The Risk of Playing It Safe | Shoin Wolfe | TEDxRoppongi

Shoin Wolfe left his life at a venture capital company to pursue his multiple passions. Now, he wants to show you why taking the safe path in life is not always the path to a satisfying life. Through personal experience of turning work-induced depression around by leaving his job and striving towards his passions, Shoin discovered that Joseph Cambell's “Hero’s Journey”, a narrative pattern that the most famous tales of fiction follow, is also exactly how we come to grow in real life.

Shoin Wolfe explores how taking gutsy risks is the best path to a satisfying life. He is an entrepreneur, writer, and designer by day, and a professional DJ by night. Shoin Wolfe left his life at a venture capital company to pursue his multiple passions. Now, he wants to show you why taking the safe path in life is not always the path to a satisfying life. Through personal experience of turning work-induced depression around by leaving his job and striving towards his passions, Shoin discovered that Joseph Cambell's “Hero’s Journey”, a narrative pattern that the most famous tales of fiction follow, is also exactly how we come to grow in real life.

[blainefiasco]

It's so interesting hearing how deadly playing safe is.

[pandufirebolt]

Great speech won my like with dragon ball z reference :P

[wehiird]

Who are our modern-day heroes?
Spongebob?
Floridaman?
Tesla?

Every hero I can think of has at least one thing people can point out that they did wrong. Spongebob, for instance, isn't even real!

[Sara]

Yikes.

Clearly this guy is taking a lot more risks than me because he's been employed.

Wow he was also trying to be proactive about his depressive thoughts?

[t.t.]

Kid quits his job after working two years and finding it hard. Not worthy of a tedtalk. Probably only got to do this because he is one of the few in the pool of candidates who could speak English in the area.