Thread by @levelsio

If I didn't go travel in my early 20s I'd now be working an office job instead of having built a $10M+ business WHILE traveling

Travel is the single most impactful thing you can do to broaden your perspective

Go travel please and never stop

https://twitter.com/LiamKircher/status/1469325154169745410

Not saying I'm not an outlier, but OP tweet mentions you kill success, so I think worthy to mention biz

I also agree everyone should just do whatever they want, but going abroad is scary and sometimes you need a little push like this tweet to go!

Before I studied abroad in Korea in 2009 my world view was literally the Netherlands and that was it. Now it's the entire world. Going abroad has pros and cons. Cons are less ties to one place. Pros are more ties and a more broad view of the world, society and humanity.

On entrepeneurship: obviously travel helped me to stumble upon nomading and remote work which is my niche. But even if not for that, traveling broadens your perspective and that can give you more ideas to build stuff. For ex seeing a diff product/app abroad you can sell at home.

A lot of stuff in Asia for example is 5 to 10 years ahead of the West. See delivery apps, live streaming, ecommerce, selling on live streams. 10 years ago delivery apps were already big in Asia. 5 years ago livestream boom had already happened in Korea/China. Etc.

When I told friend about the Twitch streamers to OnlyFans lead gen saga from months ago, they told me they didn't get why it was special? This was already mainstream 5y ago in Korea and supercommon

You don't necessarily need to travel to get this edge though, but if you travel you make new friends and those friends will tell you about their reality and than can include stuff you can get ideas from that aren't big yet in the West (or your country)

Also travel can teach you about racism A LOT. You'll learn most of the world is way way way more racist and in different ways than the so much vocalized racism in the West. And if you're white you'll exp discrimination for the first time in your life which is a good lesson.

"In different ways" as in people are not necessarily hostile, just not-PC like Americans. That brings me to the topic of Americans. Americans are like #1 at needing to travel abroad. They have some of the most limited world views due to their mass media focused only on US.

Traveling allows you to try different personalities in diff places

If you're shy, arrive to a new city and try being an extravert person and vice versa

It really helps you develop your personality instead of being stuck in the same social group where your identity is fixed!

Traveling also short circuits all your programming about life

Convos w/ ppl in my home country quickly turn to what I'm supposed to do in their socio-cultural-gov-mandated script of life

When you're not part of that anymore you can do whatever you want

https://twitter.com/Samueltates/status/1470314295724371969?s=20

Once you have that script of life out of the way you also become less judgmental

If anyone should do whatever they want (without hurting others) then it's hard to judge people for life choices because most judgement is based on that socio-cultural-gov-mandated script of life

Life then becomes very simple: you simply exist, you do what you want, you enjoy the ride

You don't need to impress people by doing or buying stuff you don't want

Because there's no script to adhere to except your own!

This took me some 7 years of being abroad to slowly realize and develop though and some therapy sessions too! Most of my nomad friends think the same/similar. It's a very refreshing and low stress group of people because they're quite in touch with what they want.