Posted: 03/18/2013 | March 18th, 2013
People always ask how travel has changed me. If I look back at who I was before I began traveling and compare that to who I am now, I would have to say that travel has made me a better and much more well-rounded person. I’m way cooler now than I was at 25 when I first left to explore the world.
Simply put, I’m a lot much more amazing now than I used to be.
In fact, I think travel makes everybody a much more amazing person. We end our travels way better off than when we started. I’m not saying this to be conceited or egotistical; I’m saying it because I believe that travel is something that makes you not only a better human being but a way cooler one too. The kind of person people gravitate toward and want to be around.
You become like the Dos Equis guy.
How and why does travel make you much more awesome? let me count the ways:
1. much more social – It’s sink or swim on the road. You either get better at making pals or you end up alone, crying each night into a pillow. You learn to make pals out of strangers and get much more comfortable talking to new people. When I first started traveling, I was kind of an introvert and unpleasant talking to those I didn’t know. Now, I’ll happily speak with strangers like we’ve been best pals for years.
2. better at conversation – travel not only makes you comfortable talking to strangers, it makes you better at it too. After talking to people all the time, the same questions get boring. You start to even bore yourself. After a while, you don’t care about where people are from, where they are going, how long they’ve been traveling, and yada yada yada. Those kinds of questions don’t actually tell you anything about the person. You’ll get better at small talk and how to ask interesting questions — the ones that matter and tell you much more about the person.
3. much more confident – You’ve traveled the world. Hiked Mt. Everest. Dived the terrific barrier Reef. Wined and dined that stunning French girl in Paris, navigated unknown cities, and conquered your worry of heights. In short, you did amazing things. how can you not be much more confident? how can you not be sure about your abilities? After accomplishing so much, you’re going to feel a lot much more confident in your ability to achieve anything you set your mind to.
4. much more adaptable – You’ve dealt with missed flights, slow buses, wrong turns, delays, bad street food, and much, much more. After a while, you learn how to adapt your plans to changing situations. You don’t get mad, you don’t get angry; you just alter what you are doing and relocation on. Life throws you curve balls and you hit them out of the park. Waarom? because you’re amazing like that.
5. much more adventurous – When you become confident in your ability to do anything, you do anything. last week in Austin, Texas, despite not liking spicy food, I ate the world’s hottest pepper and some pure capsicum extract. Waarom? omdat ik het wil. What’s the purpose of life if not to break out of your comfort zone? My mouth was on fire for ages, but I’d do it again.
6. much more easy-going – All those mistakes? They did something else for you, too. They made you much more easy-going and relaxed. Waarom? because you’ve dealt with all those errors and you don’t care. You choose the flow now, because if travel taught you anything, it’s that it all works out in the end and that there’s no need to stress.
7. Sexier – tension causes aging. Those carefree, unwinding days on the road are going to make you much more confident and radiant, and you’ll age slower. You’ll look young and sexy. Unless you are George Clooney, who certainly got better with age.
8. Smarter – Unless you sit at a resort drowning your brain in frozen drinks, travel will instruct you about the world. You’ll learn about people, history, and culture, and arcane facts about places some people could only dream about. In short, you’ll have a better understanding about how it works and how people behave. That’s something that can’t be learned from books; you can only pick it up with on-the-road experience.
9. less materialistic – On the road, you learn just how little stuff you actually need. You’ll realize that all that crap they sell at the mall is pretty useless in leading a really pleased life. Coming home, you’ll find yourself a minimalist simply because you realize what you need to live and what you don’t. As they say, the much more you own, the much more it owns you.
10. happier – travel simply teaches you how to be happy. You’ll become much more relaxed, much more confident, and see the world as a brighter place. how can you not be pleased about life after all of that?
Think about all the famous, successful people in the world. how numerous of these qualities do those people exhibit? Heel veel. Waarom? because being outgoing, funny, social, happy, confident, and smart are all qualities that make people much more successfulin het dagelijkse leven.
Reizen maakt mensen betere mensen. Als je veel meer leert over de wereld en de mensen erin, je grenzen verlegt en nieuwe dingen probeert, word je een veel meer open, extravert en verbazingwekkend persoon. Alle mensen die ik ken die hebben gereisd, zijn hierdoor betere mensen.
Met alle manieren waarop een reis je veel meer een geweldig persoon kan maken, is er geen reden waarom je je volgende avontuur nu niet zou moeten plannen-of het nu over de hele wereld is of gewoon een kort, twee weken durende uitje naar Mexico.
Je kunt thuis zitten, willen dat je ergens exotisch was, plezier hebt en iets cools doet.
Of je kunt luisteren naar kinderpresident, niet meer saai zijn en iets geweldigs doen:
De keuze is aan jou.
Wil je wat meer inspiratie? Bekijk deze must-read berichten:
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Waarom cynici zoals Bob verkeerd zijn over alles
Hoe Michael $ 14k heeft bespaard in 6 maanden
Iedereen zegt dat ik wegloop (deze site is veel populaire post!)
Hoe u de wereld overreis op $ 50 per dag
Mijn best verkochte pocketgids voor wereldreizen in de New York Times zal je instrueren hoe je de kunst van het reizen kunt beheersen, zodat je van de gebaande paden komt, geld bespaart en een diepere reiservaring hebt. Het is uw A tot Z -planningsgids die de BBC de ‘Bijbel voor budgetreizigers’ noemde.
Klik hier om nog veel meer te leren en begin het vandaag te lezen!
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