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10 Rules & Routines to Regenerate Your Life

From Burnout to Rebirth: A Founder's Journey to Regenerative Living

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John Dass
Sep 30, 2024
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I’m on a mission to live a regenerative life. I don’t want to just talk about regeneration anymore—I want to live it. If you want to regenerate your life too, here are 10 rules and routines that might be helpful to you—along with some personal stories and the science to support these habits.

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Background

Over the last 18 months, I have completely transformed my life—my body, my heart, and my mind. I used to be a stressed-out, hunched-over, burned-out startup founder who spent most of their life behind a screen, rushing from one meeting to the next, hardly stopping to eat, let alone give my full presence to anything. I had a meditation routine and would exercise occasionally, but this was mostly to cope with stress.

Through a painful and difficult season, I decided to let go of my identity as a startup founder for the first time since I dropped out of university in 2009 to build my fir…

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