Rekindling the Spark
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We're told to follow our dreams. But often, that's disappointing. Reality typically doesn't measure up to what we'd imagined. So what then? How do you reignite your passions?
On this episode, we travel from an observatory in Puerto Rico to a hillside in New Jersey, and explore how one scientist overcame the disillusionment of academia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hub and spoke. Audio Collective. This season of Out There is sponsored by Peak FISA. |
| 0:12.1 | Peak Fizer is an app that helps you make the most of your adventures. Let's say you're out on a |
| 0:17.4 | hike and you want to know what mountains you're looking at off in the distance. Peak Viser will tell you. |
| 0:22.6 | You just open up the app and it'll show you a panorama of everything you're looking at with all the peaks labeled. |
| 0:29.6 | They also have intricate 3D maps to help you plan out your adventures. |
| 0:33.6 | If you'd like to be a superhero of outdoor navigation, check out PeakVisor in the app store. You just might love it. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:58.8 | This is a new season of Out There, and the theme we're exploring this season is silence. |
| 1:06.2 | Each episode will share a story about finding stillness amidst the noise, whether that's literal or figurative. |
| 1:21.0 | Today's story is about reconciling our dreams with reality. Chasing a dream can be wonderful. It's exciting to do something |
| 1:30.9 | you love. But all too often, we end up getting disillusioned, because a lot of times reality |
| 1:38.3 | doesn't measure up to what we imagined. So what then? What do you do? How do you cope when following your dreams pulls you away from what you love about them? |
| 1:52.0 | Samia Buzid has the story. |
| 1:55.0 | When Jesse Rivera started doing astronomy, he had no idea he would fall in love with it. |
| 2:03.1 | At first, he mainly saw it as his ticket to college. It all started his senior year of high school. Spring semester comes along, |
| 2:11.1 | and this professor from the local university gives a talk about post-ar astronomy and says we have these opportunities available for students |
| 2:19.7 | to come, do research for the four years that they're here, and get a bachelor's degree in physics. |
| 2:25.6 | And I was told, you get paid to do this. |
| 2:31.8 | The professor was from the University of Texas at Brownsville, right in Jesse's hometown. |
| 2:37.3 | The school was offering a full scholarship and a four-year research stipend to five students. |
| 2:42.7 | And that sounded pretty good to Jesse, not because he knew the first thing about astronomy, |
| 2:47.6 | but because he liked science and he knew he wanted to go to college, he just didn't |
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