TEDxPhnomPenh - Colin Wright - Extreme Lifestyle Experiments

Colin Wright is a 25-year-old serial entrepreneur, minimalist, and blogger who moves to a new country every 4 months based on the votes of his readers. While travelling, Colin starts up new business endeavours, manages his existing projects, and engages in extreme lifestyle experiments—from not wearing black for half a year to going completely paperless—in order to gain new perspective and to inspire others to make positive changes to their lives that might otherwise seem impossible. Colin writes about entrepreneurship, minimalism, and long-term travel at ExileLifestyle.com. "I wish that the knowledge that humanity has amassed could be evenly and universally available to everyone on the planet, allowing more people to have access to the resources that will allow them to contribute to the global conversation, take care of themselves (and others), and pursue further innovation."

TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level.

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[Yacoub Yassin]

Excellent talk but damn what a tough crowd? not one of them laughed ._.

[Natalie Sisson]

Fantastic talk Colin and I so agree. As a Suitcase Entrepreneur who lives my life travelling and running my business while living out of a suitcase I love the minimalist lifestyle. The one where experiences matter way more than stuff and you are richer than many others because of the lifestyle you live and the adventure you choose to live on a daily basis.

[Kuroriification]

"like cut off your arm and get a robot arm..." haha I love this guy

[Michael Jenkins]

yup New Zealand internet suckas alright, there's thing's happening to improve it, but still way behind where ti should be, atleast everything else is nice

[Sean Anonym]

Great talk....I , too, left USA and traveled the world. Amazing journey! He's not only intelligent and creative but gorgeous as well.



[gabejedmo]

I thought he did a pretty dang good job myself. I would have been a heck of a lot more nervous. More important is the information, which is for people to grab their life by the horns and do what they really want to do...rather than getting stuck in a rut and following the societal norms, because they think there are no other options. The options are limitless.

[gabejedmo]

Absolutely!

[gabejedmo]

Right on, good job Colin. Perhaps one benefit of this video is that hopefully New Zealand got their act together by now. :)

[sXeSociety]

is new zealand internet really that bad?

[Yacoub Yassin]

You do have a point :) He is stressed

[gr3gk1]

You need to relax and insert pauses in order to relax your crowd and give them time to laugh. He was SOOO TENSE that few chuckles when people tried to laugh were quickly squandered by his continuing stressful speech.