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You're listening to how to be a better human.

You're listening to how to be a better human.

I'm your host Chris Duffy.

I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like time is just moving so quickly.

Days blur into weeks, blur into months, and all of a sudden I'm like,

it's summer again?

How could it be summer again?

We skipped a season, didn't we?

Something's gone wrong.

One of the only surefire ways I know

to slow down time to make it not just all blur together is to travel and I know that travel isn't something that we can all do but I will say that for me the ability to experience a perspective shift to see things through someone else's eyes, to walk in someone else's shoes, that has been life changing.

Sometimes that can be a perfect moment, like hearing a brass band play inside of a bowling alley in New Orleans, a memory that comes up every time I see someone do a little victory dance after bowling a strike, and every single time I've seen a tuba.

Or it can also be when things go horribly awry, like when I got food poisoning

right before a transcontinental flight and I was pouring cold sweat in the check-in line just

murmuring to myself over and over,

you can do this, you will survive, you can do this, you will survive.

That is a flight that I will never forget for the rest of my life.

Other times, it doesn't even have to involve leaving the city that I live in.

Like when I was walking around downtown Los Angeles and stumbled across a street

where every single store sold hundreds of different pinatas. Every size, shape, and design you can imagine.

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