Forever Nomad: The Ultimate Guide to World Travel, From a Weekend to a Lifetime (Life Nomadic Book 2)

by Tynan

make sure it’s not just fear inventing an excuse for you to stay within your comfort zone.

If you feel as though travel is too risky, too uncertain, or too expensive, think about where that belief actually comes from. It probably comes from either outdated experience, or from “common knowledge”, which hasn’t been updated with the conditions of today.

I Do The Work An attitude I’ve adopted and found very helpful in maintaining international friendships is that I always do the work. In other words, I’m the one who has chosen an unconventional lifestyle, so I believe that it’s my responsibility to bear most of the burden of maintaining the friendship.

If you’re going to be somewhere for more than a few days, make an effort to learn key phrases of the language, even if you have no intention of learning more than that. Just using those key phrases is a big indicator that you are interested in learning about a country. It shows that you don’t expect everyone to learn English for your convenience.

if you keep experiencing the same things, your mind keeps its same patterns. Same input, same response. Your brain, which was once curious and growing, gets fixed into deep habits. Your values and opinions harden, and resist change. If you don’t flex, you lose your flexibility.

realize that your beliefs are not correct—they’re just the quaint local culture of where you grew up. You are a product of your environment.