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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

Or I started in this job, I got to be here at least this amount of time. I've started learning this language, I've focused at least enough so I can do some kind of benchmark. And it's a lot harder when you have to do that, when it is just chasing novelty. So I think, yeah, like the change addict part, there's a lot of people that will do that. And actually, I'm a little bit different.

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

Or I started in this job, I got to be here at least this amount of time. I've started learning this language, I've focused at least enough so I can do some kind of benchmark. And it's a lot harder when you have to do that, when it is just chasing novelty. So I think, yeah, like the change addict part, there's a lot of people that will do that. And actually, I'm a little bit different.

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

If you start something and it's not for you, you should really just chuck it in and go find the thing that you want. There's opportunity cost, as we all know, right? But if you don't wrap things up or if you don't complete them to a certain extent, later on, I don't really know how you could pull out the value. And as we get into other topics, but maybe you can apply it to more.

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

If you start something and it's not for you, you should really just chuck it in and go find the thing that you want. There's opportunity cost, as we all know, right? But if you don't wrap things up or if you don't complete them to a certain extent, later on, I don't really know how you could pull out the value. And as we get into other topics, but maybe you can apply it to more.

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

But if you haven't finished it, you're never going to get there. So the way that I came about this concept of change addict, and addict is a harsh word, but you really can be addicted to change and to knowledge.

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

But if you haven't finished it, you're never going to get there. So the way that I came about this concept of change addict, and addict is a harsh word, but you really can be addicted to change and to knowledge.

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

No, that's a great question, Vince. And I think at the beginning, I thought it would be in hindsight, which is lovely to have. But I think at the time it was, like I mentioned adversity, but, and I also mentioned boredom. For me, like when I didn't have responsibility, right? It's just me. I'm the one that's responsible for myself. I got to feed, clothe, house me.

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

No, that's a great question, Vince. And I think at the beginning, I thought it would be in hindsight, which is lovely to have. But I think at the time it was, like I mentioned adversity, but, and I also mentioned boredom. For me, like when I didn't have responsibility, right? It's just me. I'm the one that's responsible for myself. I got to feed, clothe, house me.

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

There were many times where I was just like, you know what? I'm going to change it. I'm going to quit my job and I don't have anything else or I don't really have a plan to do anything else. And I'll just see what happens. And that's dangerous. Yeah.

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

There were many times where I was just like, you know what? I'm going to change it. I'm going to quit my job and I don't have anything else or I don't really have a plan to do anything else. And I'll just see what happens. And that's dangerous. Yeah.

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

there are people that can do it but i don't like it so i'm not going to push through the adversity it's not going to help you later on in life absolutely if you're not happy with where you are and you're not you don't think you're where you can be or you're not being supported the way that you would like then you certainly should look for other avenues and talk to a lot of people and

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

there are people that can do it but i don't like it so i'm not going to push through the adversity it's not going to help you later on in life absolutely if you're not happy with where you are and you're not you don't think you're where you can be or you're not being supported the way that you would like then you certainly should look for other avenues and talk to a lot of people and

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

Try different things, but you can try different things while you're doing something else that allows you to do that exploration. If you're just doing it because somebody has slighted you. When I was in Myanmar, I just woke up one day and said, I have $300. I'm going to live a very good life, but I'm never going to have anything. If I ever decided to leave here, so why don't I just go?

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

Try different things, but you can try different things while you're doing something else that allows you to do that exploration. If you're just doing it because somebody has slighted you. When I was in Myanmar, I just woke up one day and said, I have $300. I'm going to live a very good life, but I'm never going to have anything. If I ever decided to leave here, so why don't I just go?

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

And I was out in a week. But it's not... I could have done it in a much more thoughtful way. And I might be an odd cat in that move to so many places and I've done whatever. Maybe that's not going to be the way of the world in the future. But you only get, I would think in your life, a bunch of major changes. So you really shouldn't.

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

And I was out in a week. But it's not... I could have done it in a much more thoughtful way. And I might be an odd cat in that move to so many places and I've done whatever. Maybe that's not going to be the way of the world in the future. But you only get, I would think in your life, a bunch of major changes. So you really shouldn't.

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

minimize the impact and the importance of the change of the time. Really give yourself some time to think about like, why am I really unhappy? What do I really want to do? I don't know what I want to do. What are some things I can figure out that might lead me? Have I thought in my head and built some scenario planning or I'm like, what's going to happen if they do it? Am I going to regret it?

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

minimize the impact and the importance of the change of the time. Really give yourself some time to think about like, why am I really unhappy? What do I really want to do? I don't know what I want to do. What are some things I can figure out that might lead me? Have I thought in my head and built some scenario planning or I'm like, what's going to happen if they do it? Am I going to regret it?

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

Regret's an awful thing or we're always going to have it. But I think you can minimize it if you've got a little bit of thoughtfulness around why you're leaping to change something. Is it really just today I'm having a bad day and I had a bad interaction? Or is it, you know what, it's been building up for a long time and I shouldn't be here. I need to go find a place in my tribe.

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

Regret's an awful thing or we're always going to have it. But I think you can minimize it if you've got a little bit of thoughtfulness around why you're leaping to change something. Is it really just today I'm having a bad day and I had a bad interaction? Or is it, you know what, it's been building up for a long time and I shouldn't be here. I need to go find a place in my tribe.