Jason Reitman is a mileage runner (even if he doesn’t know it)!

November 25th, 2009 admin

Check out this interview with Jason Reitman, director of ”Up in the Air.” It’s very interesting to hear his perspective on things, and especially how we “chase” material things that ultimately don’t matter. To a certain extent he’s right and I won’t even try to defend myself. That being said, he seems to be a mileage runner, even if he doesn’t realize it. At 5:20 he talks about his end of the year mileage run to


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