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Rolf Potts

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  1. “Yeah, well, there's a couple of big picture ones. It's funny, Medellin. I was just there a year and a half ago. And I think now it's like the breast augmentation capital of the world.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “And I'm not suggesting that everybody needs to become a vagabonder for a 20 year chunk. And in some ways, I travel a lot less than I used to 10 or 15 years ago. But it's something that you can do. It's an option that you can have. And it's not an option that you wait for life to give you. You create it. And so I'm a big believer in the active aspect of Vagabonding, of saving your money. The lottery is another metaphor I use a lot in Vagabonding that people keep waiting for the lottery to reward them. But as we all know, the odds that you're going to win the lottery is pretty low, but we've already won the lottery. We're born with time wealth. And so it's just a matter of creating these travel experiences or these time-rich experiences through things like simplicity and just the decision to make these sort of things happen.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Thank you. Thank you. It was just this time that I was straggling back to Kansas after having this amazing eight-month trip around North America. And it was a trip that I thought would be my last. I thought I would get travel out of my system so I could become a responsible American workaholic and then maybe return to travel when I was old. But you mentioned the idea of fear. And the fears I had going out were, you know, is this going to be expensive? Is this going to be dangerous? Am I going to come back and be compromised professionally? And all of those sort of turned into the opposite, that it was a lot safer than I expected. It was a lot cheaper than I expected. And I came back, and for 20 years, I've been integrating travel with a professional life that continues to diversify. I continue to do other things to make money, while at the same time having big swaths of time to track.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Of slowing down and really discovering parts of yourself instead of just buying a lot of experiences, which we've sort of been conditioned to do as American consumers. My first Vagabonding trip was 20 years ago this year, oddly enough.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Tied in to confronting vagabonding, which you asked me for the definition. Vagabonding is long-term travel. It's not just a vacation. It's not a week or two off that society gives you as a vacation. six months or two years or six weeks that you make for yourself to travel in earnest, not as a consumer experience, not as a vacation, but as a more deeply meaningful life experience and as a way to actualize your wealth of time. And I think this is an idea we'll come back to a lot and it's something that you write about, as well as me, is the idea of time wealth, the idea that your experiences are more valuable in life than the things that you accumulate and the things that are always being touted as the most important things in life. So travel is a great way to cash in on your time wealth. And vagabonding just by definition is a more meaningful way of travel.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And so I think an important principle I bring up in Vagabonding is saying don't put this off. If you're dreaming about travel, and most people do. And if you don't dream about travel, that's fine. But I really address these travel dreams, which are so common, that don't wait until you're too old. you know, retirement isn't necessarily the best time to do something like this. And in fact, Henry David Thoreau, I think Walden was the other book you took on your travels, talks about how people, and I'm not quoting him directly, they put off what they really want to do until they're too old to actually do it. That's a paraphrase. And so if you're 18, 28, 38, 48, whenever you're dreaming about travel, make your goals soon and don't put off those goals because they're very attainable. And, you know, I think there's a lot of fears that are...”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Yeah, I like that you bring up the idea of fantasizing about travel because I think it's something that everybody does. And it's one of those top three. If not top two or one things that people dream about that. And you see it in the movies all the time. And in fact, I mentioned this in Vagabonding. The Heist movie where the whole goal is to have this”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Pleasure. Thank you for reading. It occurs to me that I heard from you in late 2005, which was in retrospect was pretty soon after I had written the book. So you must have found it pretty soon after it came out.”

    2014-11-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 41: Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT