#journeyofthemind

#sunrise in my #EdenValley #cumbria on a nice fresh morning #landscapeofthegods #landscape #photography #journeyofthemind #journies (at Great Asby)

John C. Maxwell

Digging deep into the mug collection on sick day #2 for more good journeys of the mind and finding exactly what I was looking for along the way. One year ago today, I and my friends from IMD were in #Shanghai working to understand how that country has achieved such staggering growth in recent decades and to understand what sacrifices have been made for those goals. I came away feeing like American fears around China are misplaced: It was the worlds leading economy for 5000 years and the reasonable bet is that they're going to be that again. But in our better moments, our system of liberalized freedoms and equality is critical for future growth, the future will not be the same as the past after all, and it seems that the Chinese see this too. At least the people I spoke to did. And because of our insight that equality and freedom drive economic growth, if we don't reverse course on those freedoms, we will also lead the global economy into the foreseeable future. The perfect system has not yet been created and there is much work to be done for all of us. Here's to a good cup of coffee and a fine journey of the mind on a Saturday morning. • #coffeelove #journeyofthemind #travellife #china🇨🇳 #livingwell (at Saratoga, New York)