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#355 William Green- Unveiling the Path to Becoming Richer, Wiser and Happier

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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The Paradox of Desire and Struggle to Be

Pico Ira has this kind of double nurse to him, right? Where he's a travel writer who by the age of 30 had already traveled a million miles on one airline. And yet he's also obsessed with what he calls the art of stillness and he's been on retreat about a hundred times usually to a Catholic monastery. So there's this tension in his life between the monastic desire to be still and silent and the travel writers insatiable, relentless desire for movement. How do you simultaneously try to become something, try to improve yourself and yet also be present now in this moment?

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