2018-09-04
1 小时 4 分钟So today's guest, Ben Nemton, was a rising star in canadian rugby.
One of the top players in the country headed towards the national team and starting off in college, when his brain started doing funny things, it started playing tricks and it started spinning mad cycles of anxiety that eventually sent him into a very dark place and depression.
He ended up pulling out of school and returning home where he could start to wrangle what was going on in his mind and work his way through it.
While he was there, he took a bit of time and he started doing some work with friends and asking some bigger questions.
Among them, what do I want to do before I die?
Which is a bit of an odd question for somebody who is just starting out in college to be asking.
That led to a first trans canadian road trip with four friends to take off lists on what seemed to be an impossible bucket list and at the same time do deep acts of service that got them featured all over the place.
It led to something called the buried life, which became eventually a show, I believe actually one of the most popular shows on MTV led to a massive New York Times number one bestselling book entitled what do you want to do before you die?
What a lot of people don't know, though, is the detailed backstory, the behind the scenes, and what happened after all this.
When you have sort of this major life awakening, when you go on the most incredible, exciting journey of checking off the biggest bucket list items that you could ever imagine.
Things like sneaking into the VMA awards, playing basketball with the United States president, and then helping people in the most profound ways.
When that's over, where do you go from there?
What happens?
Because what we've seen is that so often that leads to another window of darkness.
So we explore how Ben has navigated that transition, how it led to another really big decision to actually walk away from a lot of what he'd been with his friends.
Really, really eye opening and moving conversation today.
I'm Jonathan fields, and this is good Life project.
I grew up in Victoria, BC, so that's on an island off of Vancouver, and it's kind of a utopic place to grow up because you're right on the ocean, you're right by mountains to ski, you're right by lakes to swim.
There's a great university.
University of Victoria is one of the better universities in Canada, and it's safe.