The Benefits of International Travel

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When you're somewhere else, it's a good way to get back more in touch with reality. We have a couple program delusions that it can help us get out of one is that we just are seeing our own life and our own world from the inside all the time. When you travel, even though it shouldn't actually matter because it's just you're physically somewhere different, but somehow the more from a foreign environment you're in.

ABOUT TIM URBAN

Tim Urban is a writer and bestselling author. Above all else, he spends a ton of time thinking about how we can think more effectively. Tim is the creator and author of the popular blog, Wait But Why, and the author of the new bestselling book What's Our Problem.

In this episode of the Elevate Podcast, revisit Robert Glazer's conversation with Tim from 2019. In a wide ranging conversation, Robert and Tim dig into Tim’s career as a writer, his TED Talk on why everybody is a procrastinator, and an eye-opening post Tim wrote that creates a visual timeline of a human life and emphasizes that we have less time with loved ones than we think, even in the best case scenario.

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