#158 From Rugby to TikTok Influencer — Ben Mercer on navigating the transitional periods in his life, being a professional athlete with an English literature degree, the diversity of the rugby world, various motivations in sports, his passion for rugby, his love of reading and writing, self-publishing and becoming a Tik Tok creator
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
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The Importance of Expectation Over Reality
"I didn't love it as a life anymore. But I actually enjoyed parts of it a lot," says the 36-year-old French rugby player. "It was also way harder looking back than I expected, because there was a sort of like morning of that past identity" The main thing was suddenly your very solitary, when you've been constantly in a in a busy, loud, sociable place where suddenly you're on your own.
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