From the course: From Banking to Wildlife: Omar Samra’s Exceptional Career Change

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The search for meaning

The search for meaning

- [Dana] So Omar has climbed Everest. He's done the Explorers grand slam. And in a two person kayak, journeyed across the Atlantic ocean, nearly dying in the process. He's done on earth lunar missions, where he's camped out in isolation for two weeks in Poland for lunar research. And he tells me, space exploration is what's next for him. Do you find day to day life boring? Like city life, do you find day to day city life boring? - [Omar] I don't find day-to-day life boring, city life boring. I find day-to-day life without an aim like to work towards, a little bit hard to manage. It's something that I struggle with because the ups and downs of my life have been so extreme. Like, from the ups of like, reaching the summits of these mountains or completing these projects, to the ultimate downs which would be obviously the loss of my wife. - [Dana] Can we talk about Marwa? - [Omar] Yeah, of course. - [Dana] Is that okay?…

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