198 - Johann Besserer (Galapagos)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2016
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
When Johann arrived in the Galapagos for an educational trip, he knew that something important had changed in his life. He's built a life around that recognition.
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| 0:00.1 | RR 체 itzinho |
| 0:27.6 | sublazing gentleman |
| 0:29.4 | Coming to you from the sailboat still on the sailboat still not writing as much as I should be |
| 0:38.5 | But I'm trying I'm trying I don't know. I think this may be |
| 0:44.1 | Dr. Ryan's last book if |
| 0:47.7 | If I can't figure out a way to make this experience more enjoyable |
| 0:52.9 | I don't know last book under a deadline anyway. I think from now on I'm going to |
| 1:00.4 | I'm going to |
| 1:02.4 | Refuse the advance money and just write the damn thing as I write it and have it be out when it's out and |
| 1:09.8 | Not feel these deadlines hanging over me |
| 1:14.5 | I don't know it doesn't feel hunter-gatherer. That's the thing. It feels like I've |
| 1:20.0 | painted myself into a corner a farming corner and I've got a harvest and if I don't get out there and harvest these |
| 1:27.8 | Fucking fruits and vegetables. They're gonna rot in the field and I'm gonna be screwed like a farmer who didn't get his harvest in on time |
| 1:37.7 | The reins will come and |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah, yeah, you know I |
| 1:45.2 | Don't know. I don't know if this is like |
| 1:47.8 | If this is just me bullshitting myself or if there's some sort of universal |
| 1:53.6 | significance to these things |
| 1:55.6 | but I |
| 1:56.6 | Look back on my life and I see that the times I'm happiest are the times where my life has been most |
| 2:04.3 | Hunter-gatherer like and this is far before I started really thinking in these terms or you know |
| 2:10.1 | Making a living as any sort of a you know modern spokesman for ancient lifestyles or whatever the hell I am at this point but |
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