Here's How Traveling Makes You A Better Person
*Books next trip immediately*
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Because you are a person living on this Earth, there is a 99.999999% chance that you really like taking trips.
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But travel is so much more than stunning IRL sunsets and that #daydrinking life. It's also good for your mind and your soul. Here are 13 amazing effects travel has on your brain.
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A recent study from the Academy of Management Journal found that people who worked overseas were more imaginative and inspired than those who stayed in the U.S. Why? It's all about cultural immersion.
"People who integrate a new culture into their identities are more creative in the long run," William Maddux, Ph.D., the study's lead author, tells BuzzFeed Life.
His logic: Doing as the locals do for an extended period of time opens up your mind, forcing you to think in different ways and bounce around between different ideas. It's a concept scientists very fancily refer to as "cognitive flexibility." And the more ~cognitively flexible~ you are, the more creative you will be.
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