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The Old Wisdom New Era podcast explores the life-changing lessons that form us and give our lives meaning through both desperate and happy times. The conversations consider the experiences and insights that lead us toward maturity.

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Episode 17: The Magic of Unity with Amit Garg

Charles Vogl welcomes Amit Garg who shares his experience making big and international achievements by connecting small groups of people. He also shares his own lessons about the meaning of making a change.

Amit Garg has been working in Technology for 20 years in Silicon Valley. He co-founded Tau Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on early stage Artificial Intelligence in Digital Health, Automation and business-to-business applications. He also cofounded the nonprofit Hospital for Hope which has built a high school lab, a library and a hospital in rural Jharkhand India. It is a place with among the lowest per capita incomes in India.

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In our time, millions of Americans work to build a safer and more just country. This is also the most age segregated era in American history. Our culture lacks adequate forums for new generations to learn and interpret the wisdom previously passed through elders. So, leaders, activists and visionaries often lack access to the hard won lessons from those who stumbled and succeeded before.

Wisdom here refers to the lessons that are not only helpful for us personally in our time, but also durable and true for others in many times. It forms us and informs us in the majority of life where facts alone cannot direct us to a right choice.

Wisdom must be interpreted and applied to a new era.

Host Charles Vogl is the author of three books, including The Art of Community. He is an advisor to globally influential organizations, a former human rights, homelessness and labor activist, PBS documentary filmmaker, and a current Gen X father. He is a founding member of the Google Vitality Lab and studied spiritual traditions and ethics at Yale as a Jesse Ball duPont Foundation Scholar.