Kevin Kelly: preference

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…Are you happier when you travel, or do you travel for other reasons? I’m very happy when I travel. I’m very content. I think I was a little frantic. People didn’t like to travel with me, often, because I really literally was working from morning to night. I wasn’t relaxing, hanging around the pool. Even when I was visiting things, I was on the hunt for these images. I’ve since learned to take a different mode. But I am very, very happy, because I like the kind of travel that’s not for relaxation and not so much for rejuvenation but for learning. I’m happiest when I am encountering things I’ve never seen before, making me question and change my mind and try to understand things. That makes me supremely happy and content, so I can just keep going and going. Particularly in situations where I’m learning the entire time. We’re very similar in this way, but I sometimes think most people don’t actually enjoy their so-called vacations more. They don’t enjoy it when they travel. They may do it for social bonding, or they feel they’re supposed to, or they don’t know what else to do with themselves, but it’s a funny thing to spend so much money on something that makes you less happy. That’s what I observe.…

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