest here and I really don’t care
much whether I live or I am that tired
it’s only a little fire within the eyes
that says moans the only halfway on the
summit of Everest if you sit down and
die you won’t be able to go home and
tell all your stories so when you sum it
on a mountain remember the only halfway
and 90% of all accidents happened on the
way down one thing I’ve learned is that
it doesn’t matter whether you believe
that your dream can come true or not
then you’re right
because it’s a matter of perception the
human brain what do you think it has the
easiest task of doing negative thinking
of positive thinking negative thinking
because the human brain finished its
development during Stone Age and if you
were positive to doing Stone Age you
would get killed because the tiger would
be eating you so that’s the mechanism we
still have it takes an active awareness
to be positive and we know that positive
mindset is good for us it broadens our
horizons it makes our well-being better
but the thing is remember that it
doesn’t matter if you think you can do
it or not you’re right because your
focus becomes your reality so remember
that and here you have another focus I
don’t know if you can imagine what that
one would feel like you’re under
pressure you have something like that’s
in Turkey it’s not on Everest it’s just
ongoing the way down I had to cycle or
eight days in -30° and that meant after
10 minutes on my mountain bike I was
like this after half an hour I couldn’t
feel my fingers and my hands I had to go
in and warm up in the car can you
understand that I had a little devil in
the back of my head and said what on
earth are you doing here let’s turn
around and go back home and the only
answer that I could find to make us go
forwards was to look in my mental
backpack and find my why why am I doing
this if you can’t find a way big enough
when you meet a mountain before your big
mountain then you’re going to turn
around so what I did was so I saw
everything on the way as a preparing
task that would maybe give me 1% extra
for tomorrow 1% can be the difference
between success and failure so I just
continued and I broke it into small
pieces one step at a time and then you
also have to remember that Gandhi also
said that the journey is the goal focus
on the journey and pick up all the small
parts of positivity you have had a hard
day cycling or working hard but if you
have a sunset like that cherish it and
feel grateful and then all the pain will
go away so remember to enjoy the good
thing
what it actually been I started on the
front page of my local newspaper it was
a middle tire size town of Denmark which
is 40,000 that’s a big city in Denmark
40,000 inhabitants we only have five
million people living in Denmark so you
understand but the thing is I didn’t
summon on my first attempt but on the
second and third attempt chance would or
fate or maybe the Lord in the sky that
Discovery Channel it’s it’s a small
American documentary channel right you
you’re this gentleman is from America
he’ll know that describe which analysts
use but apparently the fact was that
Discovery Channel have made a deal with
my expedition organizers who do a global
documentary 12 programs 45 minutes sent
globally so all of a sudden instead of
for having a platform of my own time I
became one of the main characters on
Discovery Channel I was the first day
never to be on a global Discovery
Channel program so instead of having
40,000 people as a platform to get my
message out as we speak today 10 years
after the program’s came out first more
than half a billion people have watched
the programs and because I was one of
the main characters I have had the big
blessing of being able to inspire people
so every weeks for 10 years I’ve had
emails from people around the world who
have seen the programs and said moans
that was very inspiring I am an
asthmatic and a few she started to see
the fact that I don’t have to limit
myself and I believe ladies and
gentlemen that the biggest compliment
you can get as a human being is the fact
that you can inspire other people and
help other people there’s the saying
that I think is very much important we
are living in a race where
self-realization has been a big topic
but the best thing you can do for
yourself if you’re having a bad day go
help someone thank you
you
[Applause]
Denmark I used to be a school teacher
it’s some many years ago and I can tell
you one thing if I have to describe
myself as you as a human being I am 100
percent totally without discussion and I
kid you not crazy
I am absolutely crazy and a lot of you
are nodding well then it makes sense
while you’re warming up and everything
and you have this vibrant energy to you
the thing is being crazy every morning I
wake up I tell my first of all I say
thank you for being the given the
opportunity but then I said today it’s
very important for you moons to be crazy
how many in this room are crazy hands up
please oh that’s good that’s good that’s
very good I saw actually a few of you
doing you were stricken by something
called the SLS syndrome it’s called the
shoelace syndrome do you remember that
in class when a very difficult question
that may be a bit challenging is asked
and all sudden you realize oh my
shoelace is just lit up so yeah fiddle
with them and you ask 20 seconds you
resurface and you hope it’s all gone
away today we’re going to talk about
perception that actually what we
experience is like in life depends upon
the eyes that are viewing what’s
happening so crazy we have about a
hundred and twenty positive spirits in
here I think if I gave you the task of
defining what does it mean to be crazy
maybe I would be given a hundred
different definitions which is fair
enough but since I’m the talker today of
course my version is the true one for me
being crazy is the fact that as a human
being I am totally addicted to tying
myself to the things in life that matter
the most and give me the biggest why I
try to do the things that are able to
ignite a fire within that burns with the
power of a thousand volcanoes because
then I can ignite what for me is
very important and that is the thing
that we all need to reach our goals and
dreams passion passion as I see it is
the bearer of everything because it
means that you are doing what makes the
most sense for you passion brings the
biggest why for you what you can achieve
in life depends on how much you can
resist the limit to what we can achieve
is what we can resist and thank God for
that imagine that your biggest dreams
came without effort and your biggest
mountains in life you could achieve
without really having to work hard I’m
44 years young that’s the biggest
surprise so far today because you’re
thinking you must be around early 30s
just goes to show that being physically
fit keeps you young
but the thing is that we have to know I
can tell you especially the young people
you are still to realize it and the
people who are my age a bit older you
will say to yourself you know the things
that I actually cherished the most were
the ones that I had to work the hardest
for because that’s where I learned the
most I am an asthmatic I was diagnosed
quite late I was 26 and it was like a
two-edged sword I was doing triathlon
you know swimming running and biking on
a national elite level at the time
training 30 to 40 hours per week and I
often felt tired which makes sense right
but I often felt the fact that I was
like breathing through a straw and I
went to my doctor after half a year
feeling like that and I did some tests
and he said well I can just tell you you
have a big engine from the first test
with this which is fair enough but as
you all know that’s just a talent that
you have what is very important is the
potential and potential and talent if
you see potential this house you utilize
your talent it doesn’t matter if you
have a big talent and you don’t have the
will to work hard because that’s 97% of
the roads to summiting something like
Everest you only have a 60
cent exploitation rate off your big
engine he said so yes you’re an
asthmatic and at one point it was a
relief because now I knew that I wasn’t
just being a chicken and on the other
half I now had to realize that I had an
illness that would probably and most
certainly follow me through the rest of
my life now this could also be a
situation that you’re all in whenever we
in a situation we have a choice I had a
choice I actually had two choices first
of all was or this is very sad for me
and I really have to or I can’t do
anything about it and I let my illness
control me and I would just sit back in
my living room feeling sorry for myself
the rest of my life the wildest activity
I would do and no hard feelings but
playing bridge getting a comfort zone
this small that’s choice a choice B is
no way I will not let myself be limited
I will take control of my illness and
then I will learn what it takes for me
to be able to live a normal life and to
build to dream just as high as before I
was given this diagnosis now whenever
you do things there are two ways of
motivation the first one is internal
motivation what can ignite the fire
within what’s in it for me watch my big
why and the second one is what messages
do I want to send through the world
around me well I have time the highest
mountain on earth I see here Mount
Everest almost 9,000 meters high the
cruising altitude of an a Airbus 380 if
I were the only person in the world well
it’s a trick question of course I
wouldn’t there was also another message
that I could send I wanted to send other
messages first of all I thought if
you’re honest mattad you do know that
you can be rather challenging if an
asthmatic can go to the place on earth
where there’s the least amount of oxygen
available one-third as compared to here
that would be the biggest metaphor in my
opinion that I could send to myself that
anything is possible
even though you’re as matic and also if
you look at the external
motivation if I can do this and have
that serve as the platform for be the
change you want to see in the world that
Gandhi said many years ago the fact that
one person actually has a chance of
starting with himself if he wishes to
see a difference and maybe affecting
others Mattox that they shouldn’t let
themselves be limited an asthmatic with
such thin arms as me on the summit of
Everest then unless magic in Canada I
could be looking at that and saying wow
if that’s possible for him then I can
pursue my own Everest here in Canada
I’ve always dreamed about running four
kilometers around my lake but I’ve never
done it I’m 25 years old it’s been a 15
year old dream but because him or her
hearse that here’s the story they said
if he can do that I pursue my own
everything then they start and you know
the best way to climb a mountain anybody
has a good an idea then please raise
your hand what’s the best way to climb a
mountain you’re absolutely right it’s
taking one step at a time
now I’m a curious person and I’m a
wandering person so I thought climbing
Everest in itself wasn’t enough and I
know I’m crazy how could I make the
challenge bigger well when I decided to
climb Everest about four thousand people
have done it less than 80 people have
done it without supplemental oxygen so I
thought how many of the eight he had
asked me how many do you think had asked
me at the time what done it without OHS
it was a big fat zero so why not create
world history and become the first
asthmatic in the world to summit Everest
without oxygen now if we have a a
challenge scale from one to ten where
would you say that we are right now an
asthmatic schoolteacher wanting to climb
Everest without oxygen is that a five in
your rate yeah you’re nodding that’s
it’s a good thing to see you have like
here a lot of dimensions full of the end
result but it wasn’t ten for me so I
thought I’m gonna increase the challenge
and having a small brain I was running
out of options you know so I had to
think for a long time but then in the
end I realized I now have my ultimate
challenge for myself before I become a
father
so my ultimate challenge was instead of
flying from Denmark through Nepal I
could transport myself so in the end my
10 became cycling and running 11,500
kilometres from Denmark through 13
countries down to Everest base camp in
Tibbett as you see here as a warm-up to
climbing Everest without oxygen it’s the
first asthmatic in the world and yes you
can continue running you’re absolutely
right moans there are a lot of ways to
define being crazy and you have just
given us a few fair enough but that was
what I thought I was capable of and
doing that one thing because you all are
going to pursue your own Everest you
have to remember one thing that when you
do that you also invite the possibility
of failure and that is one thing you
have to be aware of I have one of my
mattresses if you fall seven times
there’s only one thing for you to do and
that is stand our bait the limit to what
you can achieve is going to be what you
can resist and that means that you may
fail twice I summited Everest not in my
first attempt I cycle and ran all the
way down to base camp I reach eight
thousand five hundred meters and I had
to turn around because it was too cold I
was in my foot imagine being done with
ninety nine point nine to nine percent
of your journey and you can write world
history and you have to turn around then
it’s very important to have a big why
when you come back home that says am I
going to find the motivation to train
for another and come back my big why was
big enough so I did that on my third
attempt I saw much at Everest so that
just goes to show that you have to have
so much passion you have to have so much
realization that just because you don’t
succeed in your first a second attempt
no one said that the third attempt
wouldn’t be the lucky chance where it
happened so that’s actually something
that can be done if you just continue
working hard it’s the same thing here I
heard a great story that this school
started with five students and today I
think that number was fifteen hundred
that to me is an
really of climbing and Everest in itself
maybe some of you look at that that’s
fair enough I just told you what I did
and you think that that’s impossible
well it was for me in the beginning but
I was able to know that I had to take
one step at a time it’s the same way if
you have a big cake you only eat one
piece at a time and then it can be done
one thing if you imagine you have a
mountain one side is the dream and the
goal and the other side what happens to
a mountain that only has one side it
collapses like this and then you have a
straight line did anyone ever go to a
hospital if you have an EKG done the
nurse will tell you moans when you have
your EKG it’s a good thing it goes like
this if you have a straight line you
have a problem so you have to pull the
red string right because then you’re
dead
so you have to realize that life is
about the sinus curb and up here is
great but it takes a lot of effort to
grow uphill so here you have the dream
before venturing and the next one you
have the price that I had to pay I had
to go to the absolute limit of human
capacity physically and mentally I had
to go to a place where I didn’t care
whether I lived or died that was the
price I had to pay to fulfill my dream
and I don’t know if you recognize the
next person on the picture but I think I
look a bit hola yeah and that’s the
price I had to pay and I willingly did
it I’ve just come down from the summit
of Everest here and I really don’t care
much whether I live or I am that tired
it’s only a little fire within the eyes
that says moans the only halfway on the
summit of Everest if you sit down and
die you won’t be able to go home and
tell all your stories so when you sum it
on a mountain remember the only halfway
and 90% of all accidents happened on the
way down one thing I’ve learned is that
it doesn’t matter whether you believe
that your dream can come true or not
then you’re right
because it’s a matter of perception the
human brain what do you think it has the
easiest task of doing negative thinking
of positive thinking negative thinking
because the human brain finished its
development during Stone Age and if you
were positive to doing Stone Age you
would get killed because the tiger would
be eating you so that’s the mechanism we
still have it takes an active awareness
to be positive and we know that positive
mindset is good for us it broadens our
horizons it makes our well-being better
but the thing is remember that it
doesn’t matter if you think you can do
it or not you’re right because your
focus becomes your reality so remember
that and here you have another focus I
don’t know if you can imagine what that
one would feel like you’re under
pressure you have something like that’s
in Turkey it’s not on Everest it’s just
ongoing the way down I had to cycle or
eight days in -30° and that meant after
10 minutes on my mountain bike I was
like this after half an hour I couldn’t
feel my fingers and my hands I had to go
in and warm up in the car can you
understand that I had a little devil in
the back of my head and said what on
earth are you doing here let’s turn
around and go back home and the only
answer that I could find to make us go
forwards was to look in my mental
backpack and find my why why am I doing
this if you can’t find a way big enough
when you meet a mountain before your big
mountain then you’re going to turn
around so what I did was so I saw
everything on the way as a preparing
task that would maybe give me 1% extra
for tomorrow 1% can be the difference
between success and failure so I just
continued and I broke it into small
pieces one step at a time and then you
also have to remember that Gandhi also
said that the journey is the goal focus
on the journey and pick up all the small
parts of positivity you have had a hard
day cycling or working hard but if you
have a sunset like that cherish it and
feel grateful and then all the pain will
go away so remember to enjoy the good
thing
what it actually been I started on the
front page of my local newspaper it was
a middle tire size town of Denmark which
is 40,000 that’s a big city in Denmark
40,000 inhabitants we only have five
million people living in Denmark so you
understand but the thing is I didn’t
summon on my first attempt but on the
second and third attempt chance would or
fate or maybe the Lord in the sky that
Discovery Channel it’s it’s a small
American documentary channel right you
you’re this gentleman is from America
he’ll know that describe which analysts
use but apparently the fact was that
Discovery Channel have made a deal with
my expedition organizers who do a global
documentary 12 programs 45 minutes sent
globally so all of a sudden instead of
for having a platform of my own time I
became one of the main characters on
Discovery Channel I was the first day
never to be on a global Discovery
Channel program so instead of having
40,000 people as a platform to get my
message out as we speak today 10 years
after the program’s came out first more
than half a billion people have watched
the programs and because I was one of
the main characters I have had the big
blessing of being able to inspire people
so every weeks for 10 years I’ve had
emails from people around the world who
have seen the programs and said moans
that was very inspiring I am an
asthmatic and a few she started to see
the fact that I don’t have to limit
myself and I believe ladies and
gentlemen that the biggest compliment
you can get as a human being is the fact
that you can inspire other people and
help other people there’s the saying
that I think is very much important we
are living in a race where
self-realization has been a big topic
but the best thing you can do for
yourself if you’re having a bad day go
help someone thank you
you
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