Simon Sinek describes spending a week in space, circling Earth every 90 minutes and watching entire time zones and cities like Paris and Moscow pass below. The experience shifted his sense of connection to the planet and other people, leaving him with an urge to help Earth.
You spent a week in space. What, what about you? Like, who were you when you launched and who were you when you landed? I launched as a curious explorer, not connected to the planet, but in space. You have this perspective shift called the overview effect where you're going around the entire planet every 90 minutes. And we were flying over Lynchburg, my hometown, looking down and I'm thinking, my parents are probably having meatloaf and mashed potatoes and we're flying five minutes later over Paris and Leo Iheart is saying, yeah, my parents are probably having wine and cheese and Yuri, who's Russian, looks off to Moscow. My parents are probably having borscht. In this little short span of time, we're in multiple time zones and it's just, it's mind blowing. So you come back and if you didn't want to do things to help the planet, help people before you come back because you feel connected to the entire, not just planet, the universe.
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