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Has anyone here traveled extensively? Care to share some stories?
I've been a permanent traveler off and on now for a long time now.
I got bit by the bug 20 years ago when I came to Taiwan to study Mandarin and teach English as a student. Ironically, I'm writing this from Taipei at the moment. Talk about crazy changes.
For the businesses I have - I get to travel a lot. Was in Shanghai last week, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen before that, and before that I was in Bangkok.
I've lived in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Montevideo, Quito (Ecuador), Mexico, India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, New York, Los Angeles, Dubai/ Abu Dhabi, China, Taiwan, and more recently Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
I've done a lot of the usual European travel spots, and some off the beaten path spots in Cambodia and Malaysia. I went surfing in Sri Lanka earlier this year, which was definitely a big highlight.
Aside from the personal growth one goes through by traveling, I do have motivations that are business driven.
A big personal motivation for travel is to avoid what I call Network Atrophy.
I have a bullish view that it's all about the Network and Network Expansion as we move forward.
When you're in the same place, doing the same things, and networking with the same people, your network begins to atrophy. It gets stale.
So does your mental agility.
Not to mention, your exposure to new ideas and your ability to synthesize new ideas weakens when you lock into one place too long.
Travel and the new connections you make in the new places you visit activate different parts of your reasoning. It can expand your mind and network.
Another motivation for travel is The Serendipity Effect.
Being in a new place usually opens you up to new possibilities. It's a default we all have when we view the world through a certain sense of wonderment. Travel brings you to that place and when you're in that place the serendipitous opportunities (meeting people, saying yes to the right things) "fall into your lap". While, they don't literally fall into your lap (you're creating serendipity) - it's always surprising to me how easy it is to assimilate to new networks and gain access to opportunities you never would have accessed from afar.
These two things - Network Expansion + Serendipity gives you a lot of future leverage if utilized correctly.
It certainly has given me an edge versus just traveling as a tourist for travel's sake.
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