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Introduction After a rocky start to my 2019 Vietnam trip, with an unforgettable scam in Hanoi, the rest of the journey more than made up for it. The following three weeks were action-packed and filled with unforgettable moments. I joined some European travelers on a motorcycle trip through Northern...

Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World Recently, I left my career as an engineer to begin a journey of backpacking through the world. After nine years of studying and working as an engineer, I found myself losing passion for what I was doing. There was a growing sense that the work I was doing wasn’t...

This is a story of how I found myself in one of the craziest situations of my life while on a solo trip to Vietnam. It happened about five years ago, and I’ve probably recounted this story over a hundred times. Vietnam was my first time travelling alone, and I’ve since learned a lot about the art...

3 Sentence Summary Aiming for massive growth can be more effective than incremental progress; having a 10x mindset leads to a more strategic approach with better results. 10x change is transformational and requires stepping away from conformity and validation of others. When we make 10x leaps, we create...

Navy SEAL turned leadership coach Jocko Willink has a simple yet effective solution to navigate any problem we might face: Good. What is “Good”? Good is the antidote to four-letter words. You know these words – the ones that come to the tip of our tongue when frustration, injustice,...

At the end of last year, I set a goal to revisit some of the most impactful books I’ve already read with the plan to summarize them. Despite all of this reading, I find I can rarely recall the main ideas. By writing, I’m hoping to reinforce some of the important messages for myself and others.  The...