Wow! My first reaction after watching this talk and I couldn’t stop
myself from sharing this talk with you all.
But before I share about this talk let me ask you all few questions!
Don’t you ever feel that you are here for a bigger purpose than just serving a
9-5 job? Won’t you regret your whole life if the death struck you today?
For me this talk by Elora
Hardy made me ask these two basic and profound questions. While in this
talk, she is talking about her life and how she is planning to give back to the
society but somewhere; it would really make you think ‘What are we doing’?
In this talk she elaborates that she had always wanted to be a
designer and at a very young age, she also achieved what she always wanted, but
then the question struck her? And
she left everything and came back to her country, Bali.
Today, she is a creative Director at IBUKU in Bali. IBUKU is a
sustainable construction company, but it is surely not an ordinary sustainable company
because when she decided to start this company she thought about Bali and what
Bali is known for i.e. bamboo. So, IBUKU
is a company, which uses only bamboo for construction. Her
designs are not only creative, but also amazingly innovative.
While
she has not done any course in architecture but her love for this job and her
interest in this has given the whole world a new material to build houses,
restaurants, schools and warehouses. She has also shown that the houses build
using this bamboo are not only sustainable but also durable and beautiful.
Till
now, she has designed a house and now she is working on building a completely
green hotel in Bali using only the bamboo which can provide an avenue for the people to connect with nature.
She wants to do it so that she can show the world the potential of
the bamboo and inspire more people to connect with the bamboo.
But what really make this talk powerful are the three ways she talks about how the human beings get evolved
The
first of these is: -
Drastic change/crises, i.e. when an earthquake strikes or someone dies then your life
takes a drastic different path and this type of evolution is not in anyone’s
control.
Second Reason is
Shift along the society at
society pace:- In this you just keep moving along
the path the whole life while never achieving the satisfaction you always
wanted.
And the final reason is: -
Why you are here today/ What’s get you up in the morning: - It’s
about the stand you take, whether you are prepared for it or not, irrespective
of educational background or anything and that’s what made Elora leave here
successful career and come back to Bali.
I do know that it would be a difficult decision for many of us but
notwithstanding of anything, one day we really have to choose which path we
want to take for our evolution.
Watch her talk at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSQksSlr9c
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