I moved from hobby to hobby, from job to job, I'm already an overachiever.

And it's almost like a kaleidoscope of interest that shift and flow from one thing to another.

With university, I'm going to be singularly focused on who I am to become next.

I apply to the Bocconi, which is one of the best private universities in Milan and I get in.

It's business and economics.

I'm not very good at math and science, but I am so arrogant and full of myself that I decide to go to the hardest school ever

because it's where all the geniuses go.

I mean, I'm kind of full of crap. It's as simple as that.

I've admired Paola Antonelli for several years now.

Through her work at MoMA in New York, she champions the role design plays in our everyday life.

In her meditative story, Paola takes a sailing back to life on the sardinian sea of her native Italy

and tells a story about who she wants to become.

And if our making decisions often requires us to first see where the comments are actually taking us.

In this series, we blend intimate stories taught by extraordinary people with mindfulness prompts that flow in and out of the narrative

all to help calm your mind.

I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide on this episode of Meditative Story.

The body relaxed. The body breathing. Your senses open. Your mind open. Meeting the world.

I've heard it said that in order to make big decisions, you have to go back to the waters of your birth.

To a place that's closest to where you were born. A place that makes you serene and open.

Where your thoughts are clear and your vibrations are in tune to the vibrations of the world.

That place for me is the sea.

Where I can take the winds and the waves in any direction.

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