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| Learn while you travel |
Learning is always fun especially when it is while you are travelling. Travelling teaches many valuable things which we can apply in our work too. Below mentioned are few skills which I feel correlate at work and while you travel -
- Keep calm : Delayed flights / trains; least preferred hotel rooms, always-complaining passenger and so on teaches you how to keep cool and enjoy the trip. Being adaptable to situations and circumstances also helps in managing stress.
- Time management:
This is one of the most important skills that we learn especially while travelling with children. Advance research on the places to visit and their working / opening hours could help in saving lot of time.
- Visualization: When travelling with different groups of people, we learn how each individual
thinks or feels about a place thus broadening our thinking too.
- Planning: Imagine, it’s your toddler’s lunch time and you are in the middle of a boat
ride where there is no food available. Timely planning could have avoided this
situation where the toddler could have been fed before getting onto the ride.
- Communication: It is very important to communicate in the right manner keeping in mind
different cultures have different ways to interpret things. Always be a good
listener to be able to communicate better while travelling.
- Appreciation : As we travel, we also learn about different cultures of different
countries. We enjoy listening to and discovering their history. Appreciating the
same will enable us to adapt to different cultures easily.
- Make friends:
Making friends with strangers while on travel helps in understanding their culture better by learning their language, tasting their local food and so on. It is so amazing to discover how every individual from every culture is so unique and different. - Curiousness: The inquisitiveness to know about a place helps to improve our knowledge and enhances
the cognitive skills too.
- Be adventurist: It is good to experiment new ideas and experience things out of the comfort zone.
No matter where and how you travel, you are always learning something useful. Similarly, whatever work/ job you do, learning from mistakes & developing new skills takes place on a regular basis.
