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There's a lovely Instagram post where you're playing with some dogs and I think the caption is something like never happier than when I'm with dogs. And I wanted to ask you about these anchors. I mean, I didn't have the word then, but just like what is your comfort zone? Like who is you outside of the work you do in the corporate world or the work you do, you know, in writing a book or whatever, you know, what is that comfort zone? You know, describe that for
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me. So for me, my that comfort zone is the pursuit of happiness. What I mean by that is, for example, I have an image in my head that my ideal life is where, for example, I'm, you know, lying on a couch, reading a book, sipping, sipping like a warm beverage with my dog, etc. The pursuit of that idea is honestly what gives me that that anchor in life. I again, just to be clear that this whole my affinity for dogs also comes from a place of trauma as while I was growing up, I had a dog and we kind of moved cities and the dog fell really sick. We were moving back to Delhi. We couldn't take her with us. And of all things I've experienced in life, that's my most traumatic moment was the moment of having to give up that dog. So this the ability right now to fulfill that childhood dream of having a dog and taking care of it is what really drives me so every day, even after a hard day at work of things haven't gone right, etc. to come back and be with that dog is is great for me. And as you rightly said, right? These are the kind of the smaller things of life yesterday when I checked into my Airbnb here, it had an aqua guard and I don't know how many of the people in the front 20 years ago might remember that tune of the aqua guard. And I heard that tune after 20 years and I was like this, it made it brought me so much joy to just listen to that and go back in time to to some place that I perceive to be happy and the rear view mirror. So I think for a lot of people my age, I'm 31 at this point, it's that phase in life where I think you kind of come to the conclusion that you know, quote unquote some part of your youth is over and now you have to kind of build a life that you want to live for the next 20, 30 years and I think people struggle with that. And for me, therefore the change has been in finding a partner, a community, you know, whatever else that I can really get along well with.
Ridesharing wasn't a thing 12 years ago when John Zimmer was in college. But a class on green cities got him thinking about the glut of underused cars on the road, and eventually led him to co-found Lyft, a company that has helped make ridesharing a way of life.
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