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#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
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Advice for young people
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Asked what he'd tell young people flooded with envy of his life, Rosolie is characteristically honest: he failed out of high school, had no PhD, no family money, and no clear path — he just went to the jungle and did it for the love of it for nearly a decade before anything 'surfaced.' The restaurant analogy captures his philosophy: start washing dishes, at least you're in the building. But Lex then reads aloud a raw Instagram post Rosolie wrote during a period of total exhaustion and defeat — a Cormac McCarthy-tinged piece about swimming against the current of global economic entropy, watching constellations of species become ghosts, carrying the ring nobody warned you was this heavy. The juxtaposition of 'just go do it' with 'this will cost you everything' gives the advice its full texture.
