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I was with him right until he say not to travel. Travel is the single biggest step in developing a proper perspective of life in this world, and what part you'l
by run4yourlives 19y ago
I was with him right until he say not to travel. Travel is the single biggest step in developing a proper perspective of life in this world, and what part you'll choose to play in the future. At 25, you can tell if someone has traveled or not by having a 15 minute conversation with them.
The traveled ones are always much more rational in thought, and open in mind, and aware of the possibilities. Non traveled folk tend to be more rigid, narrow in though and unable to grasp concepts that may be foriegn to their history.
As to the rest, my biggest beef is that he assumes all people are born entrepreneurs - even if he says otherwise. One must remember that although college can be a bore for a bright individual, it can be a saving grace for a person that is, well average.
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- mpc 19y agoI'm sorry but I disagree. Traveling is certainly something that is worthwhile, but it's hardly the determining factor in one's personal development that you're making it out to be. I've been to a lot of places, and I still value things like the books that I've read, personal relationships, real experience etc etc a lot more. Sometimes all travel contributes to is pretentiousness.
- ardit33 19y agosorry, but taking a cruise to bahamas,or a two weeks trip to europe doesn't make one a "well traveled" being. Living in a different country for a while, it will open you a whole world of differnt perspective, and experience things that you just don't when visiting a place for a few days. yes, just the fact of knowing a foreign language, (well), tells a lot about a person.
- uuilly 19y agoAgreed. It really depends on the kind of travel. Watching other people commute is not mind expanding. That said moving somewhere totally different and working there for a year is.
- ranparas 19y agoTravel will expose you to new experiences. How much your learn and imbibe from those experiences, depends on individual personality.
- curi 19y agothe internet has made travel obsolete :)
- curi 19y agocome travel and downmod me to my face ;)
- kingkongrevenge 19y agoIt's pretty easy to traipse through Europe and not learn jack shit if you're poorly read. I've met a lot of total ignoramus ex-pats who've been living overseas for years. I don't even think spending time overseas in the industrialized west is much of an eye-opener. Appalachia would probably be just as much of an experience for a lot of people.
- albertcardona 19y agoWho says travel says also learning other languages and cultures: get used to changing frame and realizing your own cultural assumptions in human communication. The horrible problem here is that unless one has lived abroad for a while in a country with a different language and culture than one's own, there's no way a person can see value in it. But if you don't have that experience, you will always drag behind those who do.
- Tichy 19y agoProblem is, travel often seems so passive to me. Maybe I could get something out of it by blogging about my experience, but other than that? I already have a kind of feeling that the world is a weird and wonderful place. I don't really take western lifestyle for granted. There are plenty of problems to be solved where I live - what do I really gain from visiting some poor weirdo countries, except for some unpleasant diseases?
- yters 19y agoPeople are irrational because of prejudices. The best way to overcome prejudices is to live in a culture with a significantly different view of the world than your own. Plus, you get to go a step further and learn there are reasons behind prejudices, instead of just rejecting a belief and its connotations because the believer is prejudiced. So, I think living in different parts of the world is only indirectly useful. The important thing is to live in a new environment among people with a different culture.