You're Never Going to Reach That

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There's this pressure on us to define ourselves according to all that we do, which is a recipe for depression. My advice to them is always like okay what what are you passionate about? And then the second thing is like you know what what is it that you actually think is going to fulfill you because i think that another issue is that people um and i have very conflicting thoughts on this but a lot of people seem to think that like they have to make do i mean just try these different things and see how you like it man.

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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