Travel presents experiences of other lifestyles, cultures, values and convictions. Expansion is gained by personal deliberation reflected in their own lives.
Travel teaches diversity. The value of that cannot fail but to broaden the mind. Allowing for sensitivity to differences: becoming more flexible, creative and sociable.
To see how others see things, observation of their lifestyles and convictions, values and beliefs helps you adapt your own lifestyle and convictions when dealing with situations circumstance and change. However learning about different cultures and beliefs can be stressful. Feelings that personal beliefs and cultures are challenged. Such feelings could block the ability to acquire anything: therefore gaining little from this aspect of travel.
Travel can be clouded by self-doubt or particular situations- ‘ where did I put the tickets’, adding stress to the experience. This stress shadows the real learning objective. Hence,‘It is the consequences of travel that truly broadens the mind’.
It could be argued that not all travelling experiences broaden the mind. Brief or mundane trips serve no new or stimulating senses, deeper submersion or integration would unveil the assets. This evokes the statement ‘It it how the individual travels’ all be it brief, it is what they chose to absorb from this, that decides whether it has broadened there mind.
Travelling to new places puts you in new situations, even unpleasant experiences serve to broaden the mind: a gain of self understanding, personal preference and capability, that pushes for personal reflection.
I feel it is hard to do most things especially travel, without broadening the mind, if only you learn, how to do it better next time.
As with travel, it is how the individual defines ‘Broaden the mind’. For me, broadening the mind could be learning one small detail or adopting a whole new way of life.
Travel is an extension of the fundamental element of human nature: to learn from others and surroundings, simply on a larger scale.
