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G-Mac's avatar

Reading this with just 11 days until my 38th birthday, and I’ve finally decided to make the leap into full-time digital nomad life. I tested it during the pandemic and felt more alive and accomplished than ever—but I clung to the security of my corporate job and comfort zone.

Now? I’m scared as hell—but I know this leap is necessary.

Appreciate this post, Dan. The timing couldn’t be better.

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Patrik Erävaara's avatar

As someone who recently hit 31, I can attest to a lot of these things, in myself and my friends. Especially in the ”1%” field or what I think of in terms of the Shawshank quote ”get busy living, or get busy dying”.

Please, please, please: get busy living, because if you don’t, you’ll by default be dying. A slow, unnoticable death by a thousand fears, regrets, coulda-shoulda-wouldas. Some of my friends have woken up to this, others have not.

Don’t be too hard on yourselves, allow failure into your life, but do not identify with the failure. Your company failed, you succeeded in learning how NOT to run a company.

Allow yourself to find what you are good at, work on it and passion will follow.

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