His Spine Was 120 Years Old at 29. So He Set Sail | Oliver Widger

I went to the doctor and they took some x-rays and the the doctors she was like, your spine is like somebody who's over 120 years old. After the diagnosis, I spiraled completely and then I I finally one day I I was like Uh my name is Oliver. I work a uh corporate job at a tire shop. I absolutely hate this life. Yeah, I'm gonna buy a sailboat.

and I'm going to sail around the world. That's Oliver Widger, who quit his job after he posted that video, liquidated his 401k, bought a sailboat, and started learning how to sail. Our guest for you guys today is the one and only Oliver Widger. I haven't told anyone this, but I was in special ed from uh first grade to a senior in high school.

There's only there's one thing in my life that I could do well and that is I can grind. I can work so hard. If I lean into that, I can do I can do anything. I tell people this that are young all the time that like message. I tell them, dude, if I could go back in time and I was 18 or 20 or whatever, I would literally get a globe and I would spin the globe and then I would stop the globe with my finger.

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