LeDerick Horne
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300 appearances
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard Aug 2021
LeDerick Horne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I've I've been fortunate that the work has also taken me outside of the US.
Yeah, so I I I took that opportunity to sort of clear out my schedule, right?
I was uh captain of our cross country team.
I quit the cross country team.
I spent every moment I could in our school library.
And in that library I had these two great librarians and I sort of came to them in a moment of crisis.
asking very, very large questions about, you know, like sort of who am I?
Where do I fit in the world?
And I I was fortunate that they were able to sort of steer me towards some some pretty important ideas, right?
I remember digging into Einstein really deep, just trying to figure out how the world worked.
Um and I remember from Einstein getting this appreciation for the the value of point of view for for perspective, that if you could observe certain phenomenon from different point of view, they would appear differently.
And I remember thinking that, well, maybe the reason why my future seems so bleak is because I'm looking at it from a negative perspective.
Um, during that time period I also
Uh remember uh a lot of Nietzsche, you know, and uh reading the
Buddha's first sermon for the first time and reflections on on suffering and you know how so many of our decisions sort of can relate to how much pain we're in.
Um and there was also a lot of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and um the idea that uh society doesn't always get it right as far as uh its ability to define people and their value.
And and I was also very fortunate that um, you know, I grew up in a family that had a strong connection in the civil rights movement.
And so I think I all that gave me permission to be able to redefine who I was.
So I I think that there's uh there's value in in teaching our young people um that they can define who they are.
Um that uh whether it be your your doctor or you know, or if the educators around you aren't all that positive, right, you can take that upon yourself to
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