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Overview

  • 20 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Slovene
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Freelancer
  • Neverending
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I'm on a mission to speak to as many people as possible about this experience of being human. I do this through interviews and events and post them to https://howtobehuman.co

I don't travel to see new places, I travel to catch a glimpse of what it's like to live there.

ABOUT ME

I'm endlessly curious about life and people. You can usually find me pondering over a hot coffee, sat cross-legged reading a good book, or immersed in deep conversation.

I'm vegetarian, I like to run and I like making things. I've had more random projects over the past 8 years than I can even remember. I tend to ask big questions a lot.

PHILOSOPHY

You are not your thoughts. You are an experiencer living in this human form for a while. Realising that changes everything.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment I can only surf and meet up for drinks :(

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My favourite experiences from Couchsurfing are very simple; I like to spend time with passionate, interesting people over beers, coffee or sometimes both ;)

More specifically this has involved a dinner party in Sarajevo, chilling out on the banks of the Ljublanica River with people I met through Couchsurfing and being engrossed in interesting conversation in pubs all across Europe.

Interests

My biggest interests are life and people. I'm on a mission to hear stories, to immerse myself in peoples' way of life, and to listen curiously as they describe their passions and ideas. As YOU describe your passions and ideas.

I want to have adventures. As Paulo Coelho wrote "I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be."

  • writing
  • books
  • wine
  • red wine
  • beer
  • coffee
  • vegetarian
  • running
  • meditation
  • reading
  • piano
  • business
  • philosophy
  • mindfulness
  • vipassana

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The Wisdom Of Insecurity - Alan Watts
Think On These Things - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Siddharta - Hermann Hesse
Ben Franklin's biography - Walter Isaacson
On The Shortness Of Life - Seneca

Music:
Bob Dylan
Kiasmos
Olafur Arnolds
Bonobo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I moved to Ljubljana with no plan and a limited supply of money. It turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life.

I wrote a book about travel.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've learnt a few things about marketing, I can help with writing/English language, or perhaps the thing I'm known best for is simply listening.

I would like to learn what it's like to be you.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Slovenia, United Kingdom

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