Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
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Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more.
Interpretation
Travel enriches your life experiences and perspective, enhancing your personal growth.
This quote emphasizes that investing in travel is one of the most enriching decisions one can make for personal development. By experiencing different cultures and lifestyles, you gain insights that foster a deeper appreciation for life and your own home, ultimately leading to a more fulfilled existence.
In practice
In a seminar about personal development, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of experiences over material possessions.
Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
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