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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 4 - How I Discovered A More Grateful Perspective

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

In this episode I look back on a trip I took to India where I got to take a look at what life is like in the slums of Mumbai. This entire experience shifted my perspective completely and yet the most surprising thing about what I was seeing wasn’t the grim reality of poverty, but the unshakable fact that these people were happy.

I walked away from those slums with an entirely new perspective on the privilege we have been given from birth, and this is where I introduce how I discovered a more grateful perspective

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I went to India for 14 days. I got to see a lot. I went to the Taj Mahal. I did the

0:09.9

touristy stuff. I also went and saw how the people live. I went to the slum in Mumbai.

0:16.9

I went up a mountain. I went through jungles. I saw it all. I witnessed things I never

0:22.7

thought existed, I guess. I had my perspective changed forever. We've all seen pictures of

0:29.0

slums. We've all seen the movies. I promise you, you'd have no idea what a slum is like

0:35.2

until you go there. I was sweating with the heat. I was overwhelmed by the sound and

0:41.8

my eyes saw mess, rubbish and raw sewage like I've never seen before. The slum is, I guess,

0:50.9

the most entrepreneurial place on earth. The whole of India comes there, dumps their rubbish

0:55.4

there. The people that live in the slum basically recycle it to make a living. I saw men, children,

1:02.1

women, recycling TVs to extract the copper from the wires so that they could sell the melted

1:09.4

down copper to the world. I saw them doing the same with rubber, turning tires into rubber

1:16.8

pellets to sell to the world. It's the most resourceful place on earth, but it's the

1:20.3

most heartbreaking in the sense that these people are living in conditions you could never

1:25.1

even imagine. I will never forget the moment I saw a three-year-old kid run up to me while

1:32.0

playing on this pile of rubbish and he squatted down in front of me and he peed and then he

1:39.0

peed. As he got up and began to run away from me, I saw him trip and I looked over to

1:46.2

see what he trepton because it's the whole place is a tip and he trepton the body of a dead

1:52.0

rat and this kid was completely naked. I remember just taking pause for a second and thinking

1:58.4

whether these kids' parents were just incredible. The place was just incredible. There were things

2:08.7

in there that I couldn't even articulate. People just sleeping all over the floors. I walked

2:14.6

past one room which was so hot I had to step away and take a breath and I asked what was

2:21.3

in there and it was just a hole in the ground and they said it was a bakery. That hole in

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