"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ March 4, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-03-04

URL: https://youtu.be/VdJFjj12gSY

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for March 4, 2016. 

It’s by Mark Twain, the American author whose real name was Samuel Clemens.  He lived from 1835-1910.

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth all one's life.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“I think Mark Twain is saying that ‘People who run in small circles often have small minds.’ Why?  Because they tend to become ethnocentric. Different is associated with dangerous, outsiders are viewed with suspicion, and life beyond their known world is seen as a threat.  But, people who travel gain some perspective, recognize the commonalities among people everywhere, and learn to value their differences. Perhaps that’s why when they return home, they sometimes experience reverse culture shock and have to reorient themselves to the local community.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in March.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

March 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Anais Nin
02 Aldous Huxley
03 Margaret Mead
04 Mark Twain
05 Mason Cooley
06 Arnold Bennet
07 Confucius
08 Kenneth Grahame
09 Clive Jones
10 (Unknown)
11 Douglas Adams
12 Jack Kerouac
13 Sir Walter Scott
14 Jack London
15 (Roman Expression)
16 Walt Disney
17 George Bernard Shaw
18  William Bartram
19 Robert Jenkins
20 John B. Priestly
21 William Shakespeare
22 Thomas Haynes Bayly
23 Pubilius Syrus
24 Dr. Maya Angelou
25 Arthur Schopenhauer
26 Mario Batali
27 Pope John Paul II
28 Benjamin Franklin
29 Samuel Johnson
30 Reverend Purlie V. Judson
31 Antoine de Saint Exupery

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works?  View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.