Travelling and planning skills

• Confident Communication. You will be forced to communicate with strangers on a daily basis.
• How to Cope in a Crisis. Travelling come with its fair share of tricky situations that requires you to work through them.
• A New Language. Immersing yourself in a culture is a great way to learn a foreign language.
• How to Prioritise. When you’re travelling you need to determine what is essential and what you can do without.
• Different Ways of Life.  Travelling, you get to see how people around the world choose (or are compelled) to live their lives.

1. To be more patient when things do not go as planned - and it happens on every trip. 
2. To leave your comfort zone. It's exhilarating to forget what's familiar for a bit and expand your horizons.
3. To be more curious. Being in new territory will probe new ideas and curiosities.
4. To appreciate other cultures. 
5. To live simply. You can survive with very, very little.
6. To make friends with strangers as travelling make you desperate for human interaction.
7. ...but to also embrace your solo travel experience.  You will come home with a new sense of independence.
8. To try new things as what you do at home doesn't always work when you travel.

9. To think creatively. Sometimes it takes a little thinking outside of the box to get by.

10. To find beauty in small things that you did not notice before you started your trip, like a home-cooked meal.

The more curious you are, the more people you'll meet. Mostly this involves asking a lot of questions.

Try it. The worst that could happen - someone doesn’t reply and stares at you.

When you get to a new place, ask yourself: "If I lived here, where would I go?" Look for cool events, gigs, and shows. 

It’s a great way to get away from all the tourist spots and into the cool neighborhoods where the locals actually hang out.

Subjects like maths and physics provide you with an appropriate base for lifelong learning. 

Another major component of this process refers to the high importance of learning through projects, which eventually enables students to gather up practical skills, that can easily be kept and improved throughout their life.

While resorting to lifelong learning may provide some advantages, such as enabling individuals of different ages and professional experience levels to share their knowledge, it also has certain disadvantages like the fact that the time the learners are supposed to devote to learning is decreasing the moments spent with their family.

• If you’re in your early 20s, most likely you don't have major life commitments, so this is the time to take the chance on the life you want: travel, experiment with your talents, start networking.
• If you’re in your 40s, 50s, 60s, or older, instead of retiring and taking up golf, maybe it’s time to triple down and really focus on what you want. 

A few smart strategies that can be deployed:

1. Installing pods for deep work while having common areas for collaborative work.
2. Wearing headphones that are easily seen to signal that you are not to be disturbed.
3. Turning your office into a library, following the same culture of quietness where everyone is hushed and respectful.

Real work, by definition, should be rare, valuable and cognitively demanding.

Email does not check any of these boxes, and is, therefore, a pseudo work.

Friendships require attention and tending — if we don’t truly know what a friend needs, and if we don’t clearly state what we’re feeling or needing ourselves, friendships just won’t survive.

Assume the best and give your friend the benefit of the doubt. If you’re quick to assume the worst and ready to lay down blame, you’re not going to be the kind of friend that anyone wants for the long haul. 

When we get rejected, our brains register an emotional chemical response so strong, it can physically hurt. 

We go through almost the same stages as if we were grieving (self-blame, trying to win back our rejecter because we hate being disliked, and feeling like a failure). These feelings are healthy and normal, so long as you don’t end up dwelling on them.

Rejection is personal, and it’s easy to start questioning your self-worth when someone makes it clear they don’t like you. 

But for the most part, being disliked is a matter of mutual compatibility. Keep in mind that likability has a lot to do with what you bring to someone else’s table, whether or not you realize it.