You may have seen all the feel-good sayings about why travel is important and how travel improves your life for the better. Your own experience may bear that out.
And you come back from your trip and you feel like the trip of a lifetime has changed you..like something changed in you..nobody understands what you went through. not. No one realizes the benefits of travel and the changes that happen in the depths of their hearts.
And you may have sat down and tried to explain everything to someone. I might have tried to tell them how things have changed.
They must not have understood.
(Unless, of course, they themselves are travelers, in which case they just nod their heads and say, “Okay, bro. I know.”)
In fact, travel changes you. This is one of the many unavoidable benefits. It may even be the most valuable benefit of all. Travel stimulates growth, and growth leads to a happier, healthier life.
This is the actual science of how travel makes your world—and ours—a better place.
1. Travel makes you more creative
The more I look, the more I come across new ideas and ways of thinking. But what effect do they have on you?
Professor, Columbia Business School decided to find out, using the fashion industry as his case study. Inspecting the creative work of the world’s top fashion houses for 11 years, He found a strong correlation between fashion designers’ foreign experience and their level of creative innovation..
Summarizing his findings AtlanticHe said:
Experience in a foreign country increases both cognitive flexibility and the depth and integration of thought, and enhances the ability to make deep connections between different forms… A key important process is the transition to multiculturalism. Engage, immerse, adapt. People who live abroad and are not exposed to the local culture are likely to have less creative inspiration than those who travel abroad and are deeply involved in the local environment.
Considering all the time spent thinking freely on planes, trains, and cars, all Creative people should spend time on the move.
2. Travel expands your mind
Researchers have found that students living abroad perform better on classic brain-stretching puzzles, and the reason behind that may just be a fix for the internet.
As the past few years have shown, the online world is a great place for discussion. Politics, equal rights, climate science, Mac vs PC, unicorn frappuccinos, we all have strong opinions on these things and are not afraid to share them.
But how many of us stop and consider all options thoroughly before typing?
The problem is that we have come to specifically believe what we know. But only by opening our boundaries, pushing our limits, and seeing more of the world can you discover just how much of yourself you are. please do not know.
of his latest New York Times bestsellerMark Manson wrote:
Do people who travel a lot argue online as much as people who never leave their homes? Someone should really do some research on that.
3. Travel reminds us that people are generally good
in him Guest post on Tim Ferriss’ blogworld-traveling photographer Gary Arndt began with the following “controversial” statement:
People are generally nice.
Many would argue otherwise. Every country has anti-social elements and disturbing media sources that quickly portray strangers and foreigners as: bad ombre“The world is dangerous. Stay home and stay safe!”
It’s easy to get discouraged by all this, even if it seems silly. What are the facts? Yes, there are good people in the world, but how many are there?
Get into science.
After scanning the brains of dozens of active humans, researchers at University College London seem to have found that humans are wired to be good —If you define goodness as “honest”. Honesty seems to be the trigger deep-seated satisfactionas the parts of the brain used to assess the long-term value of our actions become more active.
And if we cheat? These areas are less active. On a neurological level, everyone seems to know that crime doesn’t pay off.
Any experienced world traveler will tell you the same thing. One of the benefits of traveling is that the more people you meet, the more hospitality, generosity and honesty you meet. In Gary’s words:
They are people just like you and me who are trying to help their families and make a living for themselves. No race, religion or nationality is exempt from this rule.
4. Travel protects you from the disastrous effects of stress
At first glance, traveling seems much more stressful than living at home. What about stuffing anxiety, how about all the queues at the airport? How about taking off or rushing to meet your next connection?
Often this is our overloaded brain playing tricks on us. In fact, life at home is full of mental and physical pressures that damage our health.
family life I’ve never been so nervousMany people feel stressed about themselves work and life balanceand the happiness of young women on the slideWorse, these are all what most of us call ‘normal’. weight gain, burn out our immune system and suffer from all kinds of chronic diseases astonishingly fast.
Compared to these fears, the temporary stress of travel doesn’t seem so bad.
But that’s not all, says science. The simple act of being outdoors can do wonders for your body, especially if you’re in natural wilderness. decreased hormones, decreased heart rate, decreased blood pressure). Hiking in nature has been called “the ultimate inexpensive stress reliever.”
In 2009, a team of Dutch researchers found that people living within about half a mile of green space had lower rates of 15 ailments, including depression, anxiety, heart disease, diabetes, asthma and migraines. bottom.
crazier, more Looking in the photo The number of green spaces tells your brain positive boostIn a way, neither are you need Travel to reap the benefits of travel!
All this evidence suggests that travel isn’t it good for your health. (That being said, flying sucks. I can hear you clearly.)
5. Travel changes your perspective and keeps you entertained forever
Taking a long trip changes the way you look at life.
Just ask an astronaut.
Then something happens to you…you instantly develop a global consciousness, a human orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and an urge to do something about it.
— Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell
It is nicknamed “”.overview effect— and after it hits, you’ll never be the same.
If you’re looking for radical, life-affirming opportunities and NASA resources aren’t available, be brave. Psychologists believe that anyone can achieve anything if they change their mindset in the right way.
If astronaut awe is merely an expression of cultural attitudes, then the physical effects of space travel are not required to provoke the “perception effect”.
In my book, at least, world travel definitely qualifies.
Previous prejudices melt away. Old homegrown ideas about the world are proving inadequate for the complexity and diversity of the world. TRUE there. Your new open mind comes with a zeal to fill it.
Once your stress levels are removed, you will have a new awareness of your body, its capabilities, and what you should do to take care of it. When creativity soars, anything seems possible.
Travel is often accused of giving people a rosy view of the world, but I totally disagree. .And the scenery is overwhelming.
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