[BONUS] Boyd Varty - 40 Days and 40 Nights

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of the worldwide quarantine, my friend Boyd Varty decided to begin an adventure he has been considering for a long time: a 40 day and 40 night stay in the African wilderness. I’m releasing this short conversation with Boyd to pique your interest in his daily dispatches. He will be taking short audio journal-like recordings and sharing them with the world as he goes. As of today they are several that you can listen to by subscribing to the Track Your Life podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Please enjoy this short chat with my good friend Boyd Varty.

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Show Notes

(0:31) – The start of his 40-day trip

(1:42) – Origin of the word quarantine and how it led to this journey

(3:07) – History of this idea

(6:14) – The logistics of this 40-day venture

(9:59) – His experience doing this before and how it changed his psyche

(12:07) – What is he most fearful of

(13:22) – How he feels about sharing this experience when he returns

(15:47) – The mental preparation to this journey

(15:48) – Priya Parker Podcast Episode

(15:49) – The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

(17:33) – How can outsiders make a connection to Boyd while he’s in this isolation

(19:55) – How can people actually follow him on this journey

(20:23) – Track Your Life with Boyd Varty Podcast – Apple Podcasts | Spotify

(20:33) – Instagram - @boyd_varty

(20:36) – boydvarty.com

(20:43) – 40daysand40nights.com

(21:05) – The story of the 17 lions

Learn More

For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.

Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub

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Transcript

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0:00.0	In the midst of the worldwide quarantine, my friend Boyd Vardy decided to begin an adventure he has
0:04.0	been considering for a long time, a 40 day and 49th stay in the African wilderness. I'm releasing
0:09.6	this short conversation with Boyd to peak your interest in his daily dispatches. He will be
0:13.7	taking short audio, journal-like recordings, and sharing them with the world as he goes.
0:18.0	As of today, there are several that you can listen to by subscribing to the Track Your Life podcast
0:22.3	on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Please enjoy this short chat with my friend Boyd Vardy
0:27.2	and check out Track Your Life. So Boyd, you're doing one of the most interesting things
0:33.6	are about to set off on one of the most interesting things of anybody that I know in this strange
0:38.0	state of quarantine that we're in in the world. I'd love for you to begin by just describing
0:42.6	exactly what it is you're about to do and then I want to pick apart the wise, the house, the
0:47.2	winds and all the fun aspects of this because I got to admit I'm a little jealous.
0:51.2	Sure, then, while I'm about to embark on 40 days and 49th alone in the wilderness at Londolosi.
0:59.8	So this is literally the last night that I'll be in the camp and then I head out early tomorrow
1:03.8	morning. Where are you staying? So there are two old tree houses on the property and I'm going to
1:11.3	be staying at one of these tree houses that happens to be next to the river. I decided it's still
1:15.8	summer, it's pretty hot so it's a perfect spot. It's up in a beautiful ebony tree above the river.
1:21.2	You could imagine it like a kind of it's a wooden deck suspended in the tree and being on a wooden
1:26.2	deck being up in a tree it makes sleeping a lot more comfortable at night because you don't have
1:30.4	the heat of being in a tent and you don't have to keep watching worry about something dragging you away.
1:35.3	I know this wasn't the reason you're doing it but I think you just found this quote. Can you share
1:39.2	the origin of the word quarantine that you were just telling me about? Sure. I mean, it has felt like a
1:44.8	moment in time. Originally, I've always wanted to do this. It's something and I've done versions of
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