Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jul 2025 on Hidden Brain.
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The general take
Jon Jachimowicz credits Mountains Beyond Mountains with transforming him at age 18, praising Tracy Kidder's biography of Dr. Paul Farmer and his global public health work with Partners in Health. The book clearly left a significant impact on him personally, though this is one person's perspective rather than a wider consensus.
Who said what
- JJ
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…how a formative book about paul farmer inspired jan's youthful passion
“This book was Mountains Beyond Mountains. It was written by Tracy Kidder, who wrote a biography of Dr. Paul Farmer. Paul Farmer famously was a public health advocate who started Partners in Health, started off in Haiti, and then scaled the organization all around the world. And the book at the time when I was 18, it transformed me.”
Hidden Brain — You 2.0: The Passion Pillat 04:47
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