1648: The Sense of Loss in a Big Adventure by Chris Guillebeau on Living In The Moment & Gratitude

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Chris Guillebeau shares his thoughts on the sense of loss in a big adventure. Episode 1648: The Sense of Loss in a Big Adventure by Chris Guillebeau on Living In The Moment & Gratitude Chris Guillebeau is a New York Times bestselling author and modern-day explorer. He is the author of 5 books and his daily podcast, Side Hustle School, is downloaded more than 2 million times a month. Every summer in Portland, Oregon, Chris hosts the World Domination Summit, a gathering of creative, remarkable people with thousands in attendance. Chris is also the founder of Pioneer Nation, Unconventional Guides, the Travel Hacking Cartel, and numerous other projects. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday. The original post is located here: https://chrisguillebeau.com/the-sense-of-loss-in-a-big-adventure/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1648, The Sense of Loss in a Big Adventure by Chris
0:06.4	GillibotofChrisGillibot.com, and I'm just a malloc, your personal narrator, reading to
0:11.3	you every day, including holidays.
0:12.8	And let me give this intro nice and short, so let's get right to it as we optimize your
0:17.3	life.
0:22.2	The Sense of Loss in a Big Adventure by ChrisGillibotofChrisGillibot.com
0:28.7	An unexpected thing happened on the streets of Seoul, Korea.
0:32.0	I've been a soul several times and don't really feel anything special about it.
0:36.6	It's not a bad place in any way, and perhaps I'd like it more if I spent more time there.
0:41.5	I just don't think of Seoul in a special way, as I do with other Asian cities like Hong
0:45.8	Kong, Singapore, and Bangkok.
0:48.8	That's why the thing was so unexpected.
0:51.7	All of a sudden while writing along in the interminable airport shuttle, the main airport
0:55.8	is more than an hour from the city, I began to feel sad.
0:59.8	I looked around and realized that even though I didn't love Seoul itself, in the near future
1:04.6	I greatly missed this experience.
1:07.4	For more than 10 years, I've been actively traveling in all parts of the world.
1:12.4	For the past four years, travel has been a near obsession.
1:15.8	I've been in at least 20 countries every year, often more like 35 when you consider
1:21.1	all the transits and stopovers.
1:23.7	There hasn't been any time when I haven't been planning at least one big trip.
1:27.9	I've had multiple 10 segment at interminaries open at any given time.
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