The World Is Not As Gloomy As You Think

The reason why travelling is amazing is because it gives you the ability to expand your worldview. It allows you to see your past preconceptions, see a different side of the world. When you travel to different countries you realise that people are much nicer than you initially thought. Strangers quickly become friends and all it takes to get started is just that initial leap out of your comfort zone.

Media portrays the world as this big, scary place where a lot of bad things happen. In reality these events are rather rare (although of course they happen), but the chance that they’ll happen to you is minimal. The human mind has a bias towards negative things (read more about this in a great book called “FACTFULNESS”). The thing that I’ve learned is to take news with a grain of salt, or if it’s not crucial, don’t look at them at all… Especially the free ones as their main motive is clicks (and not quality journalism). Shocking news catch our attention better than most things, which leads to more clicks, more ads seen, higher profit (note: not better news). There are so many things I could write about the news. Citing material from books such as Ryan Holiday’s “Trust me I’m Lying”, Nir Eyal “Hooked”, but that’s a story for another time. 

For me it’s quite clear that our view of the world is biased around our personal perception and travelling helps us remove that bias bit by bit. When we travel we start to understand how other people live, their culture, their traditions. This gives us the opportunity us to empathise with them and realise that we’re not that different after all. 

Traveling is the ultimate routine breaker. If you’re thinking where to spend your money, you’ll be surprised how much traveling will actually change your worldview and benefit your life.