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Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • Unspecified age, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Teaching, Entrepreneurship
  • Some College
  • From San Francisco
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Disfruta la vida!

ABOUT ME

I have worked for the last ten years doing things I dislike in order to become what I perceived to be successful, when all I really wanted to do was travel the world and immerse myself in different cultures. I am starting now.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't put your life on hold any longer. Live in the present moment, all we have is the eternal now.

Interests

Literature, music, tango, martial arts, language study, travel, stupid humor

  • arts
  • literature
  • tango
  • traveling
  • music
  • martial arts

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Gangster Movies, Dramas, and Comedy, The Aviator, Braveheart, Fight Club, Casino, Diarios del Motocicleta, Scarface, Liar Liar, Talladega Nights, American Psycho.

Music: Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Placido Domingo, Billy Holiday, Andrea Boccelli, Jay-Z, Common, Lila Downs, Sade, Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardel

Books: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, The Tao Te Ching, Alan Watts, Jorge Luis Borges, Sophocles, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Aristotle, The Four-Hour Work Week, Way of the Peaceful Warrior

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent a week meditating in silence with Zen Monks from Taiwan at the Chung Tai Zen Center in Houston Texas. I'm about to embark on a journey to a country where I barely know the language and I don't know anyone.

Teach, Learn, Share

Live what you love and love what you live.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United States

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