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#294: Best Investments, Bad Advice to Avoid, and Other Life Lessons
The Tim Ferriss Show
The Worst Professional Experience of My Life
In early two thousand and three, a good friend sent me an email with the subject line that read, begin drinking heavily. I found myself reading an article that disparaged my entire career. This particular incident, in tandem with a number of historical rejections and setbacks and humiliations, sent me into a really deep depression. In the 14 years since this occurred, this utter take down of everything i'd done to date, ultimately transformed into the foundation of everything i've done since. Everything i am doing now contains the seeds of origin from that time. So it turns out, for him, the worst professional experience i've faced ultimately became the most important, defining experience of his life.
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