Juan Pablo Villarino: belief

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…That you’ve seen the possibility that people can be happy in many different settings. Yeah. I think that definitely makes you stronger. Stronger in the sense that it helps you to be happier with less, I think. Also, it helps you to not take for granted what you have at home. When we were in Africa last year, no one had a tap on his house where they would switch it and have running water. They would have to walk to the next little river. Normally, it was the women doing that, and they would have to walk like one mile to get a big full load full of water to their house. We all have taps with running water. So it really helps you not to take things for granted. While preparing for this talk, I looked up quotations about travel. I like to do that. I was shocked at how ordinary or banal all of them were. “Travel opens up your horizons.” “Travel makes you a new person.” Arguably true, but they seem so trite and uninteresting. So the question I have for you is, what is it about travel that no one else will tell us?…

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