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Colin Savage

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Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

I can take up for a whole hour on myself if you want.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

I can take up for a whole hour on myself if you want.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Regina is a lovely city. And like I said, I grew up here. And I grew up at a time when it was pretty traditional. Most of us looked the same. There wasn't a whole lot of ways to escape it, the right word to use. And so there wasn't a lot of novelty, at least from my perspective.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Regina is a lovely city. And like I said, I grew up here. And I grew up at a time when it was pretty traditional. Most of us looked the same. There wasn't a whole lot of ways to escape it, the right word to use. And so there wasn't a lot of novelty, at least from my perspective.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

If you wanted to, you could, you grew up here, you went to university, you got a degree in administration and we're a government now. So you go work for the government, you find your partner, start a family and so on. So path was pretty, pretty much legal. And that really wasn't me.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

If you wanted to, you could, you grew up here, you went to university, you got a degree in administration and we're a government now. So you go work for the government, you find your partner, start a family and so on. So path was pretty, pretty much legal. And that really wasn't me.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And at the time I didn't know, I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but I knew that wasn't the path that I wanted to take. And so the only thing I could do is basically have my radar on high alert for anything that sort of caught my interest. And that's where I get to the change addict. It's a lot about novelty. Oh, wouldn't it be neat if I moved to Kenya and I worked for a bank?

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And at the time I didn't know, I wasn't sure what I was looking for, but I knew that wasn't the path that I wanted to take. And so the only thing I could do is basically have my radar on high alert for anything that sort of caught my interest. And that's where I get to the change addict. It's a lot about novelty. Oh, wouldn't it be neat if I moved to Kenya and I worked for a bank?

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Or wouldn't it be cool if I went to China and I studied? And when I hear people say that, I'm always encouraging them to consider it. But the question afterwards is, what thing? For what purpose? If you go and you could study where you live now because of all the opportunities we have and online and the virtual world has made it easy. For example, us today, you're in Hong Kong and I'm in Redona.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

Or wouldn't it be cool if I went to China and I studied? And when I hear people say that, I'm always encouraging them to consider it. But the question afterwards is, what thing? For what purpose? If you go and you could study where you live now because of all the opportunities we have and online and the virtual world has made it easy. For example, us today, you're in Hong Kong and I'm in Redona.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

We're very easily, we can do whatever we want. Well, why do you need, why do you need to go there and do that? And if the answer that comes back to a lot of, I don't know, I saw a movie and China looks really neat or, oh, I saw that one person on social media that they did this and they're being super successful. So why wouldn't that be me? And I don't think it's a bad answer.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

We're very easily, we can do whatever we want. Well, why do you need, why do you need to go there and do that? And if the answer that comes back to a lot of, I don't know, I saw a movie and China looks really neat or, oh, I saw that one person on social media that they did this and they're being super successful. So why wouldn't that be me? And I don't think it's a bad answer.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

But the reality is that you're going to have a little bit more planning behind it. And I lived the attic lifestyle. Like I said, I moved, picked up and moved to Thailand. And then one day in Thailand, without really teaching English to adults and at the university, I want to go somewhere where there's no Burger King, there's no 7-Eleven, there's no this, there's no that.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

But the reality is that you're going to have a little bit more planning behind it. And I lived the attic lifestyle. Like I said, I moved, picked up and moved to Thailand. And then one day in Thailand, without really teaching English to adults and at the university, I want to go somewhere where there's no Burger King, there's no 7-Eleven, there's no this, there's no that.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And I basically walked into a traveling, where can I go that I poured? And she said, go to Myanmar. So I did. I went to Myanmar and did nothing about it. I took a suitcase and then I lived there for a year and a half. Learning my way, I was there. But looking back, that was just novel. Oh, it's foreign. It's new. It's different. It's unknown. I'll leap into it and don't do it.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And I basically walked into a traveling, where can I go that I poured? And she said, go to Myanmar. So I did. I went to Myanmar and did nothing about it. I took a suitcase and then I lived there for a year and a half. Learning my way, I was there. But looking back, that was just novel. Oh, it's foreign. It's new. It's different. It's unknown. I'll leap into it and don't do it.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And a single person now, anyone can do that. But it didn't really have a purpose in mind. And the thing is, novelty is great, but novelty wears off. You're there for a year and a half. And then you wake up one morning and it happens again. Oh, I'm bored. I've done this. I've learned these things that are really cool and interesting.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And a single person now, anyone can do that. But it didn't really have a purpose in mind. And the thing is, novelty is great, but novelty wears off. You're there for a year and a half. And then you wake up one morning and it happens again. Oh, I'm bored. I've done this. I've learned these things that are really cool and interesting.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And okay, let's go move here or let's go try this or let's do whatever. The other thing that I might have is a change addict. Like whenever you're shipped with some kind of adversity, it takes as much, if not more time. focused to get through to the end. The lucky thing for me was, well, I've started this degree, I got to finish it.

Chief Change Officer
#81 Colin Savage: A Change Addict’s Quest Across Borders—From Canada to Japan and Beyond — Part One

And okay, let's go move here or let's go try this or let's do whatever. The other thing that I might have is a change addict. Like whenever you're shipped with some kind of adversity, it takes as much, if not more time. focused to get through to the end. The lucky thing for me was, well, I've started this degree, I got to finish it.