June 8, 2026

Everywhere is Possible: Why Staring Before You Feel Ready Changes Everything

Everywhere is Possible: Why Staring Before You Feel Ready Changes Everything

Last July, my family and I were standing in the Badlands when I asked a stranger to take our picture. That stranger was Henry Manuel. At the time, he was riding a motorcycle around the world. We talked for a few minutes, exchanged information, and...

Last July, my family and I were standing in the Badlands when I asked a stranger to take our picture.

That stranger was Henry Manuel.

At the time, he was riding a motorcycle around the world. We talked for a few minutes, exchanged information, and went our separate ways. Or so I thought.

Eight months later, we reconnected for this conversation. And now, as this episode is being released, I'm freshly home from my own solo cross-country road trip. The timing feels too perfect to ignore. Because what started as a chance encounter in South Dakota became a conversation about something much bigger than travel.

It's about saying yes before you're ready. It's about choosing curiosity over fear. It's about concerts, strangers who become friends, unexpected detours, and discovering that some of the best parts of life happen when you stop trying to control every detail.

Henry has spent the last 18 months riding a motorcycle across continents, collecting stories, friendships, and reminders that people are far better than we often give them credit for. And somewhere between the Badlands, Guatemala, Ecuador, and a few conversations about music and adventure, I realized this episode wasn't really about seeing the world.

It's about being open to it. If you've ever felt stuck, burned out, afraid to take the leap, or wondered if there's something more waiting for you on the other side of your comfort zone, this conversation is for you.

Because Henry said something near the end of our conversation that perfectly captures the spirit of this episode:

"Everywhere is possible."

And he's right. In this episode:
• Why travel is really the love of learning
• What fear, excitement, and growth have in common
• The kindness of strangers and the power of human connection
• Why the concerts, adventures, and detours are often what we remember most
• What happens when you stop waiting to be ready
• How saying yes can change the direction of your life

Connect with Henry:
Instagram personal: https://www.instagram.com/another_little_trip/
Instagram photography: https://www.instagram.com/manuel_photos/
Web site: https://anotherlittletrip.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCw3drPrdZiB5zzAuZkd5gmw

Yahoo article: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/teacher-travelling-solo-motorbike-brazil-063022845.html

Henry's song: Tiny Moves, Bleachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpyfDF_pes&list=RDkmpyfDF_pes&start_radio=1

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Hey, do you want to go and do something and

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you think, oh, I'm really tired right now. If I

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go and do this thing, I'm going to be so

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tired tomorrow at work, it's going to be a rubbish day.

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What I've started doing now is thinking in five years time,

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in ten years time, will I remember that I felt

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great that day because I had a good sleep, Or

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will I remember that I had a rubbish day at

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work as I was tired, but that concert was awesome.

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I know what I will remember. I'm going to remember

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the concert was amazing. I'm not going to think, oh

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you remember that. Hey, it's ten years ago that I

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was feeling tired at work. Do you remember that day? No,

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we don't think about that. We think about that amazing

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concert that I went to.

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Henry Manuel, welcome to quick before you forget hi, lo chat,

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I'm so excited that you're here in friends. You don't

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even know what you have in store today, so it's

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going to be so much fun. Today's guest is someone

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who quite literally decided to follow his curiosity and hasn't

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stopped moving since. Henri Manuel is a primary school teacher

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who has spent the last fifteen years living and working

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around the world and is currently riding a motorbike across

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continents in search of something deeper, connection, learning, and what

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it really means to be alive. From jaguars in Brazil

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to strangers who become family. His journey is a powerful

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reminder that the urge to travel is often the urge

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to and I already know that this conversation is one

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that I won't forget anytime soon, partially because I read

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a Yahoo article about your journey Henry then involved jaguars

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and sharks and dog bites, and then ended with something

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completely different. What stayed with you most is the kindness

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of strangers, and I love that contrast so quick before

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you forget, can you take us through one of those

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moments where humanity surprised you in a way that you

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didn't expect.

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Well, in a way Ty, to go back on your

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question already, I think those interactions have not been a

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surprise because, like you said about living abroad for fifteen years,

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and actually my job as a primary school elementary school

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teacher as well with spending most of my time with

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four year old's, five year old six year olds, I

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think one thing that you learn is that people are good.

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We are all born good. I really do believe that.

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that's what we start with. So I was almost expecting

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on this journey, on my drive around the world. Now,

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I was kind of expecting in a way to meet

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wonderful people, and maybe there would be some difficult situations

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along the way here and there, but ultimately people would

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help me or be there to help me solve problems

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in some kind of way. But there have been some

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particularly special moments, for sure. One that was mentioned in

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the Yahoo article was when I met a lovely family

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in El Salvador. We met just in a hostel, and

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hostels are a great place to meet people. Often. Maybe

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that's changed a little bit because people tend to be

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on their phones a bit too much. But on this occasion,

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I started chatting to one member of this family in

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the hostel with my terrible Spanish. I can speak Portuguese

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fairly well because of having lived in Brazil most recently

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for a few years, but Spanish is different and it

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was hard work. But that was part of the where

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the connections started. I suppose that this person's patience with

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my Spanish and trying to help me through the conversation.

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the conversation, and it turns out they are from Guatemala.

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little holiday in El Salvador. They're returning to Guatemala, their

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home just on the edge of Guatemala City, and it

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turns out I'm going there as well as continue doing

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my journey. But then suddenly they're offering for me to

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yes and take advantage of these moments because they always

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end up being so wonderful, so special. And when I

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arrived at their home, I realize even more how special

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not this huge mansion or anything. You know. They're a

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family of five, the three children and the two parents.

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for me so I could stay there, which is part

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of the generosity. We had a lovely dinner together and

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chatting still in my terrible Spanish, and then the next

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day they took me to the nearby lake and showed

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me around there. It's just such a wonderful thing. I'm

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still in contact with them. They still regularly write and

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ask how every thing is going. And yeah, that's something

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that will stay with me forever, and it makes that's

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why I'm doing this these travels. For sure.

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The human connection speaks to my soul and it is

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something that I knew when I friends Henry and I

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met in the bad Lands. We were my family was

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driving through and he was on his motorbike and I

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asked him to take my picture and I used that

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as my profile picture for a while. I could tell

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he was like a photography type because he just looked

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like it like a like he looked you, looked like

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a world traveler. He had, he had the hat that

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was just spot on, and there the fancy camera. And

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I was so grateful to connect with Henry in such

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a unexpected place. You know, it was the bad Lands

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and it was hot. It was like one hundred and

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two degrees that day, was so hot. And I know

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that that is such a gift that you that you

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have with people, to have picked up so many interesting

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friends through through your journey that that is really cool

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for me to hear that you've made this family that

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you keep in touch with. You know, you and I

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have kept in touch. I can't imagine you probably have.

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You've probably collected a good deal of amazing relationships and

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human connection along the way, and that's really fun. So

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can you walk us through a little bit about your journey,

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because I take for granted that I know more than

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anybody that's listening or watching probably knows. So walk us

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through a little bit, you know, take your time and

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tell us kind of what led you to do this

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adventure and you kind of like some of the highlights

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along the way.

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Well, first, I'm glad you brought up about how we

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met Ty, because that's a very important part. I mean,

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as you know, you asked for an example of a

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human connection, and I could have brought up this one

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because that was just so wonderful and like you you

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made you said you recognized in that I was the

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kind of person that you could talk to, and immediately

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it was the other way around as well, for sure,

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And here we are, and here we are, and.

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I'm grateful, I'm so grateful, thank you for that.

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How long ago was that.

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It was, Oh, that's okay. It was in July. Yeah,

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I know, almost six months ago. Eight months ago, I

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don't even know. But it's been a journey since then.

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We were just talking about how it's been. We've both

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had some life happen in the last months that have passed,

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and it's been really core to follow everything that's happened

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with you. I know, you followed what's happened with me,

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When you take the risk and you ask a stranger

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to take your picture. I mean, they could steal your phone.

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That I know that happens, but I tend to I

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tend to be a fairly good judge of character, and

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that's why I knew. I was like, this guy looks

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like he knows what he's doing.

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So yeah, yeah, you didn't really think I was going

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to take your phone? Yeah, Vercial, that would be a

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crazy place in the bad lands, would be a bad

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place to run and run off. So when yeah, when

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I met you, i'd been traveling almost a year by then.

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It's now been eighteen months more or less since I

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left Brazil. I left Brazil in October twenty twenty four,

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with the intention of driving around the world back kind

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of back home, as I've been considering it back home

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to Oxford in England, and I kind of got this

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idea that rewinds further back. As you said, I've lived

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in some other countries as well, and before Brazil was

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the last country, and that's why I started in Brazil.

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But before that, I lived in Kazakhstan, one of the

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biggest countries the world that people haven't heard of, I

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would probably say, or at least not Maybe I've heard of,

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but don't know where. It is so quick geography les lesson.

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It's between China and Russia roughly, and I worked there

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for four years as a primary school teacher, and I

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really I love road trips. I love driving, and I

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wanted to have a vehicle in Kazakhstan. It's a huge country,

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but public transport's not amazing. But even then, to have

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your own vehicle takes travel to another level, I think.

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it was really difficult to get something there. If you're

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a foreigner living in another country, it can be a

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bit tricky. Sometimes not sometimes can be. So I got

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an idea I'll buy my vehicle in England and then

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drive it to Kazakhstan and with my lovely summer holidays.

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As a primary school teacher, I had that time. So

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I bought a car in England, drove it to Kazakhstan

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and had an amazing year traveling around Kazakhstan with my

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car and with friends as as well. But then it

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was time to leave Kazakhstan. But I had this car,

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so well, I've got to drive back home to England

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from Kazakhstan. I'm finishing work, you know, as everyone does

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at the end of the day, they drive back home, right,

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and I thought, wherever I live next, I will drive

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back home when I finish. And the next place I

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lived was Brazil. So when I finished working in Brazil,

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I had to drive back home to England, and well,

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there's oceans in the way, is one issue. But even

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then I decided to go the long way around. I

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could have driven up through the Americas, maybe to New York,

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and then shipped my bike over, but I wanted to

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go the other way, the longer way around. My first

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year roughly was driving Brazil to North America. I went

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all the way up to Alaska and then crossed the

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US twice before flying with my bike from Vancouver to Japan.

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But in our first year, I mean, the contrasts are

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just ridiculous. I know, I know in the US you

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say you are Americans, but the rest of America considers

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themselves Americans as well. Brazilians are Americans. So seeing the

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contrast between those Americans in Brazil and Bolivia was next,

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and Chile, Peru, and then thinking about how different that

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is to the US and Canada is just totally crazy.

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Just it's impossible to We need several episodes to your

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podcast ascribed that tie. So, yeah, you mentioned jaguars. That

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was one of the first things that I did in Brazil.

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I was very fortunate that well I planned it to

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a certain extent, but I happened to be in this

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place that's probably the best place in the world to

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see jaguars in the wild, and I happened to be

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there at the best time of the year to see

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jaguars in the wild there and you just go on

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this little boat, I mean, it was little along the

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river and then just suddenly, five the ten meters I

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don't want to exaggerate. Ten meters away on the bank

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are these two jaguars, this mother and child going along

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the bank, you know, just on the side of the

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almost putting their feet in the water, looking for the

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alligators to eat. Just just wild, just totally, I mean,

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they were wild. It was wild experience. And then and

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then another jaguar starts crossing the river with a massive

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snake in its mouth. Just totally incredible to see those things.

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In Bolivia, I stayed with some wonderful people there. I

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don't know whether utaie or listeners have heard of couch

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surfing or bunk a biker. These are both wonderful networks

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where you can stay with people, and I mean that's it, basically,

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that is the nub of it, to stay with people.

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It's free, and it's all about cultural exchange, to meet

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amazing people. And I suppose there's an element of helping people,

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surf in many countries, and bunker biker as well. That's

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more aimed at bikers of course. So so yeah, the beginning

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of the trip with jaguars was just incredible. And then

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what else the other highlights. Peru is just an incredible country.

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The mountains there are just so beautiful. That the highest

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tunnel in all of them, all of the Americas, is

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in Peru. It's that I'll have to translate this to

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it's four seven hundred meters, so what's that like? Fourteen

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thousand feet there's a road tunnel going through the mountain

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at this height, it's just incredible. And I drove up

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this winding road to get to this tunnel, and just

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as I got to the top with the tunnel, there

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there's a guy playing the saxophone in front of the

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glacier right there. Well, and it turns out he's he's

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mining for a music video that he's recording. I just

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the these things that can happen, it's just wonderful. I

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could tell you a thousand different highlights from from that part.

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It's very tricky to explain everything.

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Well, I want to encourage people to go and watch

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your channel because your channel has it's called Another Little

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Trip on YouTube, and you have You've documented a lot

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of this journey there, and I think that people would

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find it super entertaining to go. And we're just we're

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scratching the surface of the things that you've shared there.

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So that's a that's a good opportunity for people that

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are curious to go and see and learn more about

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your journey and to see some of more of these

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these incredible highlights. Because I'm wondering, when you're sharing this,

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these these unreal moment if you will, like, what does

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that unlock in you that you wouldn't have gotten? Like,

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what does travel unlock in you that you would that's

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staying in one place?

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Couldn't you mentioned it briefly in the introduction about travel

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being growing one wonderful thing that from the traveling that

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I've been doing, and maybe maybe that for the first

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thing to define is is the difference between travel and

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a holiday. I love holidays for sure. You know, a

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holiday is a week or two maybe it could just

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even be a weekend and you just take a break

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from what you from your hectic work schedule and stuff,

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and you just want to go and see something cultural,

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or lie by the pool for a day, or go

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to a nice restaurant and treat yourself. I don't know,

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you know, that's a lovely holiday, But traveling is like

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stretching that out so much and taking the time to

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experience different things, and yeah, it's the time is the

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key there. I think my whole trip is two years,

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so I've got a whole lot of time to spend

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and think about things, and I've been reflecting a lot.

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I think I'm as someone who reflects upon myself a

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lot anyway, But when you're on the motorbike and driving

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through mountains and stuff, then you have even more time

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to think about things. And one thing that I sort

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of realized and thought about a lot and realized is

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that that's what the love of travel is. It's the

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love of learning. And this was a lovely thing to

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realize being a teacher as well, I suppose, and it's

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hopefully something that I can pass on to my pupils.

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Maybe I've been doing it in the past, hopefully I

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can do it in the future as well. So yeah,

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I think that that realizing that so that's what travel is, has,

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as you said, unlocked something in this to a certain extent,

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because I certainly enjoyed my travels for sure, and seeing

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all these different places, but realizing what that actually means,

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understanding the depth of it, then I think has been

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really important to how I see things Wherever I am.

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And that's what the travel gives, all those opportunities to

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learn from people, learn from the places, learned, learned from

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the history of different places. And yeah, everyone's got something

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to learn, for sure. We should never stop trying to

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do that. For sure.

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What has the journey taught you about fear that you

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didn't understand before.

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Is a really interesting question, Tie, I have never considered that.

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Now now I feel I want to get on my

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motorbike and drive for three hours to reflect upon that

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about fear, you know, I don't think that's not something

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that comes into my mind very often at all. I

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think when when I'm traveling. I don't know whether everyone

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does this. I'll be interested with what you think about

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this time. When I'm traveling. Each trip I do, each trip,

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I plan I want to go outside my comfort zone

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a little bit. And I suppose that's that is a way.

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I suppose in a way, that is what fear and

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the comfort zone is all about, right, just pushing things

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a little bit more. I've done a few trips, so

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I would I think my my comfort zone is quite large.

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Maybe it's a bit bigger than some other people's because

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to me, driving around the world on a motorbike. It

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is only just a tiny bit outside my comfort zone. Really,

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it's I'm not that afraid of it. But driving my

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motorbike on a narrow mountain cliff road which you can

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certainly see in some of my YouTube videos with no

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barrier on the side, just clouds, so you can't even

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see how far you will fall. Yeah, that's outside my

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comfort zone. But but still it's it's it's within side

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of my comfort zone. I'm not leaping out of my

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comfort zone too into nowhere. I'm still just I'm still

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feeling safe enough that I'm not crying or anything. You know,

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it's tough. It was, It's been tough sometimes when I've

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done that, and there's been a couple of times when

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I've thought, why am I doing this again? But I

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know that if you're there, are just outside the comfort

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zone and it's a little bit scary, then it's definitely

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going to be worth it when you get to the end.

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Perhaps if it's too far outside your zone, then that

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the balance isn't right. You're You're gonna get to the

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end and okay, feel glad you got to the end.

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But but there's been too much fear that it's it's

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it's not worth it. So hopefully I've got that balance

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just about right. When I've been doing that interesting question, Well.

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Fear and excitement are the same chemical in your brain,

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so we get to decide what we're feeling in the moment.

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And that's a really cool mindset shift that I've been

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practicing for the last years to decide to be excited

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when I feel the fear. I'm not I'm not not

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feeling the fear. I'm still feeling the fear. Like I

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have done fifty four i think, if I'm counting right,

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roller coasters in the last two years. And I never

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did a roller coaster before I was thirty eight years old.

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When I did my first one, and I thought I

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was dying, like I was like this, I'm it's over.

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I've gone to heaven. It's done. And I have been practicing, actively,

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intentionally practicing fear on roller coasters because I've decided to

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be excited about it. I've decided to embrace it. Because

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you know what happens when you're talking about your comfort zone, henry,

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growth and learning happen on the other side of that

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comfort zone. So from you to say that you know

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you you think your comfort zone is fairly large, and

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you have you know, you have just had this practice

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of pushing yourself kind of pushing a little harder or

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pushing a little further, or like you said, you you chose,

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you chose intentionally to go the longer way or the

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harder way. And I think that there's a lesson there, Henry,

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because I think that people could learn from your skill

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in that area. So I'm curious how you would coach

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somebody through it, Like if you're thinking about like growth

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happening on the other side of the comfort zone, and

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comfort zones are hard for people in general, how would

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you coach a friend through working through that uncomfortable comfort

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zone spot that they're in.

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I suppose what I've done is pushed my zone in

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a certain area. And maybe one thing to think about

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is that zone isn't just a circle in a perfect

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circle around you in the middle. It's sticking out one

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way in one place and maybe in another area it's

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really close to you. In another part it's miles away.

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And therefore, but you don't have to have this perfect zone.

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It's all right to be scared of some things and

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then more comfortable with others. What I think I've done

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is really pushed in one particular area and maybe another

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area I've not worried about so much. I'm trying to think.

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I've just thought something that I am not comfortable with.

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And I love snorkeling, but scuba diving. Ah no, no,

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that's too much. So do I want to push in

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that zone? No, I'm fine. Actually no, I'll leave it

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where it is. So my zone is very dented. It's

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one part is really close to me, and that's fine.

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Don't worry about that. You don't need to push every part,

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but find maybe one bit that you are strong with

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and push in that area. And I the the motorbike

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that I have now that I'm doing this trip on.

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It's the only bike I have ever owned. I bought

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the bike. I learned how to drive a motorbike bike

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after I came up with the plan to drive around

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the world. So but I have built up on this slowly.

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I drove to Kazakhstan and back. A couple of years

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before that, I bought a little scooter and I drove

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it across Indonesia. That gave me the idea for more

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more trips. That gave me the idea of maybe a

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motorbike might be interesting. So I pushed you know, this

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road trip zone a little bit further. I then I

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learned to drive a motorbike. I pushed it a little

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bit further. I did some trips in South America when

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I lived in Brazil. I pushed it further. That scuba

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diving zone is still still very close to me. But

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I'm still pushing this one bit out. So I think

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it's all right. Maybe, you know, thinking about coaching someone,

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you don't need to be amazing at everything. You don't

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have to be fearless of everything. You can just focus

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on one thing and keep pushing that part of the

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zone and be amazing at that part. Or yeah, whichever

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part you are more comfortable with, that's the better part.

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To keep pushing and become less afraid of.

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Thank you for that. So it got me thinking about

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when things do go wrong, because they do, you know,

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things do happen, Things do go wrong, and they have

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for you. What's the voice in your head saying that

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keeps you going when that happens.

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This might be hard for some people to appreciate, but honestly,

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the voice what I'm hearing when something goes wrong is ah,

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this could be really fun. And I know ye that

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that might be hard to to to really see sometimes

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for some people. I don't know. But when I got

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bidden by a dog, for example, in a in a

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fairly rural area of Ecuador is where I was, Yes,

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it did hurt a lot, and I did swear once,

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maybe twice, but once I was able to pull up

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my trousers and look at my knee, just above my

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knee where the dog had bitten. And then this woman

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came out from this house nearby, and then her whole

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family came out, and then this I think the woman's

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husband said he would give me. I said, he didn't say.

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He just turned up with the car suddenly and gave

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me a lift down the road into the town where

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we discovered the hospital was closed because it was a Sunday.

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Very quickly after the initial swearing and discovering the blood,

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very quickly I thought, oh, this could be fun. The

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guy's the guy's car was really old, it's kind of

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like a classic. That was kind of fun. And then

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the hospital being closed, I thought, oh, wow, what are

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we going to do next? Even that was fun. Then

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I got Eventually we found these kind of firemen, health

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and safety guys, and I got in their truck and

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they put the flashing light on and the sirens. That

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was so fun. It was such a such a great experience.

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In the end, I mean, maybe if it had been

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a more serious injury and I was in more pain

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than okay, the perspective is different. But there's still interesting things.

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about the pain that I was going through. I don't

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think about Honestly, I wasn't that worried. I just thought

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it's going to be fine, even when I was asking

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about you know what about rabies, jabs and stuff, and

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I still I was in this lovely hospital. Lovely It

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wasn't a lovely hospital. It was a very basic hospital,

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but the people were lovely and they were looking after

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me and laughing a bit when I was kind of

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biting my fist because they were cleaning the wound out

459
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:31.880
and it hurt a bit, but even that was kind

460
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:36.000
of fun. And yeah, if you want to see the blood,

461
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.759
then you can look at the YouTube episode you don't

462
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:43.000
don't don't worry if you don't want too tight. But

463
00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:47.759
things like that when I got sick and I was

464
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.519
in a hospital and Nicaragua for three days. There was

465
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:58.200
a kind of fun experience. Lovely doctors were coming into chat. Yeah, things.

466
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.319
I ran out of petrol couple of times, once put

467
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.680
in Alaska and once on the interstate in Minnesota, I

468
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:13.000
think it was, and both experiences were lovely. In the end,

469
00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:16.920
this guy stopped on the interstate to pick me up

470
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:20.079
and I sat in the back of the truck. They

471
00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:23.240
took me to the gas station and I filled up.

472
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:27.319
I gave his kids some biscuits and we had a

473
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:33.400
lovely chat. Yeah, you can get wonderful experiences when things

474
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.079
go wrong because it brings out the best out in people.

475
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.240
People want to help you and then you have these

476
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:50.319
lovely connections again, so that there's always a positive side

477
00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:55.119
of those problems. Yeah, it can be fun. You know.

478
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.640
When I was growing up, one of the things that

479
00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.880
I remember that my mom used to to do was

480
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.480
when things went wrong, we'd make it into an adventure.

481
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:10.039
Like it made it less hard because you're thinking, well,

482
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.160
now it's an adventure. When it poured when we were

483
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.640
expecting it to be sunny and beautiful and it like

484
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.240
rained the day out, it was an adventure or you know,

485
00:32:18.599 --> 00:32:21.759
and I love that because bad things are going to

486
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.000
happen and we don't have any control over them, but

487
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:26.880
we do control how we respond to them. And there's

488
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.519
there's something to be said about choosing to have it

489
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.720
be an adventure, and a lot of that stuff is

490
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:35.839
legit henry, like getting bit by a dog, a strange

491
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:37.960
dog in a strange country, and like not knowing if

492
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.759
you're going to get rap, Like that's something to be

493
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:43.759
concerned about, and I don't want to like diminish the

494
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.759
severity of that. But also you're like, well, this could

495
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.079
be fun, and I think a lot of us, a

496
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.519
lot of us could benefit from kind of just remembering

497
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:57.599
that when those bad things happen, it's how we react

498
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.119
to them that not only matters in them, but matters later.

499
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:04.119
Like you're looking back on those things fondly, as opposed

500
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.440
to having it be some kind of horrible, awful thing.

501
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.200
It was that the hospital, which was quite basic, was lovely,

502
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.000
and the people were lovely, and the keumen connection that

503
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.200
happened was lovely. And it's just it's a testament to

504
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:21.160
deciding and in the opportunity that you have to decide,

505
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.920
like hey, this can be fun, even when it seems

506
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:26.359
maybe not so fun.

507
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.839
The perspective, like you said, the perspective looking knowing that

508
00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:33.880
when you look back on it, what you will look

509
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.680
back on I think is vital there. And it's something

510
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.480
that I really I really apply, not even just the problems,

511
00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:45.920
but in everyday life when I'm working as well, and

512
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:51.319
I think it's about making the most of opportunities as well.

513
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.720
And if someone says, hey, do you want to go

514
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:59.480
and do something, and you think, oh, I'm really tired

515
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:03.279
right now. If I go and do this thing, I'm

516
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:06.880
going to be so tired tomorrow at work, it's going

517
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:11.639
to be a rubbish day. What I've started doing now

518
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:16.599
is thinking in five years time, in ten years time,

519
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:20.079
will I remember that I felt great that day because

520
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.880
I had a good sleep. Or will I remember that

521
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:26.320
I had a rubbish day at work as I was tired,

522
00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:31.199
but that concert was awesome. I know what I will remember.

523
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:33.920
I'm going to remember the concert was amazing. I'm not

524
00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:37.239
going to think, oh you remember that, Hey, it's ten

525
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:39.800
years ago that I was feeling tired at work. Do

526
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.119
you remember that day? No, we don't think about that.

527
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.679
We think about that amazing concert that I went to.

528
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:48.360
So it's the same thing exactly like you said, it's

529
00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:53.039
the perspective and trying to put yourself into the future

530
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.519
and think what it's going to be like and make

531
00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:59.400
the most of what is happening right now, because if

532
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:01.920
you make the most, then that's what you will remember.

533
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.199
Yet I love a good concert and I always pay

534
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.599
for it after in the last year, I've been to

535
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:11.360
more concerts than It's all part of the whole fear

536
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:13.880
and excitement thing for me because I've been to more

537
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:17.519
concerts than I probably should at forty years old, but

538
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.199
I enjoy it so much. And Henry, I jump. I

539
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.360
don't know what happens, but like, I'm not physically able

540
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:27.639
to jump for three hours, but in the concert settings

541
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:31.079
somehow I'm able. And then three days, four days a

542
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.760
week after I'm still struggling. But it's so worth it,

543
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:36.960
like you said, it's so freaking worth it. And even

544
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.800
that has to do with human connection, because you know

545
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:42.960
the friends and stuff that I've made at these shows,

546
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:46.360
and at these you know, there were all coming together

547
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:48.920
with something that we care about, which is really cool.

548
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:54.719
So you've experienced a lot of kindness from strangers. Why

549
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:56.840
do you think we underestimate people so much?

550
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:01.519
Oh? Who is doing that? Time? Oh? I don't think

551
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:02.920
you and I are We're not.

552
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.079
But I do know that there's there's people out there

553
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.039
that do. And I'm curious, like, what what are what

554
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:10.800
are we? What are they missing that that we that

555
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:13.159
we know? What that what that Henry knows? Like what

556
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:17.280
could they learn from how Henry sees people in human connection?

557
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.440
Are people not just giving it a chance? I understand,

558
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:30.199
you know, two difficult things happen to people, for sure,

559
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:35.480
and maybe to a certain extent, I'm I'm fortunate enough

560
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:40.159
that that, you know, some some knock good things have

561
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:43.079
happened my life, sure, but but but not as bad

562
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:47.039
as some other people. Okay, you know, I'm sure I'm

563
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:51.039
fortunate enough in that respect. So maybe for some people

564
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:54.920
things have really knocked knocked their confidence back and it's

565
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.320
difficult to regain that. Then maybe that just goes back

566
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:01.039
to the like the com the zone kind of thing

567
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.719
we were talking about, and people have lost some people

568
00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:10.159
have lost confidence in humankind or whatever. And I can

569
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.679
understand that from external things as well that are going

570
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:19.079
on in the world right now, all over the world.

571
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.840
So so that so that loss of confidence is understandable

572
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.199
in many ways. But but if people give it a

573
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.639
chance and just creep up, creep out a little bit

574
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:36.400
of that you know, confidence zone maybe to see what

575
00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.119
is possible and then just push a little bit further.

576
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:41.639
It doesn't have to be again kind of like going

577
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:42.960
back to what we said before, it doesn't have to

578
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:48.079
be a massive leap. If someone's a little bit thinking

579
00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:50.000
about a concept time, I mean, I would love to

580
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.119
go to a concert with you. It sounds fun. When

581
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:56.519
I was living in Brazil, I resolved to myself that

582
00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:00.719
I would go and see minimum average through concerts a

583
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:05.320
week and I was just so good. Yeah, often tired

584
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.760
at work, but it didn't matter because partly I'm surrounded

585
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:14.480
by twenty kids, but also the music just is totally

586
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:20.079
worth it anyway. So you know, if someone's fearful they

587
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.599
kind of want to go to a concert, but they

588
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.679
don't want to be jumping up around at the front

589
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:29.199
with utai, then that's fine. Don't do that. To stand

590
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:34.639
at the back and just first little step to see

591
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.760
what is possible, and then maybe the second time you go,

592
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.800
you step a few more forward and where it's a

593
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.039
little bit more busy and bit more cheering and stuff

594
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:48.480
like that. I remember going to a concert, one of

595
00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:51.559
my first ever concerts that I went to when I

596
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.639
was like fifteen or something like that, and I wanted

597
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:56.760
to stand at the back. My friend wanted to go

598
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.360
into the moshpit at the front, and I really I

599
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:03.280
was reluctant. So so I did. I think it was

600
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.800
his birthday, so I thought, okay, I'll go with you.

601
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:15.800
I lost my jumper and my glasses within seconds, I

602
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.400
found my glasses a miracle, but I never got that

603
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.440
jumper back. I went back. I went to the back

604
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:28.440
again after that. So so so in a way I've

605
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:36.320
experienced that as well, you know, metaphorically efforts. So yeah,

606
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:38.480
I can understand how how that can happen. But it

607
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:42.079
is possible, I think, to regain that confidence in people, for.

608
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:47.480
Sure, Amen, I hope so, because you know, one one conversation,

609
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:52.480
one connection at a time, it's happening, particularly with humans

610
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:56.880
like yourself out there exploring and meeting people every single day,

611
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.960
which is such such a special gift that you give

612
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:03.920
to everybody that you meet. So, speaking of which, at

613
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:05.800
the end of all this, when you're done with the

614
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:09.039
whole journey. What do you hope the journey gives you

615
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:10.599
that you didn't have before.

616
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:18.480
I mean, every time I'm traveling, I'm already thinking about

617
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:23.519
the next traveling trip. So I don't know, toy. I

618
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:26.840
don't know whether it's something entirely new. I think it's

619
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:34.559
just wanting more of what I've already been doing. It's

620
00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:36.880
not like this trip is the first time I've done

621
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:41.280
something like this. You know, it's been something building on something,

622
00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:46.559
building on building and building, So I'm not sure I

623
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.840
can say it's something there is something totally new, it's

624
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:53.320
just wanting more of the same. And I suppose being

625
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:57.639
I could say though, that each time I do a

626
00:40:57.679 --> 00:40:59.800
trip like this, and it was the same when I

627
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.960
started living in other countries and not being sure about

628
00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:07.440
what I wanted in my whole life, not being sure

629
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.559
And I'm the first country I lived in outside the

630
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:18.400
UK was China I moved to fifteen years ago. Yeah, almost,

631
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.159
I moved to China. I had never been to China

632
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.960
when I moved there. And I remember going back to

633
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:29.599
England after living in China for the for a first

634
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:34.719
year and people asking me back in England, so how

635
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.199
do you do you like living in China, And weirdly

636
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:42.119
I had never thought about it before people started asking me,

637
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:51.519
and I thought, oh, I I don't know, do I.

638
00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:55.239
It took me ages to answer that question. Ages. It

639
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:58.880
was well into my second year of living in China

640
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:02.440
that I that I realized, yes, I do like living

641
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:06.559
in China, but actually I just like living in other countries.

642
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:13.159
So that was certainly a big realization then that that's

643
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:17.719
what I wanted to do, to keep living in other countries.

644
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.880
And then since then it's just reinforcing that that's what

645
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:26.239
I want to do, and traveling around now I'm even

646
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:29.719
more sure. And I suppose I've probably added some places

647
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:32.800
on my long long list of places that I'd like

648
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:38.159
to live. So yeah, it's not something necessarily completely new,

649
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:41.119
but just reinforcing things I think I already.

650
00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:44.960
Knew, including that you like to think forward, you like

651
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:48.559
to think what's next. So that leads me to wonder,

652
00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:52.599
how do you stay grounded in the present when you're

653
00:42:53.599 --> 00:42:56.760
kind of one foot next and one foot forward all

654
00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:57.199
the time.

655
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:03.159
Someone asked me this just a few months ago, actually,

656
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:05.920
and I think, I mean, I do have the benefit

657
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:13.000
of time when I'm traveling this much because sometimes when

658
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:18.480
you're traveling or not just not even just in not

659
00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:27.559
even just traveling, just in everyday life, it's easy to

660
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:34.320
get distracted by things and and and not be stay

661
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:39.719
in that moment. M maybe I'm maybe being grounded and

662
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:44.960
being in the moment similar but different. I suppose, aren't

663
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:51.199
they well being grounded. I suppose this perspective is the

664
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:55.199
important part, right you said about looking into the future

665
00:43:56.079 --> 00:44:00.320
and thinking from the future what the present looks like. Well,

666
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:04.880
and I suppose that perspective is important. And maybe the

667
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.519
more you travel, the more perspective you are given as

668
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:15.360
well to help you be grounded. I've I was spent

669
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:19.840
time in New York and Chicago. South Power is one

670
00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:23.280
of the biggest cities in the world where I always

671
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:30.920
spent time in Tokyo Bangkok, this you know, incredibly affluent metropolis.

672
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.840
But then I've also spent time with this family in Guatemala.

673
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:41.360
I've stayed in a hotel. I mean, I don't know

674
00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:43.559
what I can say. It was a hotel, a room

675
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:50.760
of someone's house in Bolivian the Bolivian countryside, which was

676
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:57.320
different to how I stayed in some places. The whole

677
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.840
range of different places meeting the whole range different people,

678
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.079
people who've got everything, people have got almost nothing, and

679
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:10.920
that perspective, it's not just time, but it's also the

680
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:14.880
perspective of different people. I think that can keep you grounded.

681
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.320
I know every day, I know that I'm incredibly fortunate

682
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:23.559
enough to be doing what I'm doing. In a way,

683
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:26.400
I've worked hard for it. I saved up money for

684
00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:29.199
many years so that I could do this. But also

685
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:36.159
I know that I'm incredibly fortunate privilege to be able

686
00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:39.199
to do this kind of thing. And I think meeting

687
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:42.239
all the different kind of people that I've met and

688
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:46.440
seeing the way people live gives you that perspective for sure.

689
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:50.400
What would you tell twenty two year old you if

690
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:50.800
you could?

691
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:55.800
Can? I ask you first time? Why do you ask

692
00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:57.880
twenty two?

693
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.079
Why twenty two? That's a great question that nobody's asked

694
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:05.239
me yet, Thank you, Henry. I pick twenty two because

695
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.920
I have done a lot of mindset work in the

696
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.920
last few years, and one of the things that I've

697
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.719
learned is we are as old as we think we are.

698
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:19.199
Your brain is a powerful thing, and in my head, Henry,

699
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.239
I have decided that I am twenty two, and I

700
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:24.639
know I'm not. Everybody knows I'm not. I've already talked

701
00:46:24.679 --> 00:46:26.599
about being forty. I turned forty last year. I actually

702
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:28.440
turned forty about a week before I met you. So

703
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:33.760
I just have decided that life is this gift that

704
00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:36.800
we're given and we get to choose, you know, all

705
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:39.320
these different things. And one of the choices that I

706
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:41.599
make every day is that I'm very grateful to be here.

707
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:44.679
I'm very grateful to be alive and have what feels

708
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.480
like a second chance at life after I was very sick,

709
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:52.079
and twenty two was a pivotal age when things happened

710
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.000
and I made I made some bad decisions, and I

711
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.159
made some bad choices, and I wish I could go

712
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.920
back and talk to her and tell her a lot

713
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:03.800
of different things. So that's why I asked the question,

714
00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.000
and it's a question that I've been asking. I think

715
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.559
I've managed to ask it almost every time so far,

716
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:11.760
in almost two dozen conversations. So you're the first one

717
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:13.639
that said, hey, turned it back on me and said

718
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.840
why twenty two. But that's why, because I do think

719
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:19.320
that it's it's too pronged answer, where I believe that

720
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:22.760
we have we have some amount of say, you know

721
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.639
over where our head is at in our age. And

722
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:28.480
also it was a pivotal age for me when I

723
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.159
need I wish I could go back and do some

724
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:33.760
things differently. So that's that's why I ask, and now

725
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.960
I need to know Henry, like, what would you tell

726
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.519
your twenty two year old self.

727
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.840
Well, you chosen twenty two yourself, so that means I

728
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:43.039
could choose a different age.

729
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.800
You could, Yes, according to the rules.

730
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.840
I being a primary school teacher, I normally teach sort

731
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.440
of six year old seven year olds. And I'm one

732
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:57.599
thing about that. I really believe with education, and it's

733
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.559
different in lots of different schools and country and different

734
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:05.000
systems that when you're younger, when you're that age, that

735
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:09.760
it's you want things to be as free as possible.

736
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.880
I mean not just well, it depends everyone's different. Everyone's different,

737
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:20.239
and of course in all way, I advocate for having

738
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:24.039
classrooms of children with a teacher. That is my job,

739
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:28.639
but it's not right for everyone. But as much as

740
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:32.679
possible things can. You need to have freedom when you

741
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:36.639
are young to make your own choices and to learn

742
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.480
from those choices as long as you are reflecting upon

743
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:45.039
them and learning from them. Then people should have that freedom.

744
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:48.199
And even when you're twenty two, I mean I was.

745
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:51.360
I've been at the university for three years. By the

746
00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:55.079
time I was twenty two, I didn't know what I

747
00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:58.880
was doing in life then. I mean, I was at

748
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.599
university studying, but I didn't know what I was going

749
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:06.119
to end up with. Did I know then that I

750
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.840
wanted to live abroad. I didn't even know I was

751
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:10.920
going to be wanted to be a teacher. At that point.

752
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:15.039
I had no idea at all. Driving a motorbike wasn't

753
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.239
even in my mind at all. No. Wait, so at

754
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.000
twenty two I was still I mean, if I had

755
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.199
to say something to when I was twenty two, then

756
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:29.079
I'd say, just just be free and do whatever you

757
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:33.599
want to do within reason. But I would have said

758
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:36.639
the same thing to me when I was five years old,

759
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:43.039
six seven, twenty two, still to my forty four year

760
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.199
old self as well, probably I think as well, to

761
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:51.679
really do you what makes you happy, what makes you you,

762
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:56.039
because I think too many people don't do that. At

763
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:59.119
twenty two, when I was at university, there were lots

764
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:02.760
of people who well, some people had already graduated and

765
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:06.719
already started at work, and they're still doing those same

766
00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:11.119
jobs now, which they chose because they had to choose

767
00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:15.840
university when they were sixteen or seventeen and didn't choose

768
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:21.280
the right thing. But they were maybe told to some

769
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:25.079
people were told to, you know, by a parent or

770
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:29.679
a teacher, you should do this, and then suddenly, you know,

771
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:32.719
twenty five years later, they're still doing the same thing.

772
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.719
But they didn't really like it. So that's what I

773
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:39.079
would go and tell my twenty two year old self,

774
00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:42.559
but also my twelve year old self, my thirty two

775
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:46.000
year old self, my forty two year old self. Do

776
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:52.519
what makes you happy, and there are caveats to that.

777
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.639
You know, you need to have a job often to

778
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:58.079
be able to do the things that make you happy. Sure,

779
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:02.599
I wouldn't traveling around the world on my motorbike if

780
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:05.199
I didn't have a job to earn money to do that. Sure,

781
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:10.920
but to find what makes that it's going to be

782
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:13.920
able to do that. I'm very fortunate. I love my

783
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:18.039
job of a primary school teacher. I'm also enjoying taking

784
00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:19.880
a break from it for two years to travel, but

785
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:24.559
I'm very excited to go back to teaching in five

786
00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:30.800
months time. So yeah, I'm very fortunate enough, but to

787
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.679
have that or or is it that I made sure

788
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:36.400
I found that I wasn't a teacher when I was

789
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:40.440
in my mid twenties. I was doing another job and

790
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.519
I changed because I was not happy doing that.

791
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:48.119
Nearing the end of the journey, what do you think

792
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:50.320
as of right now? I know that there could be

793
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.440
more between now and five months, but as of right now, like,

794
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:55.760
what do you think you're going to go back to

795
00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:59.800
the classroom with most Like what's something that stands out

796
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:02.760
to you that you've learned or an experience that you've

797
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:05.960
had that you're that you know is going to impact

798
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:09.440
how you behave or how you teach in the classroom.

799
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:15.239
I like the end of that question, Tai about how

800
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:18.079
I behave in the classroom, because I think that's what

801
00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.199
it is going to be. It's not going to be

802
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.239
a particular lesson. Hey, kids, sit down, let me tell

803
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:26.480
you this one thing I learned. I don't think that's

804
00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:28.880
what it is. I think it will be the kind

805
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:34.239
of person I am, And I think what I always,

806
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.800
what I really feel is that the relationship between the

807
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.679
teacher and the child is the most important thing in

808
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:46.320
the classroom, and if you have that have a strong relationship,

809
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:50.000
then I mean, magical things can happen. You know, the

810
00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:53.679
very best learning can come from that. So if I

811
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:57.719
am the best person I can be, if I am

812
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:02.159
open to the it's ideas, too ready to listen, if

813
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:05.360
if if I'm the right person for them, then then

814
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.119
we will have that relationship. And I and I think

815
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:12.559
all the connections that I've made on my travels, meeting you,

816
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:16.840
meeting everyone, then that's made me who I am. That's

817
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:19.400
made me the kind of person who can connect with

818
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:27.119
my my future pupils in the classroom. That that's that's

819
00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:30.840
what's uh, that's what I've kind of learned, I suppose

820
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:33.440
from from these experiences. Yeah, that's what I will take

821
00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:35.599
to the classroom.

822
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:38.400
That's beautiful. As a as a parent that has younger kids,

823
00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:42.639
I think that you're absolutely right in the relationship between

824
00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:46.440
the kids and the teacher mattering a lot, and you've

825
00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:49.360
garnered so many different perspectives that you can take with

826
00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:51.400
you into the classroom, which I think is a gift

827
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.320
not only for yourself, but it will you know, ripple

828
00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:57.719
into the classroom that you're that you're teaching. So that's

829
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:00.159
really that's a that's a gift for them as well

830
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:03.800
as yourself. And speaking of gifts, I'm wondering if you

831
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:06.400
had a megaphone, Henry, Like, if you had a megaphone

832
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.119
and everybody had to listen, like everybody in the world

833
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:11.440
was forced to listen to Henry for you know, thirty

834
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:19.400
to ninety seconds, what would you say?

835
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:21.920
The walls in a bit of a tricky place right now,

836
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:26.320
isn't it. Lots of people are really angry at each

837
00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:30.079
other for some reason. I mean for some reason, for

838
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:34.519
lots of different reasons, I should say, And isn't it frustrating?

839
00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:39.800
But when when I have been able to have all

840
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:45.000
these wonderful experience with experiences with different people from I've

841
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:47.599
been this is I think I'm in the nineteenth country

842
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:52.239
on my trip. By the end it'll be forty or

843
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:57.000
something I can't even remember. I've met people of all

844
00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:02.159
different backgrounds, cultures, religion, and you know what, we all

845
00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:06.800
got on really well. There were not issues here. It

846
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:12.119
is possible I'm going to struggle to fit into a

847
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:18.119
sixteen thirty second megaphone speech tie, but we can all

848
00:55:18.199 --> 00:55:22.880
get on. There doesn't have to be arguments between us

849
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.800
differings of opinion. Yes, for sure, that's fine. But we

850
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:30.280
don't have to argue about it. We can just talk

851
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:33.719
about it and get on and have a good time

852
00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:35.880
and enjoy each other's company.

853
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:41.159
Speaking of having a good time, I am curious when

854
00:55:41.199 --> 00:55:43.239
you said you were going to three concerts a week.

855
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:46.880
That's a lot. But also music is one of my

856
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:49.960
love languages, as I think you know, and I'm wondering,

857
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:53.360
what is your song like you? Do you listen to

858
00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:56.199
music when you're traveling like I guess this is two

859
00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:59.400
questions because I'm curious if you're alone with your thoughts

860
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:02.079
while you're on your bike, or do you listen to music?

861
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.679
And then what is your like song of survival? The

862
00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:07.679
song that you turn on when you need a reminder,

863
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.840
you just need to kind of come home to yourself.

864
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:16.119
Well, first, I listen to a music a lot. Yeah,

865
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:20.000
when you're driving a motorbike, the wind is so loud

866
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:24.639
that you you can just put ear foot either wear

867
00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:28.320
ear plugs or if I have earbuds, or people get

868
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:31.800
speakers in their helmets. So I listen to a lot

869
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:36.920
of music and podcasts as well. Actually, but I try

870
00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:40.159
and mix it up, so sometimes I just put ear

871
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:42.639
plugs in and I want to enjoy what I'm seeing.

872
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:45.400
Sometimes I put my ear plugs in and I'm just

873
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:50.599
reflecting about everything. And then another time, you know, from

874
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:53.480
the next hour, I'll listen to some music or whatever.

875
00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:58.400
So yes, I listen to music a lot while I'm traveling.

876
00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:02.440
And to answer the first part of the question, my

877
00:57:02.639 --> 00:57:08.599
theory on music is that good music makes you feel good,

878
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:12.760
and bad music, well, I don't want to listen to

879
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:15.679
bad music. So I know some people say that, oh,

880
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:22.239
that music's depressing and that music is happy. I disagree

881
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.719
with that. A band that often comes up in this

882
00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:30.960
is Radiohead, which is probably one of my one of

883
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:33.679
my favorite bands, top three, maybe my favorite band, and

884
00:57:33.679 --> 00:57:35.800
they happen to be from Oxford, where I'm from as well,

885
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.800
and a lot of people describe their music as depressing,

886
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:44.719
and I I see why they're saying that, because it's

887
00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:51.599
slow maybe, and the sounds are quite aggressive or in

888
00:57:51.760 --> 00:58:01.480
minor chords sometimes, or the particular feel is kind of dark.

889
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:06.119
But I don't find that depressing. If the song is good,

890
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:10.239
I feel great that that makes me feel good. So

891
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:14.840
I don't have a particular song, but I just want

892
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:19.800
to listen to good music and that makes me feel great. However,

893
00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:24.360
there there's there are sometimes when I'm on my bike

894
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:30.960
driving and if the song is particularly just full of

895
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.800
life and dancing and stuff like that, I do dance

896
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:37.039
a little bit on my bike. There's one video I

897
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:41.320
can't remember which episode is when you'd see me dancing along?

898
00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:45.000
Was it? So? I don't know what song it was exactly,

899
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:49.840
but I can tell you one song of one recent song. Actually,

900
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:51.519
you know what, it's not even that recent now, it's

901
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:56.679
two years old already. But the kind of song Tiny

902
00:58:56.760 --> 00:59:00.440
Moves by Bleaches, do you know that? Yeah, that is

903
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:03.239
just that. That is the kind of song that is

904
00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:05.880
going to get me dancing on my on my motorbike.

905
00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:08.360
I'm dancing. I don't want to scare my mum or

906
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:12.880
anything like that. I'm just, you know, I'm just stable

907
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:16.039
and yeah, bopping my head and stuff like that. That

908
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:20.639
that song that is just wonderful. That really, Yeah, I'd

909
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:22.519
love to see them live. That would be amazing.

910
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:26.199
Good music makes you feel things, and honestly that that

911
00:59:26.199 --> 00:59:30.639
that's truly. There's there's certain things that music reaches part

912
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:32.519
of your brain. I think it was in Stranger Things that,

913
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:35.000
and so like, I don't know how scientific this this

914
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:38.440
comment is, but the there was a character in Stranger

915
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:41.280
Things that said music reaches part of your brain, parts

916
00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:44.079
of your brain that words can't, and I agree with

917
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:47.840
that one hundred percent. So for me, you know, music, mindset,

918
00:59:47.880 --> 00:59:50.119
and movement are kind of the tools that I've used

919
00:59:50.119 --> 00:59:53.599
to essentially build what I call my unreal life from

920
00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:56.519
the ground up. And a lot of that happens through

921
00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:00.679
working out, through those live concerts that we talked about,

922
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:04.079
but also through the really just good music that does

923
01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:06.960
things to your heart that you know, you can process

924
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:10.440
emotions other in different ways. It's just it's such a gift.

925
01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:15.280
And picturing Henry dancing around on his motorbike to that

926
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:18.639
song makes me so happy. So if there's something about

927
01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.400
music that brings us together and it just it's a

928
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:24.960
collective experience, and I just love that so much. So

929
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:28.000
I could talk to you for hours. We've already talked

930
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.519
about this, and I probably I don't even know how

931
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:33.360
long we've been talking, but we've talked a lot about

932
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:35.719
the past, a little bit about the present, and now

933
01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:37.760
I want you to do me a favor and don't

934
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:41.280
do the math. But picture your eightieth birthday, and I

935
01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:44.239
want to know, like, what do you want that to

936
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:46.159
look like? What do you want people to be saying?

937
01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:49.760
What kind of legacy are you hoping you've built on

938
01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:50.800
your eightieth birthday?

939
01:00:54.400 --> 01:01:04.000
Oh, if people are traveling somewhere, then that would be

940
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:05.280
enough for me.

941
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.000
They don't have to be with me on my eightieth birthday.

942
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:11.159
I'd probably be traveling somewhere. I'd be in another country,

943
01:01:11.719 --> 01:01:15.079
and that's I think what I would want people to

944
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:21.199
be doing as well. Yeah, traveling and seeing people. I

945
01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:24.920
don't I don't know. If people are inspired by my

946
01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:29.599
traveling or my YouTube videos or whatever, then then great.

947
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.639
Or maybe people just want to sit at home and

948
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.840
dream about things. But there's so much to get to

949
01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:42.880
learn to enjoy from traveling. So I hope, Yeah, I

950
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:47.360
hope more people want to travel because of seeing what's possible.

951
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:48.519
I do.

952
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:51.280
I know that travel opens up all the doors and

953
01:01:51.639 --> 01:01:55.159
pushes you outside your comfort zone. Like you said, how

954
01:01:55.159 --> 01:01:58.400
has this journey changed the way that you see humanity.

955
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:06.960
Or just just knowing how wonderful people are? Tie? Yeah,

956
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:15.920
it's I said already. People are good. People are good,

957
01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:21.079
doesn't matter what country or any culture or any differences.

958
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:24.760
People are good and that's what you can see when

959
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:26.119
you're traveling, for sure.

960
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:28.559
So I have a few more questions that are kind

961
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:30.679
of quick hitters, but answer as long as you need

962
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:36.920
to finish the sentence, Henry. Life feels most alive when.

963
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.320
Oh, when you're on your motorbike listening to tiny muse

964
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:49.400
by Bleaches or just you know, My perfect day when

965
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:55.719
I'm when I'm traveling is to wake up and not

966
01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:59.440
knowing and not know what I'm doing that day. That

967
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:02.079
that is such a great feeling. And to have the

968
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:06.079
freedom to just go out and see what's going to

969
01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:15.639
happen and and not worry about the consequences necessarily. You know, tomorrow,

970
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.760
I'm going to fix my windscreen for my bike that

971
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.119
broke off. I think I'm going to go to a

972
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:26.840
dinosaur museum, but maybe not. If I don't want to,

973
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:31.679
then well I won't. The river's nearby. The sunset over

974
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:35.800
there over the river is insane. Maybe I'll go over there,

975
01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:39.679
Maybe I won't. Maybe I'll go and chat with someone.

976
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:47.039
That's that's that's the kind of Yeah, that's a great feeling.

977
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:51.280
The biggest lie we believe about the world is.

978
01:03:56.239 --> 01:04:02.880
That it's difficult and scary. I mean, yeah, going back

979
01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:07.360
to what I said before, it's I don't I don't

980
01:04:07.400 --> 01:04:11.599
think I'm doing difficult things. I know that people see

981
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:16.360
some people see that it's just this wild, crazy, amazing thing.

982
01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:19.400
But it's not how I see it. It's something that

983
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.599
everyone can do. It's not scary. So you know, one

984
01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:28.360
thing that people often worry about traveling is the language,

985
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.000
and that is not something to be afraid of. If

986
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:37.719
you go into a hotel, then they people know what

987
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:42.239
you want, you want to stay the night, doesn't matter.

988
01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:44.519
You don't need a language to know that. If you

989
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:47.760
go into a restaurant, you don't need to share language

990
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:53.880
to know what that person wants. And yeah, it's it's

991
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:58.119
not something to be afraid of. Everywhere is possible.

992
01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:02.320
Every Where is possible. Now, that is a line, that

993
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:06.119
is a one liner. Henry here for that people are

994
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:09.599
more good than we think, because.

995
01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:17.320
Oh, because that's how we're born. Yeah, that's that's that's

996
01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:23.840
how we're born. We are born Good's that is human nature.

997
01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:25.719
That is how we're born.

998
01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:29.840
Yeah, one last one. If you wait until you're ready,

999
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:31.159
you'll never.

1000
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.960
You'll never do anything. Yeah. I when I set off

1001
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:44.159
on my motorcycle trip. I had been researching it for years.

1002
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.880
I had been thinking about every tiny little bit that

1003
01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:53.280
I could, but also not planning it. I'd been researching

1004
01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:56.960
it that I there's a key difference here. I didn't

1005
01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:59.239
plan it in that I know what I'm doing this day,

1006
01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:03.079
that day, that day. But I'd researched the border crossings,

1007
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:06.000
I'd researched the kind of bike I would need. I

1008
01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:10.920
had researched how to fly my bike from Canada to Japan.

1009
01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:17.039
But I hadn't. But I wasn't ready. I didn't know

1010
01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:21.760
what was going to happen. I didn't want to. You

1011
01:06:22.280 --> 01:06:25.920
can never be completely ready for anything. But that's the

1012
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:30.480
that's the fun part, not being ready, because if you're

1013
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:35.599
ready for every little thing, then it's not there's no

1014
01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:42.920
excitement then, you know, you know if when, when? The when?

1015
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:45.840
The firework? No, not the firework? What am I thinking?

1016
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:48.239
Like like a jack in the box. You know, if

1017
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:50.280
you know when it's going to come out, then that's

1018
01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:53.760
not fun. You want it to be. You want it

1019
01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:57.079
to be a surprise. You know, Oh yeah, tomorrow's your

1020
01:06:57.079 --> 01:07:01.239
birth your surprise birthday party. Okay, so when you arrive

1021
01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:04.079
at three o'clock, I'm going to jump out from that sofa,

1022
01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:07.639
and Tie is going to be behind the door. She

1023
01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:10.519
know you wanted to. It's supposed to be a surprise, right,

1024
01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:14.360
that's the point. So yeah, you're never going to be

1025
01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:17.960
You don't want to be ready. You don't want to

1026
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:19.039
be ready.

1027
01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:23.039
Henry, thank you for your time, for your energy, for

1028
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:25.800
all of the goodness that you poured into this conversation.

1029
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:29.199
I am so grateful for you. And that is all

1030
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:31.480
for this time. Friends, can't wait to see you next

1031
01:07:31.519 --> 01:07:33.239
time on Quick Before You Forget.

1032
01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:36.440
Thanks Ty, thanks so much greatly. Chat really fun.

1033
01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:40.199
Thank you for being here with me today on Quick

1034
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:43.480
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1035
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