Here are the highlights from Sean Lee-Davies’s chat with Pico Iyer at the Tatler Gen.T Summit
At the Tatler Gen.T Summit, which is taking place in Hong Kong from November 9-10 this year, moderator and CEO of Awethentic Studios Sean Lee-Davies talks to British essayist and novelist Pico Iyer in “Pico Iyer's Path to Presence: New Ways to Thinking, Doing and Leading”
Iyer is the bestselling author of two novels and over a dozen works of nonfiction, including enduring favourites such as The Lady and the Monk (1991) and The Global Soul (2000). He has been embraced by both spiritual seekers and startup entrepreneurs as a beacon of wisdom in a frenetic world. Pico has also given four popular TED Talks over the past decade, which together has amassed more than 11 million views.
Here are some of the highlights from this panel.
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On moving from New York City to Kyoto in his 20s—and the realisations that came with it
“I didn’t want to die feeling like I had never lived. I thought it was better to leave a job when you’re having a good time, rather than in a state of frustration... I’m not saying to Gen.T to leave your jobs... but what I’m saying is, if you could step away from the place that you know... get new angles and round yourself out—there is nothing that is lost.”
On information overload today
“Now, for many of us, the luxury is in getting away [from information]. Everyone here… would take in more data just today than Shakespeare did in a lifetime. Does that mean we’re all wiser than Shakespeare? Probably the opposite.”
