Within the nineteenth century, Cerro Gordo, which sits above Demise Valley, was the biggest silver mine in America, a spot the place dreamers got here to strike it wealthy. Within the twenty first century, Brent Underwood used his life financial savings to purchase what had turn out to be an deserted ghost city, and ended up discovering a really totally different type of wealth there.
Brent has spent 4 years dwelling in Cerro Gordo and has documented the small print of the mines he’s explored, the artifacts he’s discovered, and the way he’s restoring the city on his standard YouTube channel, Ghost City Residing. Now, in a guide by the identical title, he takes a wider-view lens on his adventures there and shares the large classes he’s discovered from his experiences and from the unique residents of Cerro Gordo. We get into a few of these classes on immediately’s present. We first discuss how and why Brent purchased a ghost city as a method of escaping a typical 9-5 life and discovering a deeper longer-term goal. We then talk about what restoring Cerro Gordo has taught him in regards to the necessity of getting began and taking actual motion, how studying the context of what you do can add better which means to it, the significance of understanding the long-term penalties of short-term pondering, the satisfactions that include being a high-agency individual, and extra.
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