Ghost Town Living Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley

I've been reading his book Ghost Town Living, chasing dreams and mining purpose on the edge of Death Valley.

So this is my favorite chapter in the book. I just read it to my son, Clark. So it's I think it's fit for all ages.

If you look at the book, it's got these beautiful maps of it. He recorded this way underground, which is I understand it, the only only audiobook such recorded.

But go grab Ghost Town Living. We've got signed numbered first editions at the painted porch.

My wife and I have both been raving about this book, Furious Hours which is a true crime story that lo and behold involves Harper Lee.

Anyways this is a story Brent tells in ghost town living mining for purpose and chasing dreams at the edge of that valley which I was lucky enough to work on it's a book I love I love the Sarah Gordon story it's why I've been talking about it so much here at Daily Stoke.

You haven't checked it out yet you should have debuted on the New York Times best seller list and it's just an awesome book I think you'll really like it you grab that we have some signed numbered first editions over at the painted porch I'll link to that in today's show notes check it out.

I've been reading Brent's new book ghost town living mining for purpose and chasing dreams on the edge of death valley and I've been actually reading the the book the last couple nights

it's an awesome book we've been reading it it's it's really a great book it's in that genre of like you know desert solitaire wild spichero straight kind of books and i think you're really going to like it

Clark keep exploring

For nearly two years Brent Underwood had made no progress on restoring the buildings at Saragordo this abandoned mining town in California.

I just felt we needed to raise money higher contractors and preservation and then it all get done in one big frenzied crush of Candue spirit not a very good plan he said because after two years I made precisely zero progress.

It was only when Brent threw all these plans aside and got serious got small that any progress was made.

He stopped thinking big and he started working on the front porch of one old building as he writes in the book which again is awesome he says it was a small feat in the grand scheme of things but it was a start a good start.

The sense of pride I derived from seeing a space go from unusable to usable the sense of autonomy that accomplishing this small task left me with felt like life like rebirth like my own personal renaissance I felt competent and effective that something anything had finally happened here and that I was the one responsible for it gave me the first taste of satisfaction that comes from working with your hands from working meaningfully diligently patiently incrementally towards a big goal my dreams had an integrity now that they lacked before they weren't pying the sky there were boots on the ground hands in the dirt.

It was during that time that we were putting together the a live time challenge for the daily stoic Brent explains in his amazing new book Ghost Town Living so it's thinking a lot about this, just thinking about whether it was going to be a live time or a dead time and I kept going back he says to that fundamental stoic lesson separating things into what you can and can't control.

And the book is really, really great. I read an early copy of it. I got to help do a passive edits on it too.

Check out Ghost Town Living, Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams on the Edge of Death Valley. I think it's a great book up there with desert solitaire and some of those books in that category. It's going to be a favorite of yours.

It was probably the most devastating day of my life. You are literally watching your life savings and hopes and dreams burn down in front of you.

You can't change what happened he told Brent, but what happens from here is up to you.

And now an awesome book by the same name Ghost Town Living Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the edge of Death Valley.

But if you haven't grabbed the book, you absolutely should.

And if you like podcasts, he recorded the audiobook of it 900 feet underground just an awesome story, so cool to see Brent not just survive up there but thrive despite all kinds of adversity.

Check out Brent's book Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley at The Painted Porch.