Toronto to Las Vegas (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Toronto to Las Vegas

[Hyperchiller]

"I feel grateful that I’ve invested so much in my personal growth to reach the point where I can enjoy such a fun lifestyle. For many years I’ve had a career path that bestows plenty of freedom, but I hadn’t fully exercised that freedom. Now that I’m exercising it more, it feels great to do so."

This could be summed in the idea of strategically delaying short term gratification for long term 'success'. And success being what you want instead of beating somebody else.

That's awesome Steve. It's really inspiring.

[ColinH]

I like how you applied the concepts of personal growth to a holiday. Hope you will do it for future trips.

[Knk]

Hey Steve

I'm Canadian and live just 35 minutes from Toronto. I often find that Americans have a really inaccurate view of canadians, assuming we are all lumberjacks and use the word "eh" in everyother sentence. Are there any myths you'd like to dispell to your American readers who have never been to Canada themselves? I just think it'll be fun to hear your perspective, as this was your first time visiting.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Knk

Hey Steve

I'm Canadian and live just 35 minutes from Toronto. I often find that Americans have a really inaccurate view of canadians, assuming we are all lumberjacks and use the word "eh" in everyother sentence. Are there any myths you'd like to dispell to your American readers who have never been to Canada themselves? I just think it'll be fun to hear your perspective, as this was your first time visiting.

For sure, eh. Canadians are smokin' hot.

They also kick the USA's butt at recycling. We're such hosers down here, eh.

[Stuttgart]

I really liked this article, cause it sometimes remembered me on my owm traveling experiences. And basically, growth is everywhere you go, you just need to look out.

What i found interesting is that you were sweating in Toronto. I did some Celcius research (im german and we have that temperature system) and i found out that the Degrees you decribed were a bit lower than what wie have in germany, with the same humidity though. And that you are more comfortable with the very hot temperatures in Vegas. I didnt know that humidity was so much of a variable.

[cacheborn]

What interesting things are tourists doing in your city that you haven’t even done yourself? Maybe it’s time you did some of those things, just once for the experience.

I guess when we see things everyday or when they are easily accessible, we don't pay much attention to them. I was living 1.5 hours from Florence and it was after six months that I finally decided to visit it. Of course, then I was kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

[Vermilion Sparrow]

Maybe I've seen this a bit too much lately (aside: what is up with people visiting zoos in other cities while on vacation this summer?), but it bothers me when people who grew up in Southern California go to a random zoo somewhere they're visiting and say, "Well it's no San Diego Zoo..." The San Diego Zoo is widely regarded as being the best zoo in the world. Of course other zoos aren't like it! It's the gold standard of zoos!

**mumbles about spoiled Californians

Of course, on an actual serious note, your observations on travel were very much in line with what I tend to experience when I travel. However, I do usually find less-than-perfect accommodations to be part of what makes travel interesting, rather than something to seek to eliminate from my experience.

[ChrisG]

As I was walking around downtown Toronto with a friend one afternoon, he told me that if you accidentally bump into a Toronto resident while walking past them, they’ll say “sorry” even if it wasn’t their fault. The funny thing is that 20 minutes later, that’s exactly what happened. While fumbling with my phone, I accidentally bumped into a woman walking past me, and before I could say anything, she quickly turned and said “sorry” even though it was clearly my fault.

This happens in England as well. We're pretty famous for it