Name: Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T20:52:42.000Z
Duration: 11 min 15 s
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Being able to navigate is an extraordinary gift,

and there is nothing like it in the world.

The comparative

I get no more sense of satisfaction greater than leaving a port

and knowing that I can get my team and my boat

maybe three, four, five, six thousand miles away.

and it is the ultimate opportunity to be you,

You are naked in front of your peers on a boat.

I mean, you are literally up against each other,

The greatest moment for me when I'm sailing

and just you and the boat and the elements.

I wish everyone could experience this at least once in their lives.

and what do we do to get to the other side.

So the question I get asked the most when I go and do talks

is "How do you become an ocean-racing sailor?"

And I've always wanted to say "I had a vision,

and one thing I'm really anxious for people to know about me

is that my life hasn't gone from A to B --

because how many people can say their lives just go from A to B;

they think, "I'm going to do this," and they go and do it?

And the truth is that I was expelled from school when I was 15 years old,

and my long-suffering headmaster sent a long-suffering note

basically saying that if Tracy darkens these doors of the school again,

"Darling, education is not for everyone."

And then she gave me the best piece of advice anyone has ever given me.

She said, "Every single one of us is good at something,

you just have to go and find what that is."

And at the age of 16, she let me go backpacking off to Greece.

I ended up working on boats, which was OK --

17 years old, didn't really know what I wanted to do,

my skipper said to me, "Can you navigate?"

And he said, "Don't you think you should be able to navigate?

This day, for me, was the day that my whole life started.

It opened up avenues and opportunities to me that I could never have imagined.

I actually managed to get a ride on a Whitbread Round the World Race boat.

and it was the longest nine months of my life.

I realized that there were 230 crew in this race,

I think the second most profound thought in my entire life was:

"No man is ever going to allow me to be a navigator on their boat, ever."

there's only been two female navigators that haven't been on an all-female cruise,

That was the moment I thought, "I've got something to fight for."

And I had no idea that I wanted to have this fight,

and it was something that I took to like a duck to water.

I discovered things about myself that I had no idea existed.

And it became not just about me wanting to navigate on a boat

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Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards

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