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Life Outside the Box

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2012 is the year I permanently start living outside of the box

Or as my favorite band puts it, out of the jar:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThi78NzKC8

I have a bit of money saved up. I am about to quit my job, thereby losing my recurring income, but hopefully the amount I have saved is enough to pull of this plan:

First, I'm going to start traveling the world. I plan to leave for Thailand in mid-April and never come back. Well, I'll stop by the States on occasion (I have two different weddings to attend in July, if nothing else). On my way around the world I want to build a lifestyle business that can make this exploration continue indefinitely. I have basically no practical skills, but a high IQ, I'm pretty darn personable and handsome and all that jazz (former porn star, competitive dancer, youngest ever invited lecturer at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics), and when I'm under pressure, I shine like the sun. Right now I'm working a bullshit personal assistant/executive director of a philanthropic fund job that requires basically no effort or intelligence, so I'm not under any pressure, and so I feel like a lump of coal rather than the diamond I know I can be. I'm hoping that by traveling I'll be able to douse myself in that wonderful eustress that gets me to actually get shit done, and then get some shit done and build that lifestyle business that I'll need, before I'll actually need it. And all from a beachhouse in Thailand or what have you.

My current idea for a practical lifestyle business is basically what Tim Ferriss talks about in 4HWW: finding something during my travels that people don't have in the USA that an adwords campaign confirms they would want, setting up a shopify, and getting a fulfillment company to ship it out. I'm totally open to new ideas, though.
So what do you think?

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The formatting is a little odd because I wrote this as an email to you, then went to your website to find your email address, and then noticed that hey SETT is up so I can just post this instead! Copying it over included the formatting, unfortunately.

Hey here's a question: I just started a blog,
http://whatjohanfound.com

Read any entry other than the most recent one, which is shit.
I have no attachment to its current format or anything. How do I go about setting up my own SETT blog? I've been poking around the website for a while now and haven't actually found that, to my chagrin.

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I am one of the people that you speak to in the beginning of The Life Nomadic
, who found a copy online for free. I enjoyed it and found it informative enough that I then went and bought a copy, and I am really looking forward to putting its ideas into practice. Speaking of, I'm having trouble actually finding info about which specific cruise lines have the cheap in a certain direction tickets, do you have any more precise advice about that?

Man, it's been a while since I read The Life Nomadic, I should really reread that.

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It's all in LN. The gist is to start at cruisehotsheet.com and end up at cruisecompete.com...

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Hey... you can't have a SETT blog just yet... I'm going to endure the bugs solo and then once it's polished up a bit let other people use it, too. I'll put a signup list in this community section at some point.

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Okay, cool. I'm definitely going to be interested once it's fully rolled out

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The 2009 Nomad Packing List

Our most popular Life Nomadic article last year was our complete packing list. Since then we've learned a lot, made a lot of changes, and managed to pack a lot more into the same tiny amount of space.

There are a few areas where slight improvement could be made, which you'll hear me talk about in the video, but overall this collection of stuff represents everything a traveler needs to travel through just about anywhere on the planet, live comfortably, and keep connected.

I've consolidated most of the stuff I pack into an Amazon store, which you can access here: Life Nomadic Store. If you use that link, or the Amazon links below, I get a commission. Other good places to buy this sort of gear are ebay and outdoor shops like REI and MEC, although neither store carries most of the gear.

Pina

I was going to just email this to Tynan but noticed Tynan.com is running on SETT now so figured, what the hell, I'll share it with everyone.

The reason I came to the site was to find the quote from his post on meditation. It's the first sentence of the post. "The thing that really scares me is spontaneous personal expression."


That's certainly the case for me, too, and of all my fears, pushing on that one has been the most rewarding thing I've ever done. Eight years of western therapy and western Buddhist meditation have done a lot for that particular fear but it's still the strongest. I'm afraid of heights and falling and injury and public speaking all sorts of other stuff but working with those fears is nothing compared to the fear of expressing myself, especially in ways that I don't already identify as "things I'm good at" or "things I'm proud of."


I went to the Game Developer's Conference last week, but only managed to attend two talks other than my own (because I was still preparing for my own) but one of them was by John Sharp, an art historian, academic, and game designer who teaches at Georgia Institute of Technology. His was a talk on Abstraction in art and game design. He talked about a lot of stuff: painting, photorealism, photography, Jackson Pollock, Islamic religious art, dance, and more I'm forgetting, but one thing that struck me was the trailer clips he used from Wim Wenders' "Pina", a documentary film about Pina Bausch, a choreographer I'd never heard of, but Wikipedia told me was one of the foremost influences in modern dance over the last 30 years.


Then I got back to Seattle and completely coincidentally a friend had posted on Facebook about it playing at a theater here, and about wanting to see it. I bought tickets and saw it tonight.


First, it's the first and only 3D movie I've seen where the 3D was not just a dumb gimmick. It was integral: it felt like you were on stage watching all the dance. Second, the dance was all incredible. And third, and most important, it did an incredibly job of showing how modern dance is a practice of - and performance about - overcoming that deepest fear of personal self-expression. Bausch died days before the film began shooting, so it became a tribute to her, but has no interviews with her directly. Instead, her dancers talk about how she was constantly challenging their fear, pushing them out of their comfort zones, driving them to explore the deep yearning that motivates them, and inviting them to scare themselves and others with the intensity and intimacy of their work.

I cannot recommend this film highly enough. Like I said, I was just going to tell Ty he should try to find a theater showing it because I think he'd love it, but I'd say the same for any reader of this blog. If Tynan's words and attitude resonate with you, I bet Pina will too. It's a real masterpiece.

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