7 Life Lessons Learned Only Through Travel
Once a year, go some places you’ve never been before.
- Traveling Makes You A Better Learner
Traveling Empower the learner inside of us and increase our curiosity and humility. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that kids who study abroad were more humble than those who didn’t travel.
- Traveling Makes You Sharper
Being in the outdoors refreshes you senses in a way no office air ever could. The latest evidence in the Journal of Environment Psychology. Researchers found that people who simply looked at a photo of nature for only 40 seconds had improved focus and performance on their next task.
- Traveling Increase Your Faith In Humanity
Maddox found in his research that traveling the world increase your faith in humanity. The more foreign countries people travel to the more their sense of generalized trust increases. Seeing all of good that exists in the world, make it easier to trust, that most people for most part are just trying to do the right thing.
- Traveling Make You More Creative
A recent study from the Academy of Management Journal found that people who worked overseas were more imaginative and inspired, then those who stayed in their home country. People who integrate a new culture into their identities, are more creative in the long run. Doing as the locals do for an extended period of time, opens up your mind, forcing you to think in different ways, and bounce around between different ideas. Its concept scientists called “Cognitive Flexibility”. And the more cognitively flexible you are, the more creative you will be.
- Traveling Gives You A Wider Perspective
Travel gives you a bird’s eye view. Traveling helps us look at our lives from a distance both physically and metaphorically. When you do that, you’re able to see things a lot more clearly.
- Traveling Makes Us Happier
A new study from the Psychological Science found that anticipating an experience before it even happened, makes you happier than if you’re waiting for something tangible like a new smartphone.
- Traveling Makes You More Patient
Dealing With delays, mishaps, and different cultures during travels, make you a much more patient and understanding person overall. At first travel leaves you speechless, and then it turns you into a storyteller.