Here’s a good read, if you have the time, about how traveling expands our creativity. It’s from The Guardian, a British paper. I’ve been on this same roll as the author, Jonah Lehrer, for a while now, trying to crusade for conversion to travel. Lehrer says it expands your creativity to travel, but I would have to add that it also expands your compassion and empathy. The mind and the heart, equally important to solving our personal, local and global problems. Also equally expanded by travel.
Read it here, Why we travel.
One of his last lines reads, “we travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”
As I head home for the first time in nearly a year, I’m guessing this is right on the money.
