Who am I?

My name is Chris Heijjer, and throughout my life, I have nurturerd different interests in literature, medicine, soccer, social psychology, business, and leadership. These pursuits have forced me to think deeply about the connections between seemingly disparate fields. I enjoy thinking about these topics and reconciling the different lessons we can learn from each. 

I want to make it clear that I don’t have all the answers. I am twenty-seven years old. I bring this up, not to shatter my ethos, but to establish a precedence of honesty and transparency. In the past, I would’ve let something like this--my own perceived inexpertise--stand in the way of me starting something important. I don’t see any way around this other than embracing this feeling and working to overcome it. As the saying goes, “The willingness to be an idiot is the precursor to transformation.” 

Although I am embracing this idiocy with full force, I approach these topics with unique experiences and perspective. I played Division I soccer at Clemson University and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. I worked in a hospital as a patient transporter and now I work in Healthtech Sales. These pursuits introduced me to interesting people, new ideas, and different ways of thinking. I’ve supplemented these experiences with hours of reading, watching videos, and writing to simplify and bring these ideas to you in engaging and thoughtful ways. 

Some of the topics I write about are ideas I have learned and implemented; others are theoretical and will require your own experimentation. My goal is that with each article I write I can help my readers get a little smarter, live a little better, and see the world a bit differently.