How to Find Your Purpose - Ben Borg #117

Ben Borg broke or dislocated at least 22 of the 26 bones in one foot, and was told he would never run again, would be lucky to walk, and might still lose the foot. Six months later his foot had still not touched the ground. He says that injury is the reason he found the work he now does.

Ben Borg is a ceremony and breathwork facilitator who has spent close to ten years learning from elders in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala and North America. This is a different kind of Bothsides episode, and Dan opens it by saying so.

What you will learn:

- The teacher's line he lives by: you get a tap on the shoulder, then a brick, then the Mack truck

- What actually happened to the friendships and the identity when the sport was taken away

- Why he says purpose is not a thing you find but a question about how you can be of use to the people around you

- Why breath, not plants, is the first thing he reaches for, even living in Peru with access to everything

- The morning practice he uses to start a day with intention rather than with a phone

Chapters

00:00 A different kind of episode, and why Dan wanted to record it

04:45 The suburban life that was not sustainable

07:54 Seven minutes into the trial that would have changed everything

12:45 The boulder in Hawaii that missed by millimetres

15:55 Ketamine in the emergency room, and his first psychedelic experience

17:31 Twenty two broken bones, and being told he would never run again

20:41 The Tuesday night with the bottle of vodka

23:52 The infection, the amputation warning, and going to Bali anyway

27:05 Watching every documentary he could find beforehand

30:17 The vision that made him vegan

35:00 Machu Picchu, after three failed attempts to get there

39:45 A gathering of elders in Ibiza

43:03 Bringing cacao ceremony to Botany Bay

52:35 Alcohol as a coping mechanism

58:53 The night they said we are going to breathe

1:00:33 Breathwork before anyone had heard of the Iceman

1:10:07 Heads down, disconnected, running on adrenals

1:16:30 Not everyone needs to become a yoga teacher

1:24:22 Starting the day with intention instead of a phone

1:32:24 A vision quest: four days, four nights, no food, no water

Ben Borg rebuilt himself on discipline, not hope. Property should be bought the same way.

Most properties only make money if the market does. The ones that pay for themselves from the day you settle are bought differently, and it comes down to four points.

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