Travel Reference
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your spare time, such as watching television, will lose their appeal and gradually fade out
of your life. You'll be motivated and stimulated to learn more about your destination, to
further expand your appreciation for its culture, and to develop your understanding of its
language. As a result, you'll find yourself more fully engaged in your life, making choices
throughout your life that serve you and your goals more effectively.
A final benefit of the
Travel Every Day
program—and the most important one, in
my opinion—is that as a result of this increased level of engagement in your life, you'll be
happier. In fact, travel planning is ideally suited for achieving a pleasurable state of relaxed
concentration. Every aspect of it, whether it involves learning about history or music or
cuisine, relates to fundamental human pursuits and, as a result, every human being has the
capacity to successfully plan and conduct a life-changing trip.
The most fundamental human activity, and one that many people mistakenly think
they have little or no talent for, is language learning. In the next
chapter
, we'll learn why
many people feel they have no talent for language learning, why that feeling is misguided,
and how language learning can become productive and enjoyable.
