Xavier Rosset, adventurer, Verbier, who lived for 300 days on a desert island, answered to the question in French: “What percentage of ideas did you actually carry out on your island?”. He says he could have done much more because the only limit was his imagination. It’s a question of motivation, will power and need. But it was hard so he just fulfilled his basic needs like finding something to eat and to drink, building a hut and a bench in front of the sea, or digging a hole to catch a wild pig. You don’t need to carry out every idea. What is important is to go where you have to go and carry out whatever you want.
His site www.xavierrosset.com. Xavier Rosset ended his career as a professional snowboarder in 2007.
The interview was made at TEDxGeneva, Monday 7 December 2009. Program of TEDxGeneva 2009.
The speakers were François Bugnion, Louis Palmer, Robert Klapisch, Jan-Mathieu Donnier, Frederic Kaplan, Guillaume Massard, Michael Doser, Bruno Giussani, François-Xavier Tanguy, Claude Marshall and Xavier Rosset. Organised by Yves Bennaim.
