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Quit Your Job
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You can't affect the world in the most important ways from within established patterns of action. You need to spend some time in the wilderness.
Derrick Cooper/Howe Sound Crest Trail, West Vancouver, Canada The following essay originally appeared in print in Palladium 04. To receive original content in future print editions, subscribe here . I quit my engineering job in 2014. I was good at it and it was good to me, but it wasn’t the future. I was still working out my plans, so I hit the gym, pursued the most interesting and important ideas I could find, and started looking for a wife. I met her at a party. I liked her hair. She liked my name. I made fun of her career. She gave me her number. Her friend, who was into prophecy, told her
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