Bike Life

Transformation Through Hardship


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Tahverlee is joined today by Seth Davidson, a recovering lawyer who has spent his life racing bikes since 1984 and now seeks to be a beacon for truth and introspection. In recent years Seth has concluded that there is a better life available so much so that over the coming years he seeks to spend zero time practicing law and all of his time on his bicycle supporting himself with his writing.

We talked about the idea of desperation and how often, the thing that connects the

creators of the greatest works, is a need and having their back against the

wall. When Seth set out on his 3600-mile bike tour he found that through

encountering hardship, he rediscovered his creativity and gentleness along with

meeting incredible people along the way who have changed his outlook on life.

We talked about how by getting rid of belongings and ‘things’ we can experience a new

kind of freedom as we become untethered from the emotional bonds that connect

us to them.

Seth plans in the next 5 years to be an itinerant minstrel on a bicycle reciter of

medieval Chaucerian poetry. He has already memorized 4000 of the 17000 words

Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English

Read Seth’s Blog Cycling in the South Bay at www.citsb.com

Quote: "writers are desperate people and when you stop being desperate, you stop being

a writer" - Charles Bukovsky

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