How To!: Live Anywhere in the World
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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Summary
Have you ever wanted to move to a new country? Picking up and starting over internationally can be rewarding, but also nerve-wracking. Our listener Sara has lived overseas for more than a decade, but she recently moved to Switzerland and is struggling to fit in. On this episode of How To!, founding host Charles Duhigg brings in Dr. Nassim Assefi who, amongst all of her interesting professional accomplishments, is a self-identified "global nomad." She's lived in over 10 countries and draws on her extensive personal experience to help Sara—and anyone thinking about moving abroad—make a smooth transition.
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| 0:00.0 | I've lived in Afghanistan, I've lived in Japan, I've lived in Cuba, in Paris, in China. |
| 0:06.7 | I feel more alive living abroad. |
| 0:09.2 | Everything is a learning experience. |
| 0:10.9 | You can't help but to learn. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to How To. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Charles DuHig filling in for Carbell Wallace. |
| 0:17.6 | And my voice might be familiar to some of you who are listening. |
| 0:20.6 | In which case, thank you for being a long time listener. |
| 0:23.8 | And for those of you who do not know who I am, that's totally fine. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Charles. |
| 0:28.2 | I was the first host of How To. |
| 0:30.2 | And I'm the author of a few books, including The Power of Habit and SmarterFasterBetter |
| 0:34.2 | and an upcoming book that comes out next February called Supercommunicators. |
| 0:38.2 | How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection. |
| 0:41.4 | And connection, interestingly enough, is at the heart of today's show because of this |
| 0:45.7 | question that we got from our listeners, Sarah. |
| 0:49.2 | I wrote in with the question of how to move to a foreign country, although it is funny |
| 0:54.0 | because I'm not exactly a fresh expect. |
| 0:57.2 | Sarah grew up in Michigan and went to college in Chicago where, like, a lot of students, |
| 1:01.4 | she participated in a study abroad program and loved it. |
| 1:04.9 | But when she came back to the US and graduated, the future inside the US did not look that |
| 1:10.2 | rosy. |
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