hey guys ECR G here and today we're going to talk about the importance of
personal travel in clinical research in your job hey guys
ECR G here and today I really want to focus on the importance of personal
travel to clinical research your overall job - just your overall demeanor in the
work life now travel has gotten a bad rap recently taking time off has always
gotten a bad rap because here in America they really focus on wanting to work you
as hard as possible and not really realizing the benefits of taking time
off how it can change your perspective on life in general and how we can change
the perspective on your job in general now basically travel is vitally
important and I recently took a trip of the country to a country that is vastly
different than the one I currently live in which is America and I think it's
just amazingly important that people need to travel I think companies need to
promote this that people need to travel to places whether it's other states
definitely other countries because there are just so many benefits of this and
it's gonna help the company make more money it's gonna help the departments
perform better it's gonna help patients get better service everything
everything's gonna be improved if people just traveled a little bit further from
their normal domain if they put themselves out of their comfort zone I
remember going to college with people that literally never wanted to go
outside the state they've never been outside of the state before and they
never they never said they had any interest in going outside of the state
now if you ask me that's just pathetic and that's how you get some of these
crazy views these these crazy ideas from people who
just shows they have no knowledge no empathy about other people and that's
what life is really about is building relationships and serving other people
so I think travel is a great way to have that be important and a great way to
increase people's awareness in general so the first thing about travel and
taking time off is it opens your mind and allows you to taste and interact
with different cultures and this is important because obviously in the
workplace you can be dealing with people from all over the country to all from
all different backgrounds and walks of life and now this is truly important in
the clinical research environment because you're gonna be working on
global teams most often you're gonna be working with people from Amsterdam from
Hungary from the UK these people didn't grow up like you they didn't grow up in
a situation like you you know they grew up they may have grown up in completely
different situations and their world perspective and their views on life is
gonna be completely different now if you've never come into contact with
someone who's grown up completely different than you then that can be a
shock at first but not one that you can't eventually get over and learn to
adapt to but travel just gonna open up your mind to that and have empathy for
the way someone lives their life and the way they approach problems and solves
problems so I think that's one of the most important things about travel
now I recently went to a communist country Cuba and it's just amazing how
that opened up my mind so much and now I'm fairly well travelled having been to
a few countries I've been to parts of Europe I've been to a lot of places in
the Caribbean I've been to one place in Central America Costa Rica so I've been
I've been around the world a little bit would like to do a lot more obviously
because there's so many other countries to visit but man just having gone that
was my first time in a communist country and you know this is a place where they
can't even sell their house like literally they can't sell their
house how it works down there is if you sell your house the government will give
you another house to live in so there's not nothing about prices or or anything
like that and having to sell your house or like how much it's gonna sell for now
you if you want to give it space Lee in exchange you're gonna exchange your
house for another house so that's crazy in and of itself I mean these are people
that don't make much money but they're very happy which was which was
interesting you know sometimes travel really brings the basics out of you like
what makes what makes you and your life happy you know they don't have a lot of
the freedoms that we have in the Western world in the USA but man those people
are happy with what they do have and that's amazing so that's the first thing
about travel is definitely opens your mind allows you to taste different
things it helps you better interact with people on that level now the second
thing that travel does is allows you to appreciate the opportunities you do have
appreciates the people you work with the employees the co-workers the managers
the executives everybody it appreciate it allows you to appreciate what you do
have and that's important for obvious reasons you don't you don't want to be
unappreciative because that's gonna come off in your work you're not gonna be you
know working at your best you're gonna be taking things for granted and we
don't really want that so travel is definitely gonna open up your eyes to
that really understand how people live how people work what makes them tick
and you'll see like hey I'm complaining about this and that but I really don't
have it that bad think about how they bad they have it over there like I said
having just come back from Cuba you know these people don't make much money that
government takes everything like you can barely even own a business over there
and the government's gonna take a lot of it out a lot of the money you make out
of out of it so I mean just being able to appreciate what you have
you know in America the government not taking out so much you have the ability
to make make more money and be have more freedom I mean these people can't get
visas to go to other countries they can't they can't even travel a lot of
these people have never been outside the country and just having that opportunity
in the Western world to do that is amazing at that end of itself so travel
just allows you to be appreciative and really humble yourself with the
opportunities that you have and you know really understand that the world is your
oyster if you live in the Western world or in the eastern world so that's
amazing the third thing that travel really does is puts your life in
perspective you know it allows you to really focus on the things that truly
matter like what really matters to you and yourself what really makes your day
go by quicker it really makes you enjoy the day your
day what really gives your life meaning you know what do you really want to be
doing with your day you know we only have us so much time on this on this
earth and you really want to spend it doing what you want to do you don't want
to be doing a lot of things that you don't want to do so travel just opens up
your mind to the possibilities that you have in the world opportunities that you
have allows you to think about things differently
etc etc so travel is vastly vastly important and it's just amazing all the
things that can come to you while you're traveling while your mind is is free
while you're talking to these people while you're interacting with these
people tasting food tasting their culture and really
vibing with these people there's so many benefits that come from this and you
know it just allows you to better interact with people you meet in your
job you're gonna be working with different people from all over the
country like we said earlier all over the world different backgrounds
different languages you know these a lot of these people grew up with not even
English as their first language so you're gonna be talking to people who
understand what you're saying differently because they're coming at it
from a second language perspective so you know even though people know English
they're not gonna understand the phrases and the nuances of the words you say all
the time you know because some things mean different things to different
people so it's just gonna allow you to better interact with people and
understand where they're coming from and really build deeper relationships
and understand how important relationships are you know I've talked a
lot about on this channel this the importance of relationships and how
that's vital you know we've talked about the importance of networking which is
ultimately relationships we've talked about the importance of managing
relationships with your boss your co-workers etc and you know those are
there's a common threads throughout this channel and so it only makes sense that
travel would help better those relationships better your interaction
with your teams and ultimately improve the workflow of the organization and the
workflow of your daily life so it's all about relationships and that's vastly
important that's the that's the human connection that's what makes us human is
the way we value those relationships and the importance of them so hope you guys
enjoyed this video that's the importance of travel in your personal life now
there's a lot of travel that goes on in the business life and you can get a lot
of these same things from it too but most the time when traveling for
business its business there's not much personal time involved
you may have a little bit here and there you may catch up with a friend here or
there and business travel so I actually have a business trip coming up so I'll
probably do a video on that as well that's a side note but you know personal
travel is usually way different than business travel and it allows you to
explore more do more really build relationships with people on a more
personal level not such a professional level but that's again that's another
skill that you have to develop and really the personal travel is what's
really gonna open up your mind and allow you to taste culture and interact with
different people and just just see what it's all about build these relationships
learn how to build these relationships and that's just one of the vital parts
of personal travel so if you enjoyed this video go ahead and hit it with the
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