Travel To Grow

Recently I decided to host a blog carnival linking to cool articles about personal development related to travel. I received a good number of submissions and picked my 5 favorite posts. First is a post by Katie Sorene with an interesting and inspiring article about 5 less obvious reason to travel. The reasons to travel are [...]

“It’s all bullshit folks, and it’s bad for you” – George Carlin I’ve been watching a lot of the late George Carlin recently. He was one of the world’s most famous comedians, but on stage rather than just telling jokes he brought up a lot of intelligent real world issues. One theme throughout his comedy [...]

This is a guest article written by my good friend Matthew Spriegel. As a traveler you may find yourself asking the question, “What does it take to really experience a new place?” My first time traveling outside of North America, I found myself in the first several days, riding a bicycle around Hangzhou’s beautiful West [...]

“It happened for a reason” Quite often when something negative happens someone will try to comfort us with the phrase “It happened for a reason.” This is quite a loaded phrase implying that whatever negative thing just happened is okay because eventually somewhere along the way the reason for the thing happening will become clear [...]

How would you change your past? Image if you had a special power. Imagine you could search back through your life and change what happened. Imagine you could interject at a key moment to stop yourself from making that certain mistake, from getting into that relationship that ended in heartbreak, from having that embarrassing situation, [...]

Fomo is a relatively unknown yet extremely common disease that infects many travelers in nearly every country of the world. Left untreated Fomo can lead to unpleasant physical effects including increased anxiety, sleep deprivation, irrational behavior, cold sweats, and depression. While a small amount of people are immune to its effects, Fomo is a highly [...]

The clock is ticking. Every second you live you move one second closer to death. You’re lying on the tracks and the train is coming… you can’t see it and you can’t tell exactly how close it is, but it is coming. It could be 60 years from now, it could be tomorrow, but it [...]