What Is Your Guiding Principle for You?

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A central theme of the the podcast and in my life frankly is the question what are you optimizing for. A lot of people don't know because they just haven't had a lot of life experience but also to your point they have not been asked that question enough. There's a lot of poor people that are actually super obnoxious and then now you're stuck in a super obnoxious poor people vortex. You can test that and see how you feel about it before you invest all this time. i would a hundred percent recommend if somebody if they want to do something like your program and like to do that to get outside of your the have some elasticity and your thinking.

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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