
Good Morning (in) Vietnam!
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<p>Greetings and salvations everybody. This is James Newcomb coming into your ear balls, and it's a lovely Friday morning here in eco park, just on the outside of Hanoi, Vietnam. And there's something special about how the Vietnamese folks do their mornings. It's very deliberate and very intensive. And as I go on my morning walk, I want to share some of the observations I've made about the Vietnamese people and how they approach their mornings and how it contributes to them.</p><br><p>Quite frankly, being a rather happy bunch of people.</p><br><p>So I'm not saying it's good. I'm not saying it's bad. It is what it is. Maybe they're just conditioned from the time that they are young children to just never questioned authority. And that's why it is that could very well be what the cause of this is, but I'm just calling it the way I see it.</p><br><p>So getting back to my observations about the mornings and how the Vietnamese. Approach their mornings. You walk outside of your apartment and this is here in eco park. It's not Hanoi, which is a huge, massive city. It's this is busy, but it's not Hanoi busy. It's very Placid by comparison, but you get outside and people are very intentional about.</p><br><p>How they, what they do in the morning. People biking all over the place. Just all over thousands. I don't know about thousands, but hundreds of people on their bikes. First thing in the morning, six o'clock in the morning, they're going up for their morning bike ride. Another cool thing that I really enjoy.</p><br><p>And just walking by, is people doing Tai Chi in the morning? I don't know if it's a Tai Chi or Qigong. I don't know exactly what it is, but they have, somebody will have a speaker, a wifi speaker outside, and they're hooked it up to their iPhone or whatever it is. And they've got this soothing music going and they're doing these movements.</p><br><p>They have their mats. They're bamboo mats on the, usually on the grass or the sidewalk. And it's commonplace. It's not like it's not anything that is out of t
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Good Morning (in) Vietnam!
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