If you have a business idea to insist until it succeeds | Pavlos Evmorfidis | TEDxAlexandroupolis

My speech depends, is fueled, is triggered by my interlocutor’s speech. I do not have prefabricated, ready-made truths, and every speech I try to make it look more like Socratic obstetrics rather than a revelation of truth from the seat of authority. One I know that I know nothing, as the teacher used to say and any knowledge is conquered on the road and on the move, burns your quadriceps, pulls your soul, drips sweat, makes life a bicycle.

The naked abundance of the Laconian field is my birthplace. I have an everlasting yearning for knowledge but I pride myself only for knowledge that cannot be taught. I am insatiable for new travels, which makes me supremely rich. My wisdom is the price for my mistakes. One companion, four children, my brother and a handful of friends are the source of my inexhaustible inspiration.

I long to reach out for the unknown and for everything that resists it’s unravelling. I have been walking this world for more than half a century being constantly at war with tallow until I transform myself into pure energy. COCO-MAT is merely a stop in my life’s journey.

My destination is the salty taste of seaweed in my mouth, the shaking of the leaves at noon, the gasp of my lungs when I try to climbthat steep road, the love that blooms between two quadriceps and two bicycle wheels, the bursting laugh in the dead of night

The naked abundance of the Laconian field.

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