Moment 4 - How I Discovered A More Grateful Perspective

Uh I went to India for fourteen days. I got to see a lot. I went to the Taj Mahal, I did the touristy stuff. I also went and saw how the people live. I went to the slum in Mumbai I went up a mountain, I went through jungles, I saw it all. I witnessed things I never thought existed, I guess. I I had my perspective changed forever.

We've all seen pictures of slums, right? We've all seen the movies. But I promise you. You have no idea what a slum is like until you go there. I was sweating with the heat. I was overwhelmed by the sound and my eyes saw mess, rubbish, and raw sewage like I've never seen before.

The slum is I I guess the most entrepreneurial place on earth. The whole of India comes there, dumps their rubbish there, and the people that live in the slum basically recycle it to make a living. And so I saw men, children, women recycling TVs to extract the copper from the wires so that they could sell the the melted down copper to the world. I saw them doing the same with um rubber, turning tires into rubber pellets to sell to the world. It's the most resourceful place on earth. But it's the most heartbreaking in the sense that these people are living in conditions you could never even imagine. I will never forget the moment I saw a three year old kid run up to me whilst playing on this pile of rubbish and he squatted down in front of me. And he pooed, and then he peed. And as he

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