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#127 The Art of Quitting & Reinvention - Nina Simon on living "off the grid" in an intentional community, taking "turns" in marriage and work, having kids on an unconventional path & leaving her dream job at NASA

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Is There a Way to Practice Failure?

"I've also always been an athlete who's really been into like stupidly hard sports," she says. "If you're choosing at seven in the morning on a freezing day to carry 50 pound sandbags through the ocean and do burpees with them, like, it is clearly only your choice that is making you do." She adds: "For the most part, failure is something that you can learn from...and so aggressively pursuing that has been something that I think helps support that"

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