Down to Earth - retrieving our true human potential | Rolf WInters | TEDxZurich

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. "Rolf’s leitmotif in life has been the search for ways to unlock our hidden human potential. Initially his focus was on an individual level. In his thirties he experimented with it in the corporate world on a group and organizational level. After turning forty and having become a father of three, his scope shifted and he became intrigued by the hidden human potential in our society, of humanity as a whole. In their search for essence and to find a new perspective on life Rolf his wife Renata decided to break away from society, together with their children. For five years they lived with different tribal communities around the world. In his talk he will share his insights and will try to answer the following questions:

What happens if you break away from a successful career and comfortable cosmopolitan lifestyle and leave behind everything you ever worked for in exchange for a simple and uncomplicated life in connection with nature? Live life day by day with no plan other than to learn?

What happens to your beliefs and understanding of the world, to your perspective on life, when you expose yourself and your family to the (ab)original communities of the world; those who live a life in balance with the natural world, unaffected by man-made law or man-made religion?

And what is it like to come back into the ‘real world’ after these five years? What is your truth, what are the lessons learnt? And how on earth can you live that truth and apply these lessons in our modern ‘civilized’ world?"

Rolf was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he studied business economics. He enjoyed an international corporate career up till the age of 30. Having experienced the extremes of the corporate spectrum, from a thriving culture to self-destructive one, were elementary in finding his true passion in life: Uncovering our true human potential. He founded a leadership consulting & coaching firm aimed at generating healthy and vibrant entities with a spirit. The unorthodox approach he took paid off and for a decade he worked at boardroom level for some of the largest corporations in the world.

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