I think there is something common
between your mom and my mom I remember
as a child whenever I used to go out
alone my mom used to call me Praveen
come here
listen carefully you are traveling alone
make sure son you don’t speak to
strangers don’t trust them
I would have died with this believed
until I decided to become a solo
traveler not just because I’ve traveled
solo that doesn’t mean that I don’t work
in my life around IT company I founded
this company six years ago but then I
realized even if you are doing the
world’s most creative job but if you are
doing it again and again every day it is
still monotonous and why not any kills
so to kill the monotony in my life I
decided to become a solo traveler but my
solo travel is interesting are some
simple rules for my solo travel example
if I’m traveling in India I spend only
300 rupees per day which includes my
straight travel food everything so I’m
hungry I sit down neck if I’m tired I
just lie down and whenever I’m ready to
move there is always someone to pick me
up absolutely free or to me this is
absolute comfort but there is something
else I do to make my solo trip more
interesting more special I play a game
with strangers because in this kind of
solo trips you meet strangers I have
given name to this game and the name of
the game is game of trust because in
solo trips sometimes we meet some
strangers and when you meet them your
heart your body your soul with screen
the words of your mother don’t trust
this stranger but in this game I have to
do exactly opposite I have to trust I
played this game 24 times in my life
let me share three episodes with you
today let me take you to Shawn Tina Kate
eastern part of India I was going there
from Kolkata to portray and I was
sitting in the train enjoying my tea and
suddenly someone came from behind tapped
my shoulder hey where are you going
I said I’m going to shunt indicator he
said don’t go – Anthony get and go to
Sri indicating I said I never heard this
place he said there’s some festival
going on there I said okay I will see
and then he disappeared I raised the
station I was outside the station and I
noticed some
shouting excuse me I’m going to shrink
it and will you come with me now in my
solo trip anything offered free gets
automatic precedence or everything I
decided to set with him then we
exchanged some views on thoughts and
then we reached Shree negate them and I
know this is extremely remote area and
he said Praveen where are you staying
tonight I said I have no idea I’m a solo
traveler and then he said I’d have
married and for a moment I thought is
this a follow-up question or a connected
or standalone question then he started
pitching his tent and then instead
probably I don’t mind sharing my tent
with you and I was standing there like a
fool I said Praveen come on he has
fooled you right from the Train he has
misguided you you have a bag we have
gadgets you have laptop what if he does
something wrong with that oh wait a
minute
what if we do something wrong with me is
that the reason he asked me I remarried
or not Merritt and my heart my body my
soul started this screaming the words of
my mother don’t trust this stranger and
very next moment I decided to trust
because I was being a trust came I
decided to stay with him so what
happened next
I will tell you wait let me take you to
another place gokon near goa beautiful
place it was around 10 p.m. raining very
heavily too dark now is struggling for
the stay wherever I was going they were
saying are you traveling alone
we don’t give stay to those people who
travel alone surprisingly beyond my
understanding I’m traveling alone not
with a girl come on
and then I reached one guesthouse four
rooms on the top
all four were locked one uncle was
sitting down wearing white color shirt I
assume he’s the owner of the guesthouse
and before he say no to me I said uncle
why they are not giving stair to those
who are travelling alone and he said
just few days ago person like you
checked in in one guesthouse and
committed suicide police came and the
cancel the license of that guesthouse
I said sad but why the cancel the light
of that guesthouse he said police is
suspecting murder during this
conversation I could able to convince
him for the room and then I was just
going up using staircase all lady
shouted from behind excuse me when I
turned back what scared ladies pardon my
language but that lady was not looking
beautiful that day and she said this is
your water bottle there’s no water in
the room I noticed there’s no water in
my bag also I was sitting in the room
and when you have just listened the
words like murder society police it is
enough to increase the adrenaline level
in your body to make you feel now wasn’t
skeptical about everything in the world
and I started feeling praveen you are at
the wrong place at the wrong time and
maybe the wrong thing in your hand that
water bottle maybe they’ve added
something in this what if they have
added something wait a minute
is do the same guest house where murder
happened or is the same room and my
heart my body my soul started screaming
the words of my mother
pravin don’t trust this stranger don’t
drink this water a very next moment I
decided to drink that water because I
was playing a trust game and I have to
trust so what happened next I will tell
you wait let me take you to call animal
Asia Australian Metro and suddenly my
eyes got locked on one beautiful
stranger now you travel anywhere in the
world this is the easiest way to start
conversation with any stranger just do
this you got a smile vibe start the
conversation and god I got smiled back
and during the conversation she asked so
where are we going Praveen I said I am
going to a station called cyber Jaya and
from there I might go to one University
she said but that university is far away
from the station I said and she said how
you will go I said have a manager my
solo travel I will take a lift and she
said don’t worry prevent my husband is
coming to pick me up we will drop you
there because we are going that side of
me I was pleasantly surprised
husband came I opened the car
i sat inside the car and then we had
good discussion with the husband
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university came they dropped me and
whenever just moving husband said wait
where are you eating tonight I said I
have no ideas I will see ok what time
you are closing your work here I said
around 10 o’clock ok do one thing give
me a call around 10 o’clock I will pick
you from here I was so happy I went to
the University enjoy the after a long
tour I came back and I reached her Here
I am at the same place and I thought let
me try the mobile number of my new
Malaysian friend I danced a number but
it went on samalisha an automated system
I thought maybe he is busy
so again after 10 to 15 mins again I
dialed the number it was again on
automated Malaysian systems I give it to
someone else and he said hey sir someone
is giving give me the wrong number this
number doesn’t exist it was 10:30 oh
wait a minute he has my number
so he will call me 10:45 11 o’clock and
then I said no my heart my body my soul
again started screaming the words of my
mother Praveen come on don’t be a fool
just out of curiosity someone asked you
for the food doesn’t mean you stop here
like it in a 1 o’clock don’t trust that
stranger he’s not going to come back but
when he next moment I decided to trust
because I was playing a trust game so
what happened next
what happened next in all these episodes
ladies and gentlemen that day enshrining
eaten in that tent I met a friend a
friend of my lifetime
he’s a soulful singer and whole night we
were just singing and dancing the same
lady was not looking beautiful in the
night knocked the door in the morning I
opened the door and she said son will
you take tea or coffee around 11 o’clock
she called me my new friend from
Malaysia I said hey Robin
I was still working you’re waiting for
your car I saved his number incorrectly
and that day Oh stranger from Malaysia
invited a stranger from India at his
home for dinner and stay I played this
game twenty four times ladies and
gentleman and 22 times I won but what
what does a win means to me or what this
win means to be all it means that if I
had not changed my belief towards
strangers my approach towards strangers
I would have not trusted more than 96%
people in my life who are trustworthy I
mean I don’t trust people who don’t make
relationship it means I would have lost
opportunity to build a relationship with
more than 96% what a big loss for an
individual the simple innovation in my
belief helping me to build relationship
with strangers wait a minute
when I said strangers I’m not talking
about some strange people I meet on the
road the strangers everywhere the
strangers in the class that strange in
the office speak to them trust and make
relationship that strangers near home
maybe your neighborhood maybe they’re
strangers inside your home speak to them
trust them make relationship I know few
of you might be thinking come on
Praveen be practical there hasn’t bad
people on this planet of course there
are they are so bad as if they don’t
belong to this planet they belong to
some dark dirty planet that’s so bad but
can I ask you a question when was the
last time you met the bad person in your
life how many of you know a murderer
personally or a rapist personally or
even a pickpocket or personally there
are bad people but they are very less
and just because of the these few bad
people that’s not the whole world suffer
because world is full of people like you
good people
that’s why when I send my son to
mountains he loves mountains last for
years every every year almost for 10 to
15 days he goes to Himalayan mountain
without parents but when he was going
last year I said son come here listen
very carefully you are travelling alone
make sure you speak to strangers
trust them make relationships thank you [Applause]
between your mom and my mom I remember
as a child whenever I used to go out
alone my mom used to call me Praveen
come here
listen carefully you are traveling alone
make sure son you don’t speak to
strangers don’t trust them
I would have died with this believed
until I decided to become a solo
traveler not just because I’ve traveled
solo that doesn’t mean that I don’t work
in my life around IT company I founded
this company six years ago but then I
realized even if you are doing the
world’s most creative job but if you are
doing it again and again every day it is
still monotonous and why not any kills
so to kill the monotony in my life I
decided to become a solo traveler but my
solo travel is interesting are some
simple rules for my solo travel example
if I’m traveling in India I spend only
300 rupees per day which includes my
straight travel food everything so I’m
hungry I sit down neck if I’m tired I
just lie down and whenever I’m ready to
move there is always someone to pick me
up absolutely free or to me this is
absolute comfort but there is something
else I do to make my solo trip more
interesting more special I play a game
with strangers because in this kind of
solo trips you meet strangers I have
given name to this game and the name of
the game is game of trust because in
solo trips sometimes we meet some
strangers and when you meet them your
heart your body your soul with screen
the words of your mother don’t trust
this stranger but in this game I have to
do exactly opposite I have to trust I
played this game 24 times in my life
let me share three episodes with you
today let me take you to Shawn Tina Kate
eastern part of India I was going there
from Kolkata to portray and I was
sitting in the train enjoying my tea and
suddenly someone came from behind tapped
my shoulder hey where are you going
I said I’m going to shunt indicator he
said don’t go – Anthony get and go to
Sri indicating I said I never heard this
place he said there’s some festival
going on there I said okay I will see
and then he disappeared I raised the
station I was outside the station and I
noticed some
shouting excuse me I’m going to shrink
it and will you come with me now in my
solo trip anything offered free gets
automatic precedence or everything I
decided to set with him then we
exchanged some views on thoughts and
then we reached Shree negate them and I
know this is extremely remote area and
he said Praveen where are you staying
tonight I said I have no idea I’m a solo
traveler and then he said I’d have
married and for a moment I thought is
this a follow-up question or a connected
or standalone question then he started
pitching his tent and then instead
probably I don’t mind sharing my tent
with you and I was standing there like a
fool I said Praveen come on he has
fooled you right from the Train he has
misguided you you have a bag we have
gadgets you have laptop what if he does
something wrong with that oh wait a
minute
what if we do something wrong with me is
that the reason he asked me I remarried
or not Merritt and my heart my body my
soul started this screaming the words of
my mother don’t trust this stranger and
very next moment I decided to trust
because I was being a trust came I
decided to stay with him so what
happened next
I will tell you wait let me take you to
another place gokon near goa beautiful
place it was around 10 p.m. raining very
heavily too dark now is struggling for
the stay wherever I was going they were
saying are you traveling alone
we don’t give stay to those people who
travel alone surprisingly beyond my
understanding I’m traveling alone not
with a girl come on
and then I reached one guesthouse four
rooms on the top
all four were locked one uncle was
sitting down wearing white color shirt I
assume he’s the owner of the guesthouse
and before he say no to me I said uncle
why they are not giving stair to those
who are travelling alone and he said
just few days ago person like you
checked in in one guesthouse and
committed suicide police came and the
cancel the license of that guesthouse
I said sad but why the cancel the light
of that guesthouse he said police is
suspecting murder during this
conversation I could able to convince
him for the room and then I was just
going up using staircase all lady
shouted from behind excuse me when I
turned back what scared ladies pardon my
language but that lady was not looking
beautiful that day and she said this is
your water bottle there’s no water in
the room I noticed there’s no water in
my bag also I was sitting in the room
and when you have just listened the
words like murder society police it is
enough to increase the adrenaline level
in your body to make you feel now wasn’t
skeptical about everything in the world
and I started feeling praveen you are at
the wrong place at the wrong time and
maybe the wrong thing in your hand that
water bottle maybe they’ve added
something in this what if they have
added something wait a minute
is do the same guest house where murder
happened or is the same room and my
heart my body my soul started screaming
the words of my mother
pravin don’t trust this stranger don’t
drink this water a very next moment I
decided to drink that water because I
was playing a trust game and I have to
trust so what happened next I will tell
you wait let me take you to call animal
Asia Australian Metro and suddenly my
eyes got locked on one beautiful
stranger now you travel anywhere in the
world this is the easiest way to start
conversation with any stranger just do
this you got a smile vibe start the
conversation and god I got smiled back
and during the conversation she asked so
where are we going Praveen I said I am
going to a station called cyber Jaya and
from there I might go to one University
she said but that university is far away
from the station I said and she said how
you will go I said have a manager my
solo travel I will take a lift and she
said don’t worry prevent my husband is
coming to pick me up we will drop you
there because we are going that side of
me I was pleasantly surprised
husband came I opened the car
i sat inside the car and then we had
good discussion with the husband
reactions viewers reaction stories
reactions are movin lumbers and the
university came they dropped me and
whenever just moving husband said wait
where are you eating tonight I said I
have no ideas I will see ok what time
you are closing your work here I said
around 10 o’clock ok do one thing give
me a call around 10 o’clock I will pick
you from here I was so happy I went to
the University enjoy the after a long
tour I came back and I reached her Here
I am at the same place and I thought let
me try the mobile number of my new
Malaysian friend I danced a number but
it went on samalisha an automated system
I thought maybe he is busy
so again after 10 to 15 mins again I
dialed the number it was again on
automated Malaysian systems I give it to
someone else and he said hey sir someone
is giving give me the wrong number this
number doesn’t exist it was 10:30 oh
wait a minute he has my number
so he will call me 10:45 11 o’clock and
then I said no my heart my body my soul
again started screaming the words of my
mother Praveen come on don’t be a fool
just out of curiosity someone asked you
for the food doesn’t mean you stop here
like it in a 1 o’clock don’t trust that
stranger he’s not going to come back but
when he next moment I decided to trust
because I was playing a trust game so
what happened next
what happened next in all these episodes
ladies and gentlemen that day enshrining
eaten in that tent I met a friend a
friend of my lifetime
he’s a soulful singer and whole night we
were just singing and dancing the same
lady was not looking beautiful in the
night knocked the door in the morning I
opened the door and she said son will
you take tea or coffee around 11 o’clock
she called me my new friend from
Malaysia I said hey Robin
I was still working you’re waiting for
your car I saved his number incorrectly
and that day Oh stranger from Malaysia
invited a stranger from India at his
home for dinner and stay I played this
game twenty four times ladies and
gentleman and 22 times I won but what
what does a win means to me or what this
win means to be all it means that if I
had not changed my belief towards
strangers my approach towards strangers
I would have not trusted more than 96%
people in my life who are trustworthy I
mean I don’t trust people who don’t make
relationship it means I would have lost
opportunity to build a relationship with
more than 96% what a big loss for an
individual the simple innovation in my
belief helping me to build relationship
with strangers wait a minute
when I said strangers I’m not talking
about some strange people I meet on the
road the strangers everywhere the
strangers in the class that strange in
the office speak to them trust and make
relationship that strangers near home
maybe your neighborhood maybe they’re
strangers inside your home speak to them
trust them make relationship I know few
of you might be thinking come on
Praveen be practical there hasn’t bad
people on this planet of course there
are they are so bad as if they don’t
belong to this planet they belong to
some dark dirty planet that’s so bad but
can I ask you a question when was the
last time you met the bad person in your
life how many of you know a murderer
personally or a rapist personally or
even a pickpocket or personally there
are bad people but they are very less
and just because of the these few bad
people that’s not the whole world suffer
because world is full of people like you
good people
that’s why when I send my son to
mountains he loves mountains last for
years every every year almost for 10 to
15 days he goes to Himalayan mountain
without parents but when he was going
last year I said son come here listen
very carefully you are travelling alone
make sure you speak to strangers
trust them make relationships thank you [Applause]
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