What Is “Happiness”? Discovering Meaning On The Silk Road w/ Will Rickard

Zero To Travel Podcast

Jason Moore

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Places & Travel

4.6 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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What is your current relationship with 'happiness'? How does travel affect your happiness and why? What roles do contentment, purpose, & gratitude play in your daily habits? Happiness may feel like the fabled Phoenix that rises, burns bright, and then turns to ashes, but have you been possibly looking at it the wrong way and with the wrong intentions? Today's guest, Will Rickard, is the author of The Silk Road To Happiness, which took him to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan over 3 months in the pursuit of happiness and its meaning. Will left the corporate dream job to embark on a journey both in travel and within himself and came out of it with a perspective that non-travelers may never know. We talk about his adventures in the 'Stans, how being enthusiastic is important & different from passion, and the 5 things that constitute a good life. Break free from your slump in pursuit of your happiness! If you were to pursue your happiness, where would that take you? Share your thoughts by sending me an audio message. Premium Passport: Want access to the private Zero To Travel podcast feed, a bonus episode every month (decided on by YOU), exclusive content, direct access to me to answer your questions, and more? Click Here To Try Premium Passport For Only $1 Tune In To Learn: From Crisis Of Self To Booking A Ticket Double Dipping On The Australian Gap Year Your Frame Of Reference Is Only What Is In Front Of You Balancing Discontent & Gratitude with The Pursuit Of More Differences In Pursuing More via Purpose vs Consumerism The Goal Worthy Of Striving For What Is Happiness? The Silk Road & How It Changed His Perspective The Five Things That Constitute A Good Life (In Respect To Happiness) The Heroin Highway Experience There Is A Reason It Is Practiced For 100's Of Years The Fight For Purpose & A Fear Of Change The Non-Negotiable: Gratitude Why Should You Go To The 'Stans Where Did This All Take You And so much more Resources: Join Zero To Travel Premium Passport Athletic Greens - Today's Sponsor For This Episode Read Will's book The Silk Road To Happiness Follow Will on Instagram | LinkedIn Location Indie Camp Indie Want More? The Power Of Death In Life with Gentle Rebel Bronnie Ware How To Add More Play Into Your Life w/ Jeff Harry Sweet Ass Strategies For Achieving Anything Fast w/ Heath Armstrong

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0:00.0	If you're in a career and you're thinking about what's next, your frame of reference is only
0:03.4	what's in front of you. It's only what your colleagues are doing. It's like, oh, they go work for a
0:06.9	bank or they go work for another consulting firm. That's what you're comparing it to. Whereas if you
0:11.3	actually go and disappear for a few months, you really get this, like, crazy, different set of
0:17.9	perspectives. That was a little clip from my interview today with Will
0:21.8	Ricard, who wrote a book about his travels through some of the stands along the Silk Road
0:27.8	in a pursuit to find happiness, find out what happiness really means. And what is happiness
0:35.4	really? We dig into that topic, and it's a big one here on today's show
0:40.3	we also talk about how this particular set of destinations plays in to what he discovered
0:48.0	about himself and happiness while he was traveling along the Silk Road after quitting a corporate job and doing
0:56.5	the anti-bucket list thing. I'll explain what that is before we get into the interview. You might
1:02.5	want to take the anti-bucket list approach after hearing that. And of course, a lot of topics
1:08.9	swirling around the theme of happiness.
1:11.5	And there's a lot of nuance to this topic, right?
1:14.3	We talk about gratitude a lot on the show.
1:16.0	It's something that I think is so important in life to have that gratitude.
1:20.7	But sometimes you just aren't happy with a certain situation.
1:25.4	And gratitude's not going to cut the mustard or it'll make
1:28.4	you better for a little bit, but you feel like you need to do something about that. On the other
1:32.8	hand, we can fall into this trap of pursuing more, right? Always pursuing more and never really
1:38.3	being content. So what does all this mean? And how does it relate to travel and what we're talking about today?
1:45.8	And these destinations in particular. And we dig into all of that in the interview. We also talk about
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