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Terry George, vice president and executive director of Harold KL Castle Foundation, joined Volunteers in Asia as a music student at the Stanford University in the late 70s.
As a member, he spent six months in Sumatra as an English teacher helping nurses and doctors keep up with the latest literature on public health, which humbled him and completely turned around his ideas of what he wanted in life.
His experience in Southeast Asia galvanized him to change his career path.
"It caused me to go back to Stanford, work on international relations so I could figure out as an American and as a resident of Hawaii, how I might be able to give back to other parts of the world," Mr. George said.
In his foreign immersion, Mr. George learned about the value of simplicity, an essential trait for entrepreneurs.
"If you've learned to simplify and reduce your wants, simplify your needs, then your vocational possibility can expand exponentially," he said. "That means you can be an entrepreneur and afford to fail because, if you have what I saw many Indonesians not having, then you could focus on what Maslow says is the search for meaning, and I was able to focus on that. Everything else really fell into place."
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