The secret of leaving your comfort zone | Nono Konopka | TEDxDornbirn

[harishv]

This dude is a visionary. You are truly a living legend.

All the way from India!!

[katherine_art]

Wow! I cried. Thank you. I need it for today. I believe in myself more and more.

[ЕленаХавдилан]

I think his belief and his dream is so awesome. If u relaxing by loving others you are jus cool and you are good one

[cemlarge]

I feel you!
Thank you Nono for leaving your comfort zone and sharing your experience with us.
It is time to focus on something bigger to leave it.

[dmsmek]

I am so glad to have come across your talk. You truly are a courageous soul. Bless your heart. Wow!!

[arlinegeorge]

Leave your comfort zone and make all your dreams come true. Thank you so so much. bless you. All your dreams come true. Believe in yourself.

[Ankiankianki]

Still amazed by your project, you guys should be extremely proud of yourselves!
Love this ted talk, keep on going I am super excited to see whats next for you. I think you started something big!
Greetings from Venlo 😊

[cliffhngr]

Nono you are my inspiration, I saw Max’s and your Netflix Film, I read your book and I will surely leave my comfort zone for my next dream - thanx a lot for everything and given me back the hope to believe in humanity and social media😂👍🙏

[fourbirdstos]

I loved the power of this experience. Thank you. I have been inspired.

[mdnasimhasan]

What you've achieved is way way greater than your speech.

[nikhilghatnekar]

I Keep coming back to this talk, only to be disappointed at the number of views this video has.

[kimberlydavis]

Absolutely beautiful talk and incredibly inspiring! Thank you for your resilience and commitment and for sharing your story with all of us. I will be sharing this for sure!

[sash]

In case you guys don't know: he didn't actually do all this by himself, even though after watching this you could think so. Almost every time he refers only to himself talking about his journey, the "I" would actually have to be a "we". His friend Max wasn't even mentioned by name.
Quote: "I don't make my dreams about me. I make them about something bigger than me."
If I counted correctly, he says "I" 166 times, "my" 40x, "me" 19x and "myself" 10x. The pronoun "we", on the other hand, he only uses 8 times, "us" 4x, "our" 5x and "ourselves" 2x.
I know I am a nerd for having counted this, but it struck me. Especially with his main message being: "It is our turn to include others into our dreams and make life about more than ourselves." I think you could take that quote more literally. And that's 2 out of a total of 5 times "our" and 1 out of 2 "ourselves" right in that one sentence. Stunning.

[furrosama]

This is very inspiring man. Haha i like how at the end he says that he doesnt wanna go on the bike again

[elkewatson]

Nono, I've watched this video after I saw Biking Borders just earlier. You and Max were exuding such a lovely friendship, a special bond, I found you both so entirely endearing. Ambassadors of what could be. I'm a long distance cyclist myself, and as a solo woman rider (in my mid 50s) I understand the challenges, fears and the elation of being on the road. I cried tears of joy and longing to return to the road, when I saw some of those glorious scenes with you and Max riding through the desert feeling as alive as you so unmistakably did.
That you have practically cancelled him out of your story now is truly a disappointment. I was enthralled by the dynamic of you two. It was much bigger than even the fundraiser. It was sublime in the way you were there for each other in vulnerable moments. When he comforted you following the breakup, or when you needed help with your bike fixes. I'm baffled, if I'm honest, and didn't watch it to the end.

[osirusj]

Actually the challenge sounds fun more than discomfort..discomfort is more like holding breath under water..

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[theultimatereductionist]

We all leave our comfort zone when we die. So why leave it sooner?

[osirusj]

So how to leave ur comfort zone, jst choose a challenge normally u wont accept due to discomfort.. Have a hard time understanding his point...

[ThePriWi]

Too much „I“ instead of „we” when it comes to the Biking Borders trip and the school project. Disembracing the worth of deep friendship. How can you ignore the part of Max and how he helped you through. – It really sounds like you did this trip all alone, all by yourself. So much about leaving EGO behind.