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International travel can be superficial, but it can also be deep and meaningful. Get away from the tourist places, the tours, the cruises. Go to an area and tr
by vorpalhex 4y ago
International travel can be superficial, but it can also be deep and meaningful.
Get away from the tourist places, the tours, the cruises. Go to an area and try and stay in normal accomodations and eat the local spots and spend time with the people there. Strike up good conversations.
- Filligree 4y agoThe lady in this story didn't seem like she was going for 'deep'. Four hundred years, and her biggest hobby was... knitting? Which it seemed like she'd turned into a job. I can't say I see myself in this at all, nor could I imagine any of my friends or family acting this way, but- Well, I have no trouble imagining that we're self-selecting for that. A lot of people do seem like they function on rote habit and instructions, and I don't know what to do about that.
- vorpalhex 4y ago> A lot of people do seem like they function on rote habit and instructions, and I don't know what to do about that. Remove instruction. Encourage experimentation (and make failure cheap but not totally free).
- Filligree 4y agoAnd when they flounder without learning anything? I’ve heard of teachers taking your advice. Usually, teachers who as children would have responded well to that same technique. Almost universally they learn why that wasn’t the technique used.