According to numerous studies, traveling improves personal skills and speeds up learning processes. Seeing is believing
They say that a journey is lived 3 times: when you dream when you live and when you remember. Booking a plane ticket is in fact an act of courage and freedom that is good for mental health. This is confirmed by numerous studies in science and psychology, which testify how traveling improves personal skills and speeds up learning processes. Here are 5 good reasons to pack your suitcase and set off to discover a new destination.
Traveling helps you to know yourself better and find yourself
Leaving your comfort zone and leaving for a new journey, although initially, it can cause a sense of discomfort, is essential for personal growth because it allows us to increase our emotional stability, our resilience, and even self-esteem. In fact, embarking on stimulating adventures helps you to get to know yourself better, put yourself to the test and focus on your life with new eyes. All this is also thanks to the interaction, the sense of connection, and trust with other people. In addition, traveling with your partner or friends allows you to share experiences and create memories that can strengthen your relationships. Planning it (from the choice of the destination to the itinerary, to the purchase of tickets) and then living it facilitates proximity and increases collaboration.
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Increase creativity and problem-solving skills
According to a study conducted by the Academy of Management Journal, those who have had professional experiences abroad have more imagination than people who have never moved and are able to solve a problem with more mental elasticity. William Maddux, the lead author of the study, says that “people who integrate a new culture into their identity are more creative in the long run.” Merging with new languages, habits, and customs is, therefore, the key to a real increase in creativity because it trains the mind to think differently and to welcome new ideas. Scientists call it “cognitive flexibility”, or the ability of the brain, which is extremely sensitive to change, to adapt quickly to new experiences and environments. Not only that, there are also positive effects on cognitive functions. Our brain suffers from excessive repetition of the same stimuli (like walking the same road every day), so the holiday improves memory capacity and learning.
Traveling reduces stress
Mind and body occasionally ask us to take a break from the pressing commitments and stress of everyday life. What better way than with a trip? Traveling allows you to interrupt the routine to touch, see and hear new things that give a unique feeling of relaxation and freedom. In fact, it has been scientifically proven that after 3 days of vacation, the examined travelers feel rested, less stressed, and in a good mood. Effects that last up to two weeks after returning home. Furthermore, the holiday favors the production of endorphins, the famous hormones of well-being that induce the sensation of pleasure and euphoria.
Makes you happier
According to research published in Cornell University’s Journal of Consumer Psychology in the United States, traveling is pure happiness. During the study, done on 17,000 people from 17 different countries, 70% of the participants confirmed that the money spent on planning a trip can produce longer-lasting happiness than that spent on objects because the latter represents a real but short satisfaction. while travel is a long-term rewarding experience that starts right from the moment you plan. Dutch psychologist and researcher Jeroen Nawijn has also studied the correlation between happiness and travel. Observing several tourists, he found that traveling made them 20% more satisfied than non-travelers. A satisfaction that grows as the days of travel increase up to the penultimate before departure.
