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What It’s Like To Drop Everything And Travel The World, Part 3

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Sean Ogle talked about how many people who do a continual 9-5 grind for years become stuck in habits that they are not even aware of: watching TV for hours at night. Never trying anything new. Not working on personal dreams… I would extend this to say that anyone, including entrepreneurs, the unemployed, aliens, etc. could fall victim to this …

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What It’s Like To Drop Everything And Travel The World, Part 2

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Cover image: The Bitexco financial tower and street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. So upon entering Vietnam as a digital nomad and trying to glimpse out of the plane window to catch my first glimpse of the country I started to feel it… The humidity. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of drinking water left, so I was sparingly …

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What It’s Like To Drop Everything And Travel The World, Part 1

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Cover image: Walking along the seawall in Vancouver, Canada. Nearly a month ago, I dropped everything I had in Canada and became a digital nomad. I took a suitcase, a backpack, and flew to Vietnam. So I decided to write a 5000 word multi-post about my experience thus far. In this three-part post, I’ll discuss the lead up to the trip, …

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How To Save Over $1,500 And Book Your First Location Independent Move In 13 Easy Steps

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I just booked a one-way ticket to Vietnam a few weeks ago to make my first ever location independent move. I can work from anywhere. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (in girly high pitched scream) I feel so nervous and excited it’s nuts! But you might ask: “Noam – what process can I go through to buy my own ticket, and how can I …

15 Things I Learned (or Re-Learned) about Life from Grad School

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Coming to the end of my Master’s I originally felt depressed, annoyed, and angry that I hadn’t done all that I originally set out to do. But thanks to some outside sources, I was told that the degree isn’t about getting the exact goal done, it’s more about the learning involved. You learn how to do research. But I learned …

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The Avoider Mentality and the Fear of Intimacy

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The insecurity and unknown burrows into your brain like a parasite, constantly clawing at you and never relenting. You hate the feelings of the unknown that cause the tightness in your chest, that choke your throat. You try to speak to them but it never comes out right, it never comes out as the way that you think it should …