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WORK JOURNEY
About Me — Desiree Driesenaar
Life & Work with Locals in Blue Zones
Where shall I begin or end? There’s no beginning or end. There’s just life with 8 billion people, trillions of microbes having sex on our skins and cells transforming. Humans being glued to a fast spinning planet.
And the time paradigm changing from Newton (physical) to Einstein (relativity) with a strong focus on sciences. Not religion.
Do you know our planet orbits around the sun with a speed of London-New York in 3 minutes? 67,100 km per hour. 30 km per second. We are hyper-looping all the time. And all we see as humans is a reflection of matter around us. Our own mirror all the time.
Do you know that blind people click their tongues to get around in a city? They hear absorption of reflection the way we see colors. And with neurosciences advancing, we know that people with a visual language perceive colors differently than people with Roman alphabet.
Mono-language people like most English-speakers have a big disadvantage. You don’t know about respect-forms in language. The “U” in Dutch. The “Sie” in German. And the “plural” in Greek.
Math has the same disadvantage. We don’t know anymore about geometry, spatial relations (7D, 6 directions and time), and…