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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing
at all - Helen Keller
How and why does travel
make you more awesome ?
Let me count the ways: Now, I'll happily talk to
strangers like we've been
best friends for years.
More social: It's sink or
swim on the road. You either
get better at making friends
or you end up alone, crying
each night into a pillow. You
learn to make friends out of
strangers and get more
comfortable talking to new
people. When I first started
traveling, I was kind of an
introvert and uncomfortable
talking to those I didn't know. 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,
Once a year go someplace you've never
been before - Dalai Lama
how long they've been travelling,
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 more
about the person.
More confident: You've traveled
the world. Hiked Mt. Everest.
Dived the Great Barrier Reef.
Wined and dined that beautiful
French girl in Paris, navigated
unknown cities, and conquered
your fear of heights.