The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Travel helps you adjust your expectations by showing you reality instead of illusions.
- In plain terms
- Traveling helps you see things as they really are, not just how you think they are.
- What can you take from it?
- Experience corrects imagination and builds a realistic worldview.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What assumptions would travel change?
- Is seeing really believing?
Another view
Travel can also reinforce biases if not done with an open mind.
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