[Intermediate] 7 Life Lessons Learned Only Through Travel

★ empowers 권한을 주다

to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something

ex) The first step in empowering the poorest sections of society is making sure they vote.

 

★ humility 겸손

the quality of not being proud because you are aware of your bad qualities

e) He doesn't have the humility to admit when he's wrong.

 

★ humanity 인류, 인간

people in general

ex) Science has indeed provided much for humanity.

 

★ integrate 통합시키다

to mix with and join society or a group of people, often changing to suit their way of life, habits, and customs

ex) He seems to find it difficult to integrate socially.

 

★ cognitive flexibility 인지유연성

Cognitive flexibility is the human ability to adapt the cognitive processing strategies to face new and unexpected conditions in the environment.

 

★ tangible 실재하는, 유형의

real and not imaginary; able to be shown, touched, or experienced

ex) We need tangible evidence if we're going to take legal action.

 

★ mishap 불운

bad luck, or an unlucky event or accident

ex) The parade was very well organized and passed without mishap.

 

Quizzes

The company is planning to _________ management.

Science _________ men to control natural forces.

None of the three conferences led to any _________  results.

_________  is considered a virtue in Korean society.

 

 

Questions

1. What are some of the benefits of traveling?

2. Where did you spend your last vacation? What did you do?

3. Where is the most amazing place you have been?

 

 

Script

Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.

 

1. Travelling empowers the learner inside of us. Increases our curiosity and humility. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that kids who study abroad were more humble than those who didn’t travel.

 

2. Travelling makes you sharper. Being in the outdoors refreshes your senses in a way that no office air ever could. The latest evidence in the Journal of Environmental Psychology researchers found that people who simply looked at a photo of nature for only 40 seconds had improved focus and performance on their next task.

 

3. Travelling increases your faith in humanity. Maddox found in his research that travelling the world increases your faith in humanity. The more foreign countries people travel to the more their sense of generalized trust increases. Seeing all of the good that exists in the world, makes it easier to trust, that most people for the most part, are just trying to do the right thing.

 

4. Traveling makes you more creative. A recent study from the Academy of Management Journal found that people who worked overseas were more imaginative and inspired, then those who stayed in their home country. People who integrate a new culture into their identities, are more creative in the long run. Doing as the local 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 called, cognitive flexibility. And the more cognitively flexible you are, the more creative you will be.

 

5. Traveling gives you a wider perspective. Travel gives you a birds eye view. Travelling helps us look at our lives from a distance both physically and metaphorically. And when you do that, you’re able to see things a lot more clearly.

 

6. Traveling makes us happier. A new study from the Psychological Science found that anticipating an experience, before it even happened, makes you happier than if you’re waiting for something tangible like a new smartphone.

 

7. Traveling makes you more patient. Dealing with delays, mishaps, and different cultures during travels, makes you a much more patient and understanding person overall. And this is my favorite thought, at first travel leaves you speechless, and then it turns you into a storyteller.

 

 

Answers

integrate/empowers/tangible/humility