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“Americans don’t understand how insanely expensive it is to live in the U.S.,” Bobby said on my podcast. He sold everything he owned and left the country in 2009. Right after the market crashed. Now he works all over the world.

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The last thing you want is someone who ‘has all the answers’ – because all that means is that they’ve been asking uninteresting questions.

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Anderson Cooper couldn’t get even get a job answering telephones right after college.

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Let us scribble in our notebooks our dreams for the future. Let us change our minds. And let us make mistakes.

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Spoiler alert: life is hard and messy. It’s also lovely and beautiful. Stop worrying about some deadline you’ve made up in your head or one that someone else, that’s not going through what you’re going through, has tried to push your way.

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The goodbyes weren’t crushing, until this very last one.

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Perfection is a mirage. And the only way you can catch hold of it, is by letting it go.

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I’m not afraid to say “I don’t know.” And neither should you.

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Your 20s are tough because you have no idea where you’re going and yet you are expected to know exactly where you’re going. Stop. Stop trying to figure it out.

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Whatever situation you’re in, at some point you’re going to wind up asking yourself: “What do I do next? Where do I go from here? How do I figure out my next step?”