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conversation. It's about ambition, adventure, politics, and what it takes to make a dent in the world. Here's Caleb to tell you more.

I want to introduce you to the most interesting person you've probably never heard of.

His name is Rory Stewart and here are just a few highlights from

his dramatic resume. He went to Oxford and then to work as a diplomat and some said spy in Indonesia and Montenegro

he walked across Afghanistan alone just a few months after 9-11 and he wrote a book about the adventure that the New York Times called a flat-out masterpiece.

He served as the deputy governor of two Iraqi provinces, and later was tapped by King Charles to set up a

nonprofit in Afghanistan that helped rebuild the old city of Kabul. After that he

was given a chair at Harvard and invited to prepare

strategy for President Obama. He did all of this before the tender age of 35. An age he tells me he never thought he'd reach. Which may explain

what he did next. In 2009 he decided to give up his comfortable Ivy League life and run for British Parliament

in the largest and most sparsely populated constituency in England. Surprisingly, he ran as a conservative, a party he'd never voted for.

Unsurprisingly, at least to me, he won.

Rory at least to me, he won.

Rory spent the next decade in office, and his journey through the corridors of power

is the subject of his new book,

How Not to be a politician. The title gives you a pretty

good sense of what kind of memoir this is. Rory is a rye critic of his own

shortcomings. He's also unflinchingly honest about the damage a job in

politics inflicted on his brain, body, and soul. But the book is also a riveting firsthand account of the seismic shift that occurred in politics over the last decade.

A shift that Rory not only watched with horror, but also tried his best to stop.

Rory Stewart entered Parliament as a liberal-minded centrist.

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