hello thank you for having me here today
I’m going to speak about my 3d model yes
but before that I’m going to start with
the topic of this section of the day
right about Patos so I’m going to tell
you a little bit about myself I’ve
always been passionate about reading
unfortunately there are very few jobs in
this world that pay you to read write so
I started this when I was really young
because my father figured out a way to
make reading really fun so I learned to
read at 3 years old and I kept reading
and reading and reading and when I got
older I thought that maybe I could
transform this into a job and I realized
when I was about a teenager that people
are more interested in accepting you in
their group if you’re telling them
stories so I started to read stuff and
actually tell stories about what I was
reading and this is how I got accepted
and it kept bugging me how could I
actually make a job out of this and then
I found out that there is a job it’s
called a trainer or a teacher and you
actually read and learn and then you
share what you’re learning and you get
paid for it so for the last 15 years
I’ve been a trainer and an entrepreneur
I say that I have been an entrepreneur
because I’ve also managed to make a
living out of being passionate about
reading and learning and I was really
curious to figure out where did this
come from and I don’t know if you heard
of Brian little he’s a research can
bridge professor and he dedicated a lot
of his time to figure out where does
personality come from and his theory is
that 50 percent of our personality is
ingrained in our genes and 25 percent
comes from where we’ve been raised and
the external environment
and parent friends and so on besides
that we still have 25% that’s 25% of
free will who we choose to be and I
think that in my case in that jeans
Super Bowl
I got curiosity engrained and the
passion for learning
besides that at a later age I discovered
that I also like connecting people and
that was the moment when I realized that
I could actually make a living out of my
passion for reading and learning because
we learn the most when we teach others
actually you can transform this into a
job or into making a living it’s an
easier creation you need to figure out a
way to find people that need what you
sell and also want what you sell so the
fact that you are good at learning it’s
not good enough or it’s not enough you
need to find people that are in need of
your learning and of your teachings and
also want to pay for that unfortunately
where I’m coming from I don’t know how
it’s in Greece in Romania people are not
really willing to pay too much for
education they think that is needed but
when it comes to wanting it it just
doesn’t seem that they want it bad
enough to actually buy it so this is
where a conflict kind of started you
know I’m passionate about these topics
and I’m really good at these but how can
I make it a meaningful life and also to
have some food on the table because it’s
really nice to do what you’re passionate
about to feel that there is meaning in
your life but if there is the bank
knocking at your door then is not fun
anymore
so the journey to a meaningful life
started when I decided okay so this is
what I’m good at this I kid what I could
sell finding the people to sell it to
what other variables are in this
equation I heard this quote from Dalai
Lama he said that if you’re happy and
you SFIL you found the meaning in life
okay so the question was how to be
useful and also earn a living out of it
because I was really excited I found
what a meaningful life meant for me so
when you have it all figured out the red
carpet our roles in your are Oscar
nominee but how do you get the Oscar for
the most meaningful life well first you
need to ask yourself if you want this
Oscar if you really want to find out
what a meaningful life means for you
how this is defined for you and how much
you’re willing to work for it how much
effort you are willing to put him so for
me the whole journey was quite complex
I’ve been looking into it for about
thirty years I’ve been also going in
circles sometime and I’ve also had
crossroads and thinking which way to go
there were times when I wanted to give
up being a trainer there were times when
I thought that I’m not not meant to be
an entrepreneur because my companies
were not so successful actually I’ve
been corrupted a couple of them so then
I said okay let’s I lost this noise
let’s take some moments to reflect and I
came up with this simple recipe
so I distilled everything into three
these three steps dream wildly plan well
well there do more and with passion why
these because people need simple recipes
things that they can relate to and it’s
much easier if you put them in key words
so let’s take them a little bit one by
one you have or you had grandmother’s
right so I heard that in Greece also as
in my country grandmothers like to cook
and feed you with a lot of food yes well
why do you think they do that because it
makes them happy right and they feel
useful so I think they have a meaningful
life when you eat their food I don’t
know about you if you feel the same but
it’s been proven actually scientifically
proven that the same parts of the brain
are triggered when you are altruistic so
useful to others as when you are having
sex drugs listening to music eating food
or practicing religion now that’s an
interesting fact isn’t it and in all
these process you could integrate this
recipe the-dream wildly might be
something that you need when you think
that nothing is possible anymore you
don’t see a solution out of things you
can’t figure out a way out and then if
you are locate some time to actually you
know like even now take out the phones
and write down what you dreamt of being
or becoming when you are really the kid
those are true as to our hearts actually
some other times we need more planning
and some other times we need to forget
about dreams forget about the plans we
need to just figure out a way to find
our courage the down deep and do start
doing an action and put some passion
into it because passion is the fuel of
action even if fears come running after
us still figure out a way to do it so
let’s go through this join me in this
journey people say that
you need to get out of your comfort zone
find out what you’re good at and you
know if you get out there you will find
other people like you and together you
can build a community and do things and
so on and so forth that’s wonderful but
it’s quite difficult to get out of your
comfort zone let’s be honest it’s not
something that you can do like when you
drink coffee in the morning so I would
say let’s start in our comfort zone so
how about this this is what I see as a
comfort zone a country house and staying
with the friends around the fire and
talking leisurely talking even about our
dreams because the perfect environment
it’s really comfortable you’re
comfortable with your friends you will
feel comfortable to share dreams that
you think that are maybe perhaps not so
realistic or even impossible but you’ll
feel comfortable to talk about them now
then you can go also home and remember
that you have those 25% of free will of
you choosing who you want to be there is
the other seventy-five that you cannot
control but you still have 25 so you can
go home and actually those dreams put
them on paper let them simmer and they
will filter down to something even if
you don’t have okay time for them and
you work on something else one day an
idea will pop up and this dream from
childhood will come back again and this
is how you will also discover the gifts
that you have and something that you
could give to others be useful and thus
have a meaningful life the plan works
only if it moves you further so if you
plan something like a trip for example a
couple of years ago I was thinking of
going to Bali and it was really nice you
know I think I think you’ve all planned
trips right
so you’re thinking what should you put
in the luggage what plane ticket to buy
what could you visit when you get there
it’s an enjoyable experience it’s
actually been proven scientifically that
it’s so enjoyable that we have the same
triggers in our brain was the actual
holiday and then my boss called and said
I’ve got it all figured out
you’re gonna start the project tomorrow
so goodbye Bali
trip right but I had a back-up plan my
plan B was to go to Lefkada and it was
actually very good plan because that
happened and I really loved Lefkada
now was it a good plan was it a wish
list I would say that the Bali plan was
the wish list the back-up plan happened
and it moved me further so that was a
good plan now sometimes plans don’t work
like for example when you want to give
up sugar I gave up sugar for 30 days
like literally looking or all the labels
making sure that that thing doesn’t have
sugar if it has I won’t eat it it was
challenging but it was an ambition I was
stubborn about it so I did it I have a
friend that decided that his family was
watching too much TV so he sold all the
TVs from the apartment he calls that
surgical change like you remove it
completely from your environment well
for me that workout that didn’t work out
with sweets and sugar and I don’t think
that it works so easily because sugar is
something that we kind of need maybe not
in such big quantities but we definitely
want and I bet that the inventor of
sugar was someone that wanted to sell
the sugar so that was the recipe so in
these cases the best is to try small
steps and it will get you further as
long as you move it’s good it doesn’t
matter if the dream looks seems still so
far far away
if
get you further even a little bit then
the plan works and it’s helpful and the
last step is there do I write it
together because they are coming in a
pair you know it’s like you dare a
little bit you do a little bit if
they’re a bit poor then you do a bit
more and of course sometimes it’s not
even three steps is just one step in the
whole jump you know you might need
figure out a way to dance with your
fears and say hey come on we’re going to
jump now and actually do it the passion
is fueling this courage and all those
gifts if you figure them out we’ll keep
the fire going of course at a certain
moment it will get really lonely because
the extra mile is not a crowded place
and that’s the moment when we give in
you know maybe the economic crisis
happens or you lose your job or the baby
gets sick so forget about the dreams you
need to focus on the problems that are
at hand and figure out the solution for
those and then you ignore what you’re
good at what your dreams were how to
actually make a living a meaningful
living out of that instead of something
else but you need to figure out a way to
stay on that road and you can do this
with discipline actually the successful
people know that you can be really
talented but 99% is sweat and work I’ve
put this in a book and I used this book
in workshops how things work for me it’s
that if we were to watch a movie
together for example you would be
excited about the plot well I will take
out my phone and look up and see if that
movie was made after a book and how did
that book become successful so the
entrepreneur inside me is thinking how
could you make money out of a book
perhaps and the trainer in me is
thinking how can I use this in a
workshop
in the following days so I ended up
using for example Fifty Shades of Grey
in explaining Bloom’s taxonomy which is
something very serious or explaining
book marketing this is one of my gifts
learning and I found a way to live a
meaningful life with it to live a
meaningful life and also a plentiful
life where I can make money out of my
passion and it all started with a trip
in my genetics mix figuring out what are
my gifts so I wish you the same I wish
you dare do live a meaningful life
figure out what are your dreams what are
your gifts accept them even if perhaps
they are not so socially accepted maybe
they are eccentric make a plan as long
as it moves you further that’s a good
plan small steps and when it’s time to jump just jump thank you very much
I’m going to speak about my 3d model yes
but before that I’m going to start with
the topic of this section of the day
right about Patos so I’m going to tell
you a little bit about myself I’ve
always been passionate about reading
unfortunately there are very few jobs in
this world that pay you to read write so
I started this when I was really young
because my father figured out a way to
make reading really fun so I learned to
read at 3 years old and I kept reading
and reading and reading and when I got
older I thought that maybe I could
transform this into a job and I realized
when I was about a teenager that people
are more interested in accepting you in
their group if you’re telling them
stories so I started to read stuff and
actually tell stories about what I was
reading and this is how I got accepted
and it kept bugging me how could I
actually make a job out of this and then
I found out that there is a job it’s
called a trainer or a teacher and you
actually read and learn and then you
share what you’re learning and you get
paid for it so for the last 15 years
I’ve been a trainer and an entrepreneur
I say that I have been an entrepreneur
because I’ve also managed to make a
living out of being passionate about
reading and learning and I was really
curious to figure out where did this
come from and I don’t know if you heard
of Brian little he’s a research can
bridge professor and he dedicated a lot
of his time to figure out where does
personality come from and his theory is
that 50 percent of our personality is
ingrained in our genes and 25 percent
comes from where we’ve been raised and
the external environment
and parent friends and so on besides
that we still have 25% that’s 25% of
free will who we choose to be and I
think that in my case in that jeans
Super Bowl
I got curiosity engrained and the
passion for learning
besides that at a later age I discovered
that I also like connecting people and
that was the moment when I realized that
I could actually make a living out of my
passion for reading and learning because
we learn the most when we teach others
actually you can transform this into a
job or into making a living it’s an
easier creation you need to figure out a
way to find people that need what you
sell and also want what you sell so the
fact that you are good at learning it’s
not good enough or it’s not enough you
need to find people that are in need of
your learning and of your teachings and
also want to pay for that unfortunately
where I’m coming from I don’t know how
it’s in Greece in Romania people are not
really willing to pay too much for
education they think that is needed but
when it comes to wanting it it just
doesn’t seem that they want it bad
enough to actually buy it so this is
where a conflict kind of started you
know I’m passionate about these topics
and I’m really good at these but how can
I make it a meaningful life and also to
have some food on the table because it’s
really nice to do what you’re passionate
about to feel that there is meaning in
your life but if there is the bank
knocking at your door then is not fun
anymore
so the journey to a meaningful life
started when I decided okay so this is
what I’m good at this I kid what I could
sell finding the people to sell it to
what other variables are in this
equation I heard this quote from Dalai
Lama he said that if you’re happy and
you SFIL you found the meaning in life
okay so the question was how to be
useful and also earn a living out of it
because I was really excited I found
what a meaningful life meant for me so
when you have it all figured out the red
carpet our roles in your are Oscar
nominee but how do you get the Oscar for
the most meaningful life well first you
need to ask yourself if you want this
Oscar if you really want to find out
what a meaningful life means for you
how this is defined for you and how much
you’re willing to work for it how much
effort you are willing to put him so for
me the whole journey was quite complex
I’ve been looking into it for about
thirty years I’ve been also going in
circles sometime and I’ve also had
crossroads and thinking which way to go
there were times when I wanted to give
up being a trainer there were times when
I thought that I’m not not meant to be
an entrepreneur because my companies
were not so successful actually I’ve
been corrupted a couple of them so then
I said okay let’s I lost this noise
let’s take some moments to reflect and I
came up with this simple recipe
so I distilled everything into three
these three steps dream wildly plan well
well there do more and with passion why
these because people need simple recipes
things that they can relate to and it’s
much easier if you put them in key words
so let’s take them a little bit one by
one you have or you had grandmother’s
right so I heard that in Greece also as
in my country grandmothers like to cook
and feed you with a lot of food yes well
why do you think they do that because it
makes them happy right and they feel
useful so I think they have a meaningful
life when you eat their food I don’t
know about you if you feel the same but
it’s been proven actually scientifically
proven that the same parts of the brain
are triggered when you are altruistic so
useful to others as when you are having
sex drugs listening to music eating food
or practicing religion now that’s an
interesting fact isn’t it and in all
these process you could integrate this
recipe the-dream wildly might be
something that you need when you think
that nothing is possible anymore you
don’t see a solution out of things you
can’t figure out a way out and then if
you are locate some time to actually you
know like even now take out the phones
and write down what you dreamt of being
or becoming when you are really the kid
those are true as to our hearts actually
some other times we need more planning
and some other times we need to forget
about dreams forget about the plans we
need to just figure out a way to find
our courage the down deep and do start
doing an action and put some passion
into it because passion is the fuel of
action even if fears come running after
us still figure out a way to do it so
let’s go through this join me in this
journey people say that
you need to get out of your comfort zone
find out what you’re good at and you
know if you get out there you will find
other people like you and together you
can build a community and do things and
so on and so forth that’s wonderful but
it’s quite difficult to get out of your
comfort zone let’s be honest it’s not
something that you can do like when you
drink coffee in the morning so I would
say let’s start in our comfort zone so
how about this this is what I see as a
comfort zone a country house and staying
with the friends around the fire and
talking leisurely talking even about our
dreams because the perfect environment
it’s really comfortable you’re
comfortable with your friends you will
feel comfortable to share dreams that
you think that are maybe perhaps not so
realistic or even impossible but you’ll
feel comfortable to talk about them now
then you can go also home and remember
that you have those 25% of free will of
you choosing who you want to be there is
the other seventy-five that you cannot
control but you still have 25 so you can
go home and actually those dreams put
them on paper let them simmer and they
will filter down to something even if
you don’t have okay time for them and
you work on something else one day an
idea will pop up and this dream from
childhood will come back again and this
is how you will also discover the gifts
that you have and something that you
could give to others be useful and thus
have a meaningful life the plan works
only if it moves you further so if you
plan something like a trip for example a
couple of years ago I was thinking of
going to Bali and it was really nice you
know I think I think you’ve all planned
trips right
so you’re thinking what should you put
in the luggage what plane ticket to buy
what could you visit when you get there
it’s an enjoyable experience it’s
actually been proven scientifically that
it’s so enjoyable that we have the same
triggers in our brain was the actual
holiday and then my boss called and said
I’ve got it all figured out
you’re gonna start the project tomorrow
so goodbye Bali
trip right but I had a back-up plan my
plan B was to go to Lefkada and it was
actually very good plan because that
happened and I really loved Lefkada
now was it a good plan was it a wish
list I would say that the Bali plan was
the wish list the back-up plan happened
and it moved me further so that was a
good plan now sometimes plans don’t work
like for example when you want to give
up sugar I gave up sugar for 30 days
like literally looking or all the labels
making sure that that thing doesn’t have
sugar if it has I won’t eat it it was
challenging but it was an ambition I was
stubborn about it so I did it I have a
friend that decided that his family was
watching too much TV so he sold all the
TVs from the apartment he calls that
surgical change like you remove it
completely from your environment well
for me that workout that didn’t work out
with sweets and sugar and I don’t think
that it works so easily because sugar is
something that we kind of need maybe not
in such big quantities but we definitely
want and I bet that the inventor of
sugar was someone that wanted to sell
the sugar so that was the recipe so in
these cases the best is to try small
steps and it will get you further as
long as you move it’s good it doesn’t
matter if the dream looks seems still so
far far away
if
get you further even a little bit then
the plan works and it’s helpful and the
last step is there do I write it
together because they are coming in a
pair you know it’s like you dare a
little bit you do a little bit if
they’re a bit poor then you do a bit
more and of course sometimes it’s not
even three steps is just one step in the
whole jump you know you might need
figure out a way to dance with your
fears and say hey come on we’re going to
jump now and actually do it the passion
is fueling this courage and all those
gifts if you figure them out we’ll keep
the fire going of course at a certain
moment it will get really lonely because
the extra mile is not a crowded place
and that’s the moment when we give in
you know maybe the economic crisis
happens or you lose your job or the baby
gets sick so forget about the dreams you
need to focus on the problems that are
at hand and figure out the solution for
those and then you ignore what you’re
good at what your dreams were how to
actually make a living a meaningful
living out of that instead of something
else but you need to figure out a way to
stay on that road and you can do this
with discipline actually the successful
people know that you can be really
talented but 99% is sweat and work I’ve
put this in a book and I used this book
in workshops how things work for me it’s
that if we were to watch a movie
together for example you would be
excited about the plot well I will take
out my phone and look up and see if that
movie was made after a book and how did
that book become successful so the
entrepreneur inside me is thinking how
could you make money out of a book
perhaps and the trainer in me is
thinking how can I use this in a
workshop
in the following days so I ended up
using for example Fifty Shades of Grey
in explaining Bloom’s taxonomy which is
something very serious or explaining
book marketing this is one of my gifts
learning and I found a way to live a
meaningful life with it to live a
meaningful life and also a plentiful
life where I can make money out of my
passion and it all started with a trip
in my genetics mix figuring out what are
my gifts so I wish you the same I wish
you dare do live a meaningful life
figure out what are your dreams what are
your gifts accept them even if perhaps
they are not so socially accepted maybe
they are eccentric make a plan as long
as it moves you further that’s a good
plan small steps and when it’s time to jump just jump thank you very much
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