Patrick has spent 20 years building and launching some of the world’s most innovative companies including being the first international employee of Youtube and Director of Media Partnerships at Facebook. Patrick is now the Co-Founder of Uptime app – an app that packs thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, and documentaries into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks. You can check out Uptime's website here and find Uptime on instagram @uptime.app

In this episode, we talk about the lessons Patrick has learned from going through a divorce and the importance of taking a moment to notice and really feel pain, and to recognise that discomfort can be a signal to reflect on what can be learned from a difficult situation.

Patrick also gives us a number of great book recommendations in this episode, details of which you can find below:

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

The Road Less Travelled Paperback by M. Scott Peck

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

A selection of books by Thich Nhat Hanh

And still I rise by Maya Angelou

Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa

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