Quest Network Blue Zones - Rachel Binns, Love & Decency Expert

Blue Zones - Quest for the true fountain of youth

Rachel Binns, Love & Decency Expert

My first chance to feel like a traveler was when Dan Buettner's Quest team came into my classroom (via the Internet) when I was in high school. The team traversed the hot sands of Africa on their bicycles while my friends and I sat in our air conditioned class room and told them where to go. When they found evidence of human origin or met people who gave them a lead on where to go next, they depended on us, the students, to tell them where to go. I was hooked.

When I finished high school, I continued to follow the quests through the Amazon rainforest, Asia, and the Galapagos Islands. A few years later I graduated from college and began work toward my Ph.D. in Communication. For the last three years, I have been in love up to my eyeballs. Literally. I have dedicated my academic career to studying love and decency in interpersonal relationships.

I believe the secret to a long and healthy life is being a good and decent person, loving deeply, and helping one another without expecting anything in return. I am often inspired by kids because they seem much better than most adults at getting lost in the beauty of a moment and loving others unconditionally.

I'm excited that kids all over the world will be directing my adventures as a part of the BlueZones team, just like I directed the team when I was in high school. I hope you help me find the secrets to living a very long time. Maybe, instead of growing old and sitting on top of a mountain somewhere, I will be a professor in front of a class full of students, whispering the secrets you helped me discover!

Loving Living,

Rachel

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