Dean Karnazes
“I thought that if I went through university and I got a good job and I was making a good earning, that I would be happy. And I did those things and I was miserable. I didn’t like being a businessman. It just wasn’t who I was as a human.” Dean’s first run was fueled by a lot of drinking on his 30th birthday, where he had kind of a midlife crisis or an epiphany, and thought “You’re either going to spend the rest of your life wishing you weren’t doing what you’re doing now, or you’re going to make a radical alteration. I chose to make a radical alteration. A lot of people think about it, but need something,...