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Episode 035 - The Space Between: Sam Illingworth on Becoming Fearless with 18 Years of Clear-Minded Living
December 22, 2007. Sam Illingworth woke up in a hospital bed with his heart racing, his memory blank, and a doctor offering him the simplest advice he'd ever received: "Don't drink for a month and see what happens." That month became 18 years. That choice became the foundation for a career built not on speed or performance, but on attention, dialogue, and the courage to work slowly in a world obsessed with acceleration.
Today, Sam is a Full Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University, founder of Consilience (the world’s first peer-reviewed science and poetry journal), and…
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