How to take a life-changing journey with Pico Iyer

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3 years ago

March 30, 2023

As reality gets more and more virtual, we cry out for the experience of meeting something in the flesh, says Pico Iyer. We long to meet our global neighbors in person, down the street and maybe even across the ocean. Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a global traveler, Pico explains how you can shed preconceived notions of a place and, perhaps more importantly, see your own place in the world with utterly fresh and appreciative eyes.
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Ugly Vance

March 30, 2023 at 2:28 pm

5.5 grams of cubensis is a good start.

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- Max Gorden
  
  March 30, 2023 at 2:57 pm
  
  Based and sporepilled
  
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Saurabh Sigh

March 30, 2023 at 3:05 pm

Id TED really want to chanve then do not charge…

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Peter Weller

March 30, 2023 at 3:19 pm

Expelling tons of carbon gas all the while,
Did you ever think that walking might have been an education in it’s self?I have flown for sport, business and travel.
I am here to tell you right noe that moving slowly on this planet has some amazing benefits.

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- freesk8
  
  March 31, 2023 at 2:11 am
  
  Your climate change hysteria is a religion. And it hurts you.
  
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- Peter Weller
  
  March 31, 2023 at 9:25 am
  
  @freesk8 The same with your problems but it is felt more widely by many others.
  So now you are calling the truth a rekigion?
  
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- freesk8
  
  March 31, 2023 at 4:22 pm
  
  @Peter Weller If you can question it, it is a science. If you can not question it, it is a religion.
  
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- Peter Weller
  
  April 1, 2023 at 7:48 am
  
  @freesk8 You are either well paid or more likely insane. Science explains religion rationalizes.
  
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Panduranga D

March 30, 2023 at 3:49 pm

It’s global village for haves like in India.
It’s really sad life for haven’t ????????

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Michael M

March 30, 2023 at 5:11 pm

Are you talking about being a global homeless

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Siddharth Kulkarni

March 30, 2023 at 8:53 pm

Where to get the money to travel?

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Deep Ashtray

March 30, 2023 at 9:44 pm

Can you get there on a bike? Because transportation is currently the largest single source of CO2 emissions, which is in itself transformative… but not in a good way.

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Happy Killmore

March 30, 2023 at 10:30 pm

1%ers- “Ya see, people just don’t understand that the secret to life is being rich and doing whatever you want. Why won’t everyone else do that?”

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- Chinmay Sanghi
  
  March 31, 2023 at 1:31 am
  
  literally
  
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- Dino Chiesa
  
  April 2, 2023 at 9:29 pm
  
  “When I was in 4th grade I commuted back and forth between California and Oxford, England.”
  Oh! Is that how we should all do it?
  
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Robert Quigley

March 31, 2023 at 8:19 am

May seem silly, a favorite way to *travel* for me are the many many many live videos of folks walking through their cities. Often do not speak. Folks headed to work, out to shop, maybe dinner. Particularly enjoy Asian cities! Very quickly realize these folks are US! No need to fear, hate, commit war against them. Cities are often more advanced, cleaner, people friendly.

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Niranjan Hanasoge

April 1, 2023 at 10:38 am

As a student of science, I know that it takes a trillion (10^12) Pico Iyers to make one full Iyer.

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