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El mundo en dos ruedas | Alex Gonzalex | TEDxTijuana


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thanks, thanks to all of you for the
invitation I am very happy to be here
in tijuana I’m alex gonzález
expeditionary writer lecturer
but today I want to share with
all of you something that I think is going to
being around the world I talked more
quick of all my history as
speaker because I have a few minutes
but I want to talk to you about me
philosophy of life speak of 1350
cities of the world have traveled it
have known them have known
lots of characters and even
world-renowned personalities
they teach you things they say that travel
illustrate and I want to talk about
this story that is told in two
parts the first of them to suffer a
let me prostrate disease that
after a miracle I manage to recover
and from that healing process
a question arises that changed my life
I totally hope that at this moment
also change yours and the question is
the next one at this time being the
person that you are have a dream that
was so big so big that just
to think you get skinny hair but
being the person that you are right now
it will be impossible to achieve it
check well as I’m asking you
is going again at this time you had a
dream so big that being the person
that you are will be impossible to achieve
and is that the issue is that most
of us we do not know something that is
important that right now I will explain
when we were all between 7 and 8 years old
with all of us we were beautiful always
the adults asked something and it was
my little boy who wants to be big
little princess who wants to be big and the
thing is that we back then
we always dreamed we even woke up
our eyesight and we said I want to be
lawyer I want to be an astronaut I want to be
superhero I want to be a footballer
singer actress like the other since she
I ask my daughter what you want to be not
I just want to be pretty then good
everyone has his dream as a child
but the problem is that we started
grow and we start to stop dreaming like
children is to say now the big ones the
most important part since they start
to grow in another environment that is not the
from childhood they begin to grow in two
very important concepts that govern a
area that is called the comfort zone
everyone knows it then in the area of
comfort as there are two principles
basic rules that govern that area
what is security and fear then
the dreams of the child no longer leaves
be child dreams and we started to see the
reality and then we started that we
amount much as the time
set goals when I do the
ask if I still had a dream
that being the person that was me
it was impossible to achieve
being prostrate in a bed while
evicted waiting for death I said a
return to the world would be a dream
fantastic for me but I had to leave
to think about him like and I started dreaming
as a child where sun where everything
what I cared about was just feeling
what a person who can feel
can come to fulfill a dream that
being the person that is you will find
impossible to achieve
and I started to dream as a child where as
I did not care anymore and finally I was
life awaiting death the
opportunity of life gives me back the
life I get up from this disease
and I decide to do something worthy of God
complete the round the world in
bicycle demanding me to become
in someone better to achieve it is to say
stop dreaming like big when I start
to practice to the people on that
I wanted to go around the world what
you think it happened as the comfort zone
it’s very big and 95% people live
here they think it happened they started me
to give answers under the fear and
security and they started telling me
be crazy how it can be possible that a
Mexican can conceive a thing like that
leave it to someone from over there where
Then from another place with what bicycle with
how much how many languages you speak you
out of baja california sometime not
well no no no no how many people have
done not because I do not know I think nobody and
you think you’re going to do it no no no
so every time I shared my
dream I asked the people here and all
they told me why not then I started
realize that as they were people
realistic
maybe they were right today you’re crazy a
trip around the world can not be
possible that is happening to you but
then already when I walked like that
he gave me the down they think me
find a person who lives in the
zone
there it goes
here is the comfort zone but I gave myself
account that there was a place where you
you can also be called the
zone
wait, do not try to guess and you know
why because nobody told you that
there is another place you have sold as the
promised land the comfort zone and you
you want to arrive and crush you here
you know why because you were
teaching since childhood that if you are afraid
and besides you will lose your security as
then it’s crazy then what is
what happens I begin to discover that
here they start to tell me he hears alessi to
puzzles that you’re going to be the first to
turn it around good know it only with
with a good partner does not matter but
what will you do for the first time Yes
hey how can we do to help you
tell me what to do I do not know how much
cost but then let’s see what we do
and then I start to ponder and
I begin to imply that the term
around the world if it could be possible
then I realize that the reason
main principle with which I had
what to give is to make that trip was for
tell the people there that things do
can be achieved
the issue is that like most of the
people I repeat here they grow in the area
of comfort remain in the area of
comfort and die in the comfort zone
they get married and they tattoo two concepts
main fear and security the
Most people always me
ask them how did you give them the
return to the world because very simple
change the way you play the game which
I play the game of life and here I started
govern my life and base my
decisions under two concepts
that love does not work with them
and the freedom how that works
listen as well as cheesy not love and the
not freedom but alas will not
you know
but they ask me today to that I see you
as well as that look you do not look like a
common rommel pacheco let’s say no
which one do you want to be the most virtuous
great that has a person who achieves
go around the world by bike very
simple
I am brave
nothing else
I have been and I will be brave and know by
what because I discovered on the trip that the
greatest act of love that can make a
person is an act of value
I discovered there are the things that I discovered
I forgot until the powerpoint I
changed so I’m going to follow the bad
and also I no longer occupy
[Laughs]
and I discovered
that here people believe in God and a life
I learned to stop believing in God
and they know that I learned better to trust
the
I discovered that if I’m scared and I’m
losing security I’m in the zone of
comfort that if I’m acquiring
freedom and everything is based on virtue
of love I’m becoming a man
brave
then discover also that here the
people always misunderstand the game
because because here they teach you that the
comfort zone is an acz is an act of
to those in the area
comfort are always doing something and you
I give and I give and I give and I give
and those of us who are on this side always
we are being something with s not with h here
it is done and here it is
here people work to leave
inheritance and here people work for
leave legacies
then I start to travel I start to
mess with all this kind of people
start to like this kind of life and
I said hey what father be alex gonzález and
apart from riding a bicycle which is what
I like it a lot because I want to do the
trip started the journey with $ 80
and the company of one of a friend who
decide to live it
the adventure with me and the day of the
exit the first pedal I get the
chain
then those of the area of
comfort because they are afraid and not
they want to lose their security that you think
they said do not let them go they go to
die
let’s stop to see authorities no more
prepared I said good with 80 dollars
I think I can go around the world
why because I know
and because I’m brave
then I begin to pedra I put the
chain started to come out and I start to the
crossing
45 thousand 446 thousand thousand 350 cities 80
budget dollars
well in yuma 66 miles from here good
here a little more
well I already had half
a person is approaching tell me today to
where are you going because behind that little flag or is
that as it was the first day I say so
I’m going to mexicali excellent you’re
about 100 kilometers away
and I ‘m good that I’m going for this
side and I want to get here
and I do not know him then if I’m going to go
over here, yes, yes, yes, I am going to arrive
on that side mexicalli you know that you
missed a shit then
but as here as here we
we are always changing so that
people here fulfill the dreams they believe
what did the guy know that álex me
you inspire, you move with wit
enthusiasm and therefore put your hands
there and start taking 25 coins
cents was what they stripped me of the
casino but hopefully they will serve you for dinner
you gave and I start receiving money and
I start receiving help
before going on a trip from a list
of people that I knew lived here
or that I thought they lived here I wanted
know them but I did not know him like when
I start to share it with people about
everything with the media I
they said alex are you crazy how do you think
that you will be able to be kings of Spain
King of Morocco with football players
basketball players like michael jordan like
entrepreneurs like bill gates like with
writers like palo coelho how are you going to
arrive with a marc be gentle with a
bernach and not the winner of the tour of
france like a miguel indurain five
times winner of the tour de france how
you’re going to get with them you do not know how and
the thing is that most people
who lives here always wants a because
he is always looking for answers and
we who are on this side
we are always finding in the for
what defining the why
then I start to travel and start
transform lives around the trip and
I begin to realize things
fantastic things that do not happen here
but they start to happen to me here
I’m going to talk about some
I’m standing in front of the Atlantic Ocean
the first time I saw him in my life how
is associating Atlantic which father came
with arriving and meeting you
happy happy a man came and tells me
and what are you doing here today is that I
like the park to spend this here in
the night I’m traveling the world and
I am this and this is because I like the place
it seems a safe place you are the
watchman sir the one of the park not then it is
that you did not really get into a park
you are in my mansion I
but it’s good that a lot here is
sure good you look like a man of
well I think you better stay here what
are you doing going around the world
Excellent
I wish we could all know the world
slowly as you know it I know
many parts of the world
but if it would be interesting that I
tell to see we go well account account
and a great friendship begins
I pass through Washington and the embassy
says Mr. ambassador you have a
invitation to visit the white house
to see if he has the opportunity to greet the
president of usa
I have to say hello and I put it on the list
a popcorn I pass to the fertilizer and I am
participate in the organization of
united nations study the organization
of the American states came to
chicago and I find that it came
exactly that when they are playing in
that one then a final of the bulls
against -utah jazz and it’s my turn to meet
Michael Jordan
and michael jordan in front of me tells me
álex let me tell you something because I
I was paralyzed to see so great
character not
I think it’s easier to throw him
of three points missing two tenths for
to finish the game that try to give the
back to the world I congratulate you
this side
the same thing that the president told me
we continue trip from diego to detroit
michigan is although the grand prize of
troy and there I know three people who
they were on my list and that I did not know
how I was going to meet them but in some
I was going to find them in the world
newman walter payton the greatest
american football racer
and mario andretti
came to him and the organization of the
sky sailors invites me to launch the
first ball in a match of the
sailors from Seattle and I know a bill
gates
and the first thing that asks me what system
operative you use in the laptop I imagine
that betrays microsoft laptop sir by
supposed
[Laughs]
because he knew very well what was
good product and nobody won me to sell
Around the world as I did
low that comes the oil goes this
money and so generate what is a
money for the east
I am 20 km from the airport in
vancouver to continue my trip through japan
and I find a Japanese that turns out
that the owner of one of the brands that
we were carrying on the bicycle
and that makes me the best question that
you can make a cyclist know which one is
you ask me what you ate and you know with the
answer no
this does not always work
we took the flight to japan and we started
our journey through the Far East
Japan and North Korea kilometer
of 18,000 I got tired
It was the first time I wanted to be in
this side because I was tired
and they know that I realized that here in the
comfort zone we are
used to giving excuses and I already
I was preparing my excuse to
relax and return to baja california
and it said ok no place around the world
but nobody of mexicalli nor of low
california has come up safely in
I ‘m going to make a chingón
from my city
and just a wool is going to me
applaud
but then I started to remember that from
this side we do not give excuses
nothing else results
maybe because it ‘s easy to give results of
this side because it ‘s a matter of being
here is a matter of doing
so I do not know one that is so
failed to entrust him
you know that all he wants is for
be yourself and fail can not
fail to be you the detail is that no
we know that we do not know therefore if
we do not know we do not know we’re never going to
get here we are going to stay with the
idea that coming to the area of
comfort reach the sky reach the
promised land I made it like when
they give you the base in a job
like when you want unionized
chingaste way
Do I make myself clear
but you’re going to be stuck in one place
beautiful but nothing grows here
then when you listen to stories
extraordinary people who make them
here being ordinary the first thing that
he says is that guy is lying to me
chubby who is standing in the is that you
is going to go around the world
Of course not, but what they do not understand is
that what counts here does not count
here it does not matter what you’re doing
here does not count your likes here do not count
that’s also not how popular you are
here if it counts that but here not here all
will come at a time just when
reach your level of excellence such everything
will arrive when it has to arrive and what
I discovered the passage of the
kilometers during the crossing in the
kilometer 18,000 I tell them look at me I was
tired and jo letón that pedaling more
fast because here is one minute
and I said I’m going to split
at the moment the bicycle and I start
think that I only have to
pedal 120 kilometers to get to
seoul and relax I happen in miracle and
as I am an eternal eternal convinced
of the power of prayer because I was
waiting for a signal and that day happened to me
Korean comes up to tell me he was
I was there in his house I say to camps
my age and he starts whistling the anthem
in joy
and in that feeling of that letter so
beautiful and inspiring I start to cry in
this journey and I begin to realize
what I was doing was that I
they were inviting me to stay here
after that I keep pedaling
the gobi desert that is the desert
largest in the world
a series of miracles happen to me
the Himalayas thirty-something degrees
below zero
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq
turkey greece and greece warn me that
I break the world’s biggest tractor
distance made by bicycle when not
it was not even my intention to do it
I become the best in the world in
something
700 km before arriving in Rome managed
put the dove to the number 1 that he had
in the list and receive an email
electronic that said
dear excellent ambassador
alejandro gonzález or me
allow me to inform you of that superiority
that the Vatican state has agreed that
you have a private encounter with your
sanctity the Pope Juan Pablo second
and I start to cry
was that I wanted to thank you
This time of life
and pedal and until now without knowing how
waiting to do something with the things that
they happen because here people always
is asking God to make something happen
and you are asking and you are asking
but here I understood what to do
something with the things that happen
to meet his holiness for firm
It was wonderful
after one year four months and ten
days concludes a round the world the
first that is registered I
I still do not know someone who does
I wish there were many
and I realized that the world is a place
wonderful that the world is a place in
where you can choose to be with a
same scenario here or you can be here
the important thing is that you follow two
basic principles and right now I ‘m going
to share to finish with my
participation
If you feel fear and you are losing
security
If you are avoiding fear, thank you
in the comfort zone you will not go to the
hell if you stay here
it’s just two places where you can
to be
but if you want to know the biggest
vision that you have ever conceived of
even if you are afraid to imagine it because
It is a basic ingredient to understand
A dream is really to say that you
be inviting inspiring obligndo
hauling teo dragging is that you
become a better person
Welcome to the magic zone because here
you will discover the most the biggest
vision that you have ever conceived of
you and as here the ego no longer counts
the state of the full being then you will have
been like all the great leaders who
they told me you’ll have been on the other side
I wish I wish the movie hopefully
everything we do comes to you and in this
moment still touched your heart by
please I ask you not to think no more
I want you to feel and understand that the
magical zone is an area where you
You must be someday I hope it’s like that
thank you very much to you
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