CURRENT MISSION

Understand others in addition to myself

ABOUT ME

I'm a quiet, shrewd, shy human being. I'm a mechanical designer and I love to see in the real world what I have just imaginated and to see shapeless matter transformed into living mechanics. I would like to work all over Europe.
I work with Indian, English, Dutch, German and French people.
This is why I've no problem at all to host and hang out with people coming from everywhere. I love talking with people very different from me.
I generally trust unknown people.
I love keeping fit with biking, hiking around the nearby Appenini area. I love the Alps.

PHILOSOPHY

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?. (Benjamin Franklin)

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

La felicità ha poco a che fare con le circostanze esterne e con il giudizio degli altri. E' quella appagante sensazione che si prova quando siamo diventati la persona che immaginavamo vividamente di essere. (Davide Conti)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I pay $3 mounthly for this great service!

Hi Davide,
Thank you for all of your donations. They are
appreciated and have helped in making the website more
stable and also in achieving the CS mission.
Cheers,
Casey

2005- joined

2006- HC/CS Meeting in Venice, CS Collective in Vienna

2007- CS Meeting in Bologna, CS Picnic in Bologna, CS Meeting in Parma, LONDON CALLING!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

-My parents for 20 years...

-And I couchsurfed in UK in July 2005, cos my landlord was selling the flat where i was staying. A good person I knew offered me his couch for free to sleep on. After a couple of months, when I came back to Italy, he called me and said: "You know, there's an interesting web site for you, it's C O U C H S U R F I N G . C O M."
We were just 19000 surfers.
Now, here I am!

I'm proud to have hosted:
Eduardo, from Brazil
Swaroop, from India
Laurel, from Canada
Tash, from Australia
Treezy, from New Zealand
Raphael, from Guadeloupe
Saad, from Pakistan
Jimmi, from Jamaica
John, from United Kingdom

Many thanks to all great people I surfed with:
Jimmi, in UK
Sripad, in Denmark
Pramod, in Germany
Stefan, in Austria
Inti, in Italy
Antonio, in Germany

Interests

I love mountain biking (btw, I'm looking for someone interested to go), trekking, nature and cooking!

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Scent of a Woman (1992)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Books:
(Authors)
Jeremy Rifkin
Richard Dawkins
Piero Angela

Music:
I love singing in my car, sometimes till I lose my voice.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-My Hannibal Project!

-My Country of Birth!
I wonder how a tiny medieval town, similar to many others scattered throughout the Italian peninsula and the rest of Europe, was able to survive.
"Nemini teneri” which means: not dependant on anyone.

Teach, Learn, Share

Learnt:
About love. Male culture and female culture are quite different and because of this it must be accepted. When I go to a foreign Country I cannot use my language to understand the foreign person, but I need to learn her language. And when that person comes into my Country, she must learn my language.
So, man and woman should communicate trying to learn the foreign language of each other.

Shared:
Each of us are different by culture, background, religion and so on. But every human being has the same needs and is driven by the instinct to fulfill one or more of six fundamental human needs.

A life of fulfillment requires all six needs are met in a positive way on a consistent basis.

THE SIX HUMAN NEEDS ARE:

(1)CERTAINTY or COMFORT:
The need for the feeling that everything is settled, secure, and that there are no nasty surprises around the corner.

(2)UNCERTAINTY or VARIETY:
The precise opposite! The need to feel that life is interesting, diverse, exciting and challenging.

(3)SIGNIFICANCE:
The need to feel that you have meaning to others, you are unique, special, important.

(4)LOVE & CONNECTION:
The need to feel love from and for, and connection with others. The need to bond, experience intimacy, to feel oneness.

(5)GROWTH:
The need for the feeling that we are growing, intellectually, spiritually, physically.

(6)CONTRIBUTION:
The need to feel that we are giving of ourselves for the benefit of other living things that we are contributing to life itself.

The degree to which those requirements are being met in a positive, high quality and sustainable way defines the overall quality of life.

Teach:
Falling in love is one of those things that all know what is it cos we tested it, but nobody is capable of to define it. But let me answer to these questions.
-When we fall in love?
We fall in love when we are ready to change. When we are matured inside and fullfilled of our lifestyle. Then we want to develop our capacities. We fall in love of the future.
-who we fall in love with?
Of the persons that in some way symbolically they send signals to us about what we can become, and therefore they symbolize us the possible lives that we can realize.
-Why do we fall in love?
Cos if we want to change and creating new connections, friendships, new families, we should become fluid. Like a metal that to mold is necessary to heat it and then becomes malleable.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, San Marino, United Kingdom

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