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Erik: How did you recover from a major break-up in your life to re-shape your emotions from
despair and disappointment to hope and opportunity?
Maurizio: I am lucky enough to not to have known a lot of despair but I am also lucky
enough to have experienced the disappointment of things not working my way. I actually owe
what I am doing today, the courage of making the decision to a disappointment. Something
that my friend, Jakob Algreen-Ussing, would define the dark line of the soul. I wasn't
very happy anymore with what I was doing and I was trying to understand why. I was respecting
everybody at GE for what they were doing but I started feeling it wasn't what I should
be doing. I wasn't that happy anymore on Monday mornings and normally I'm happy go lucky.
And then I fell in love with a girl and it was a little complicated. I tried it out and
I crashed and burned like a 15 year old because I had never fallen in love before which is
sad because I was 37 it was not like 20. And but that somehow turned in to something really
good because it was the first time I suffered for love, I'm almost ashamed of saying, but
it also put me in a position to reflect really hard and say what am I doing here? It threw
me to the bottom and when you bottom you can also push back up and you can really go for
what you want. And I realized look I've been doing the best with what was coming my way
all my life and I was lucky because I was I guess fortunate enough to make something
out of these things that were coming my way. But maybe this is time to go for what I want
really? And I started taking the perspective that one day I will look at my life look back
at it and it will look like a movie. It will look like one of those movies where you want
to take the protagonist and shake him, like take his neck and go come on do something.
What's your excuse not to act on the things that matter to you? And I figured you know
one day I will want to think that I've made a significant change or I've tried and failed
which is okay but not trying will let me think -- feeling like I didn't really take responsibility
for my life. I didn't take any action. You know this was not from a higher inspiration,
it was literally almost thinking where is the fun if I don't try something that looks
almost impossible. Where is the adventure in this movie? It's going to be boring.