How and why travel transforms you by Francis Tapon at TEDxFillmore
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2012
- Learn more at FrancisTapon.com
In this TEDx Talk, travel author Francis Tapon shares some of his traveling adventures, which include walking across America four times and spending three years visiting all 25 Eastern European countries. He discusses how travel can be a catalyst for transforming your life, giving you insights that are hard or impossible to achieve through other means. He also shares a personal story about his father, who motivated him to keep pursuing his dream of visiting every country in the world.
Speaker's bio: Francis Tapon was born and raised in San Francisco, California and has traveled to over 80 countries. His mom is from Chile and his dad is from France. He co-founded a robotic vision company in Silicon Valley. He consulted at Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2007, he became the first person to do a round trip on the Continental Divide Trail. He's walked across Spain twice. He wrote "Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking Across America." After spending three years in Eastern Europe, he wrote "The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us." He plans to visit all 54 African countries in 2013-2016. He has a degree in Religion from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
My take on this. (70 years old) You can always learn from others. This story was interesting. I learned a lot from all what he said. Thank you for this story.
I just watched this after I did my solo trip to Arizona. A beginner to hiking, I decided to hike the deserts, red rocks and canyons. Totally out of my comfort zone but glad I did it. That trip transformed me in ways I could never even imagine. I did it becoz I was sick and tired of being sick and tired of life... reconnecting with nature, yourself and spiritually looking inward helped me greatly! Thank God.;
He's a really nice person, his soul reflects from his eyes.
the most moving (the kind that gives you chills down your arms) and inspiring TED talk yet. Amazing human being and I am sure so is your father
Thank you. Most helpful in understanding a pilgrimage I strongly consider.
This is a wonderful talk Francis! I really enjoyed it and I passed it along as well.
Hope to see you soon!
Francis, i can't wait to read your travel experiences on your African journey. Goodluck! You probably have completed your journey by now.
It is so great to hear that you did that second hike with Estonian. It is a relatively small country compared to USA. I am from Estonia and just hearing that you made myself feel so warm inside. Cheers from Estonia! :)
Dear God, wonderful stuff. The resonance and vision I feel is wonderful. I pray your journeys go well and am inspired now to keep climbing the mountain. Next stop for me, Spain! I'm sharing this on Facebook right now.
Superb and amazing guy he is. He has much more life experience than even 100 year old. Wow, Travel solo can enlighten and elevate our lives so much!
I going to do trip to Sweden from Ukraine, and this talk more encouraged me to do this. I think that we don't need spend a lot of our time for trip but do it regularly for short period of time in different places, that will be fire your neurons in your brain. Most of time must be spend with you family if you have, if you don't have, you need.
+Mike Englishspiker great! I am from the city on the black sea coast - Odessa - it's the best city in Ukraine! you hould definitely spend some time there)
Thanks so much for posting :)
Great sir, really inspiring 👏💌
Thanks.
great talk, love from Czechia
Wow, thanks for sharing such an emotional story
Muchas gracias, verdaderamente inspirador. No entiendo por que tan pocas visitas si es increible
The last phrase sums it up: YOU WILL BECOME A BETTER PERSON.
wonderful!! inspiring.... :)
inspiring talk
Thanks for sharing the story about your father. I support the right to legal assisted suicide (with counseling and a suitable waiting period). Anyone who has lived their life and is ready to die should not have to go through the mess and pain and uncertainty of a surreptitious suicide. Family and friends should have the chance to say goodbye and celebrate the life of the person who is ready to lay down their burden. I have witnessed too many family members linger in misery for a decade or more.
Not sure how I ended up on this video but its now 2021 and I wonder if you did those other hikes, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Perhaps life took you some other direction. Its great you used hiking to find peace and value in your life's journey.
Thanks Roxanne! I'm leaving in 20 days, so time's running out! :o
Wowww das is amazing !!!!!!!!! Solute !!!!!! Excellent speech :)
Wonderful
One reason I avoid north to south travel (in the northern hemisphere) is it means you have the sun in your eyes more and you are looking into the shadows more.
I travel to be amazed and give praises to God's creation!
Great talk....I'm motivated to go! ...however more realistic for a man to do this way
True, but at least half the planet can be visited as a solo female without too much hassle. God for it!
Gee, thanks for taking time to remind us. Surprise- a man of few words. This has to be the shortest most powerful video on youtube. Now how did I get here on this TED talk about religion? Oh, well, a few minutes, then on to the next Bergman sequel...
I love you Francis :-) wow.
The background music is a bit distracting.
Jody Yoshida Really? That’s the only thing you have to say about the video?
Francis I'd never noticed the resemblance until seeing your side profile in this screenshot for this video, but dude you look like Matthew McConaughey!
Interested nice video
nice
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Great speech. Some people are such a**holes!
Nice talk Francis...maybe a more relaxed pace would give it more feel...and help people to connect more to the talk
Thx, I purposely speak fast because when I'm in the audience, I find that many speakers speak too slowly. I like drinking from a firehose. For example, when I listen to podcasts, I double the playback speed.
But I understand that not everyone likes that. ;)
bro ,noting transforms better than religion
That what you got ----- Single
How do you rate yourself in the scale from 1 to 10 ?
- I rate myself at 11 , dude !
I see to much self-criticism.
OMG is this is a Proselytism talk?
Anna Mur No. The speaker is an agnostic-atheist.
Booring... It just another TED Talks about Me Me Me...
Fiki Firmansyah You can only speak from your own experiences. The best and most genuine talks are people describing their own journey. You can then take lessons from them and apply to your own life. If you find that boring it's because you lack imagination.
Arashau Youre right, Absolutely right. Genuine talks are people who describe their own journey. the thing that i hate is, most of them is too interesting to their journey (self-centered) than give us the meaning to that journey (straight to-the-point) because "how can people spend 1 hours for explanation that another can did it in 5 minutes. *bad-english
he was making a point about how hiking can be informative and shared proof how its changed himself. You wouldn't go to a doctor if he didnt have credentials and experience, would you? lol
@@packman5906 me as teenager did write that sentences, that's the old me. My current opinion now different. Sorry for being rude in the past 😅.
@@FikiFirmansyah yea, with age comes wisdom, as the old saying goes. Peace brother.
I love travel, but not religion. I had to stop at 1:04. You ridiculous man.
I Troll Idiots I almost stopped at that point as well for the same reason. But I'm glad I kept watching. Just ignore that aspect of his personality. It's a good overall talk about travel.
Thanks Ara, will give it another try
I Troll Idiots So what did you think? FYI: The speaker is an agnostic-atheist. Just because he studied religion doesn't mean he is religious. As @Arashau says, the talk is about travel, not religion.
well, when you were 18 did you make perfect choices???? And if anything, he has probably gained perspective on what makes us different. Wow, a bit judgmental, eh?
0:44 "I have a degree in religion"
Aaaand you've lost me.. good bye.
Samurailord Be slower to jump to conclusions. I may have a degree in religion, but I'm an agnostic/atheist. I encourage you to watch more if travel interests you.
I thought similar, but watch it all it's not what you think
We often do things when younger that we think we want to do, but it often just ends up being one of those paths you take when you are young. If anything he learned different religions and not just one, which then would be a bit narrow-minded.