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Ben Saunders on Following One’s Dreams
by Mike Richard
From Ben Saunders, who is “the youngest person to ski solo to the geographic North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton”:
If you could offer one piece of advice, what would that be?
Follow your heart. Do what you’re passionate about; do it to the best of your ability, and everything else will fall into place. And there are only 650,000 hours in the average lifetime, so do it now!
Via BritHammer.com.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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November 9th, 2007
I wonder if young Ben spends a lot of time surfing the internet … and can I justify it by saying I’m passionate about it?
November 9th, 2007
Yes, so long as you only spend 640,000 of your total 650,000 life hours online.
Smart a$$! =P