Vagabonding the Mind, Searching for Creativity (podcast $)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com“The journey is the reward.” – attributed to Steve Jobs– Going SomeplaceA book called Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, by Rolf Potts, reminded me of both the benefits of traveling and the benefits of seeing in new ways. Seeing in new ways can be understood to mean seeing:* things you weren’t looking for,* things you didn’t expect,* things you weren’t supposed to see,* things you don’t understand, or* seeing without trying to understand at all.Clearly, what you see determines the benefit of travel, and if you don’t see anything new then nothing will change, and what’s the benefit of that? But things are not quite so simple.If you live an anxious life and travel to a place that deprives you of anxiety, then in this place you may see nothing manifestly different, but it will feel different. This is the objective of most vacations: to get away from what people usually see and, as a result, see ourselves differently...– Going to Non-Places– Going Nowhere At All– Ideas that are Never New– New Ideas– Doing the Creative Work