{"id":136542,"date":"2017-01-18T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildideasworthliving.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:28:55","slug":"james-nestor-the-art-of-freediving-and-writing-an-award-winning-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wild-ideas-worth-living\/james-nestor-the-art-of-freediving-and-writing-an-award-winning-book","title":{"rendered":"James Nestor &#8211; The Art of Freediving and Writing an Award-Winning Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p>James Nestor\u2019s Wild Idea: To leave the corporate life for a job as a freelance writer, then learn to freedive and uncover an entire world of science beneath the surface of the ocean that lead to an award-winning book, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves<\/p>\n<p>About a decade ago, James Nestor knew he wanted to quit his job, but he had no idea he\u2019d become a freediver and develop such strong connection with the ocean. A surfer at heart, James always loved playing at the surface of the ocean, but when doing a story about freedivers, he learned so much more, including about what the ocean can tell us about ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>If you love the ocean, have ever wanted to freedive, or want to be a writer, listen to this episode.<\/p>\n<h2>The Deep Dive<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>01:50 &#8211; How James discovered freediving from a magazine assignment.<\/li>\n<li>04:00 &#8211; The appeal of free diving.<\/li>\n<li>06:20 &#8211; Archaeological evidence of people freediving.<\/li>\n<li>06:50 &#8211; The Japanese Ama Divers who have been freediving (mostly naked) for 2,500 years.<\/li>\n<li>08:40 &#8211; The Japanese women that James met were in their 70s and 80s and had been diving every single day since they were 15 to 16-years old.<\/li>\n<li>09:50 &#8211; Why when you freedive, sea creatures swim towards you, not away from you.<\/li>\n<li>14:50 &#8211; Why your heart rate will continue to lower, the deeper you go.<\/li>\n<li>17:15 &#8211; The two times James was most scared while freediving.<\/li>\n<li>20:05 &#8211; What it looks like 2,400 feet down.<\/li>\n<li>26:10 &#8211; What freelancer writing life is really like.<\/li>\n<li>30:10 &#8211; How the freelance writing culture has changed considerably.<\/li>\n<li>34:10 &#8211; Why freelance writing isn\u2019t for everybody.<\/li>\n<li>36:30 &#8211; Why when writing a book, you have to disconnect, and get offline.<\/li>\n<li>39:10 &#8211; James Nestor\u2019s first book, Get High Now (Without Drugs).<\/li>\n<li>45:05 &#8211; Where James had an amazing surfing experience (not where you think).<\/li>\n<li>49:25 &#8211; What James would tell his younger self about cutting the cord sooner.<\/li>\n<li>54:15 &#8211; James reads all day. His favorite reads, including, Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch<\/li>\n<li>55:30 &#8211; What\u2019s next for James?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tJames Nestor\u2019s Wild Idea: To leave the corporate life for a job as a freelance writer, then learn to freedive and uncover an entire world of science beneath the surface of the ocean that lead to an award-winning book, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":136606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1992,1993,1727],"tags":[],"internal-tag":[],"class_list":["post-136542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-1","category-podcast","category-wild-ideas-worth-living"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wild-ideas-worth-living\/james-nestor-the-art-of-freediving-and-writing-an-award-winning-book","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"James Nestor &#8211; 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