Alex Dijk

Global soul, Startup, Writer/Editor

Spent a long time living up to the promise I represented to others. Fortunately as of late I found my own home in the search for it. Thus freed from all the struggles that weren't mine, I can now fully concentrate on a 'struggle' of my own choice: storytelling.

writing.

It's where we place both end and beginning, by which we fix what's in between.

Editing & Writing, Journalism, Marketing Communications, Portraiture Photography, Singer and Songwriter

A very important person entered my life in March, 2009. A 'Free Radical' that I was shocked to recognise as such, on account of my similarity to her. We met, danced, sung, talked and exchanged ideas. There was no shame, no restriction, no competition, only freedom. Through talking to each other in such a way we got to talk to ourselves and I think we both were incredibly thrilled about the exiting things we had to say. You know how when these encounters happen the whole world seems to adapt to your experience? How everything fits in so meaningfully that it seems highly unlikely that chance is beyond your control? TED was just another part of that world falling into place. Masha showed me Sir Ken Robinson's criticism on education as being counter-productive of creativity, and we both discovered Emily Levine's theory of everything. This is how TED came to be an integral part of the renewed state of constant amazement and enthusiasm I'm rediscovering myself in.