Neuroplasticity Is a Negative Feedback Loop

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"There's definitely the so I've been diving into neuroplasticity a lot lately. Like it is a mechanism that can also hurt you because it can calcify negative aspects, negative feedback loops," he says. "Some of the wisest people that I know have ... backpacked around the world for 20 years and they don't really have a lot of money."

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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