Was in a cab the other day, on my way to a meeting. I was having the age-old internal struggle of “Do I make conversation, or pretend I have a really important text message to send?”, when I registered that the woman cabbie had some lovely, carol-like music playing. It was a nice change from the talkback/weird cultural music you normally get.

I tried to make out what the music was, but couldn’t quite get a handle on it. Being soft, soothing music with a feelgood sort of vibe, I thought they must be carols and that the cabbie was getting into the spirit of things.

I asked her if she had Christmas carols playing and was ready to launch into a bit of a conversation about the business of it all, followed by good times with family.

She shot back a quick “Hey? No. No.” and that was it.

I never recovered and we travelled the rest of the trip in silence, with me sending text messages to people I hadn’t spoke to in a while…

Most everyone will have seen one of Matt Harding’s videos by now, his latest has 13 million views alone.

For those who haven’t, this bloke filmed himself doing a daggy jig at various spots around the world, cut the dances together and put some music to it. That was 3 world trips ago and now he’s made a career as a public speaker, travel guru and now the face of a marketing campaign for Visa.

To sum up, he went and had an adventure and now it’s his career. I can think of nothing better – if only someone would pay me to read books and take long lunches…

Watch Matt’s latest video and see if it doesn’t give you a bit of a fuzzy feeling.