Happiness, Poverty, and the Titanic Steerage Theory

• 40:14Tim worries about falling behind John, then realizes he doesn't know where he can afford to eat but is having a great time waking up whenever he wants.
• 40:41Without money, you have to dig deep and find other things—hikes, playing pretend—to entertain yourself without buying tickets.
• 41:21Staying in hostels instead of hotels gives you a better, more fun experience because you meet more people and discover things to do.
• 42:05Camping at Bonnaroo will be shitty and uncomfortable but more fun than a hotel 40 minutes away—you'll make friends and remember the good times.
• 42:42At a hostel breakfast, someone mentioned a circular train that goes around the city for two hours, not in any guidebook, and everyone decided to do it together.
• 42:59Working a tour bus in New York, he saw younger people in hostels having way more fun than people in overpriced hotels.
• 43:29In major cities, hotel prices are the same experience whether you pay $100 or $2,500 a night—it's just a bed.
• 44:17Part of the freedom of traveling is deciding what to get into today rather than rushing to see everything like his girlfriend in Vegas who wanted to visit every hotel.
• 44:52When tourists asked what to do in New York, he'd tell them to just walk—go to the Upper East Side mansion district and walk around.
• 45:22On Maui, he saw a man walking angrily ahead of his wife and mother-in-law, angry despite being in paradise, probably worried about missing activities.
• 45:49People get angry in beautiful places because they're fixated on doing everything instead of relaxing and enjoying where they already are.

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