Travel To Grow

I’m always interested in the different ways that we think about certain parts of life in our different cultures. There are some big differences between Western and Chinese culture that become obvious for anyone that’s experienced both cultures first hand. From dating to personal space to manners to family values the differences are vast and [...]

Kind of a continuation of my post on how language shapes behaviour I’d like to talk about this idea we have of love.   I think how we think and talk about the idea of love… doesn’t really match reality, and it actually causes us a lot of trouble or at least some confusion. Us humans have [...]

Recently my study of the mandarin language has lead me to a new theory. As I’m sure you know, different languages have different ways of explaining certain concepts and ideas… and even have different words or concepts that are completely absent in other ones… I was talking to my Chinese ex-girlfriend today and asking her [...]

An important part of understanding the world and all of its crazyness is empathy. If we can put ourselves into the shoes of another, and understand life from their perspective we can take great strides in understanding the behaviour of people around the world. We should try to understand that all people are just doing what they [...]

We’ve all heard the question before: “Does money bring happiness?” and we’ve all heard the various answers. We’ve heard of millionaires being miserable, we’ve heard of people with nothing being incredibly happy. and on the other side we see happy wealthy people with wealth in all areas of their life, and people who are so [...]