30 human discoveries, travels the world alone

A couple of years ago when Shawn life was not the way he wanted, he decided to create his own "list of growth", which recorded all the goals that I would like to achieve in the near future. The first place in this peculiar rating was a great travel.

Over the past 15 months he has traveled many cities in different parts of the world: Paris, Munich, Buenos Aires, Cusco, Medellin, New York - and this is only the beginning of a grand journey. Here are the important lessons which Sean Kim learned, wandering the world alone.

1. You hate loneliness with all my heart ...

Stepping off the plane to land some strange country, you will be absolutely sure to worry, nervous and feel can not be lonely. Do not panic: this contradictory range of feelings had a chance to experience all kinds of travelers at the beginning of their adventure.

2.... and then it like crazy

You will start to receive from loneliness pleasure. Think about it, is there anything more beautiful than freedom and opportunity to do what you want and when you want it?

3. You get rid of the power of things

The transition from a comfortable life in their own home and travel to a personal car to poluotshelnicheskomu lifestyle with a rucksack on his back after a while enables you to understand how great was the power of things over you.

Things have to spoil the property can not be said of the experience gained and experiences. You will understand that more important to you.

4. You understand that quality is better than quantity

We live in a world governed by a number. And the number is larger, the better. Calculus gives in all: number of friends in social networks (the more, the better you remember, right?), a tidy sum in a bank account, the number of floors in the highest skyscraper.

It is the same with the number of places that you have visited. Where better to spend three months in one city, to immerse themselves in its culture and atmosphere than in the same time with the language on the shoulder to try to win a dozen.

5. You will learn a new language

Awareness of how the world is really great, and the order in which bubble you live, will come only when you start to travel. For example, you will be able to communicate freely with only 12% of people in the world, if you know how to speak only in English. The best way to understand the remaining 88% - to learn another language. Only one knowledge of Spanish increases your chances of being understood in the rest of the world as much in twice.

Each of us has access to the Internet, and it automatically nullifies all attempts to justify his laziness lack of opportunities to learn the language. It does not remain no obstacles: you can do anytime, anywhere. Living in a multilingual world automatically imposes certain obligations on us.

6. You will learn to love yourself

Traveling alone - the time it alone with yourself you can spend. You will get a great opportunity to be alone with their innermost thoughts and feelings. This is not an easy test would be to have a really valuable lesson.

7. You will realize that no one and no obligation

There is a huge difference between the internal and external confidence in itself. External assurance can be affected, and it must be able to constantly monitor so as not to lose face in front of others.

Much more important is your inner confidence. Stop worrying about what other people think of you, it takes too much effort. Focus on what you want, and just do it.

8. It is important to be honest about their successes and failures

When you are traveling alone, the responsibility for making decisions entirely rests on your shoulders. Supporting and will help no one. In that case, if the decision turned out to be a disaster, have the courage to admit it to myself to avoid future similar situations.

9. We must trust our intuition

Every day, we take a huge amount of important and not solutions. You will never be able to figure out all the possible options and calculate the perfect formula for success. Use intuition - it is your key to survival.

10. Home is where you are

Here, just like in the famous quote: "Wherever you went, you take yourself with you." your habits sooner or later will be felt.

11. You need to merge with a place in which come

Whichever city you visit or conceived, try to find it at 100%. Learn the local language, chat with the locals, try traditional food. Do not be the person who should be throughout the crowd of tourists.

12. Understand that it is important for you ...

You will hear a lot of exciting life stories of the people you meet along the way. Learn about the incredible success stories (from the squalid rags to incalculable wealth), about the deadly disease of insurmountable difficulties - the list is endless. Think about what could tell you about myself yourself.

13.... and who is important to you

Your continued absence from the trip will allow you to understand how truly important people in your life. We often burden themselves with the closeness that we do and do not need: artificial relations with its neighbors, friendly - with former classmates, "for show" - with colleagues. Rid yourself of all this by checking the distance relationships.

14. Remove the phone away

There is something magical about riding in a totally unfamiliar city. When we travel, we become more receptive mindset is changing, and love are tied much easier. Do not let telephone destroy the magic. Take him away.

15. Be strange

Life is too short to exist only in the framework of which most people find acceptable and permissible. Do not be predictable, and do not do what all of you are waiting for.

Unleash the weird side, which everyone has. Risk.

16. There are many things that need to learn

We do not know much about the world and the people who inhabit it - about their culture, values, language, eating habits, and further down the list. The truth is that most of us live in a very closed world, which includes only a couple of dozens of relatives of people and places that we used to attend.

We did not even try to do something about the situation, to look beyond the familiar world and try something new. We forget that "the more we know, the less we know."

17. Do not say, and do

You can spend all day talking about how it would be great perform task, and do not take any, even the most insignificant, trying to bring it to life.

In the world there are many people whose work ten times harder than yours, and at the same ten times less pay. Most of us can not imagine what is actually hidden under the expression "hard work."

18. There is no such thing as a "stranger"

You will cease to perceive men as ordinary strangers. Meeting in hostels with similar travelers, you will start to capture a kind of mental connection between you that you can not explain, but easy to feel.

19. Vulnerability - not a sign of weakness

You will need some time to understand that in a time of vulnerability and demonstration of weakness there is nothing wrong. Sometimes it is necessary to give out the accumulated emotions. The ability to recognize their mistakes and correct them rather characterizes you as a strong personality, rather than vice versa.

20. Look at the people without masks

One of the most wonderful things in the journey - it's the people around you. When they do not stifle social constraints and conventions, they reveal quite a different angle. You will be able to find out what they really are.

21. Kill all her kindness

It is much easier to break a man, than to try to understand the situation and respond appropriately. Try to be generous to all, and you will not regret any of the saved power, nor sberezhonnyh nerves.

22. Bring books

During the trip, our brain is more receptive, and it can have a positive impact on your level of creativity. Read during the flights, direct at the airport, while hitchhiking - you may well be able osilivat a book a week.

23. Make the spontaneity of his second "I"

During the trip, will often be situations where necessary to radically change their plans. Learn to be less conservative and be prepared to take spontaneous decisions.

24. Look for like-minded people

We all know this quote: "If you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go away - go together." In difficult moments, you will comfort the idea that there are a lot of people in the world who share your views.

25. show kindness

The easiest, but at the same time the most effective way to make the world a better place - spontaneously show kindness to strangers to you people.

26. Sympathy to those who really need it

It's hard to sympathize with people who complain that their booking restaurant reservations canceled for an unknown reason, or the fact that they got not the most comfortable place in the airplane.

Traveling the world, you will meet a lot of hard workers who earn less than $ 5 a day, and still manage to help their families. They just do not have time to whine and complain.

27. Invest in yourself

In a single journey of your number one goal should be Taking care of yourself favorite. I take this opportunity while you can.

28. Place global goals

Set yourself some ambitious goal that will benefit not only to you. This goal will serve as a guiding light when you encounter with life's difficulties and obstacles. The essence of the global goal is that you will go to it, not only to satisfy their own interests, but even then, not to let the people who are counting on you.

29. Be able to stand my ground and Learn to accept defeat

Be brave enough to stand solidly for those beliefs, in which you believe. But also have strength to recognize that answers to absolutely all questions you do not.

30. We are all just people

Travel The irony is that we aim to explore as many different cultures as possible and to communicate with a greater number of people, so that later, after returning home, to see that all people are the same. Poor, rich, Asians, Hispanics - we all play in the same game called life. And we all want the same thing: love, respect, and a secure future.