Is Ambition Killing Us? | Tom Savage | TEDxBristol

Why are we more ‘connected’ than ever before, yet so disconnected from the world and the people around us?

Entrepreneur Tom Savage’s talk questions our restless human advancement, examining the tightrope we walk between our drive for industry and achievement, and where it clashes with our instinctual need for peace and contentment.

His quest for simplicity led him to live in a tent in a field for a month prior to giving his TEDxBristol talk. He hoped it would clear his thoughts and help him find out if simplicity could be achieved while running a big data company from a field in Somerset.

This talk is from TEDxBristol 2015 Great Expectations: looking towards a future we can dare to expect more from.

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At 21 Tom Savage set up one of the world's leading non-profit conservation organisations, Blue Ventures, 24 hours from the nearest telephone in southwestern Madagascar.

Since then, he has founded a recruitment business with offices in London and San Francisco, won the Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the European Innovator of the Year award, featured in the Prime Minister's book Everyday Heroes and helped start Tenner, now supported by Sir Richard Branson.

Inspired by Swiss Family Robinson, he also spent a year designing and building an eco-house in a remote part of Kenya and has travelled to over 60 countries, living in half a dozen. Closer to home, Tom now runs an award-winning big data business in Bristol, which he started whilst living in a van in Silicon Valley.

For TEDxBristol he explores some of the head-scratching questions that he thinks many of us secretly ask ourselves every day about why we work so hard, and at what cost?
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