George Manos serves as the president and CEO of THOR Executive Security Teams, a company headquartered in New York City. As a global traveler from a young age, George Manos gained appreciation for the benefits of traveling across the world and experiencing different cultures.
When you travel to another country, you gain perspective into other ways of doing things and looking at life. This experience will benefit you in numerous ways on a conscious and subconscious level as it challenges your thinking mind and your physical brain with two important results:
1. Broadening Your Mind
By experiencing different ways of approaching life, you open your mind to new ways of seeing the world. Studies show that travel abroad can increase neuroplasticity, increasing neural pathways and stimulating increased firing of synapses. This can develop increased creativity skills in your brain as well.
2. Increasing Your Confidence
Psychological research indicates that overcoming challenges and stepping a little outside your comfort zone can improve confidence. Traveling abroad certainly offers plenty of difficulties to overcome and you can often see clear results. Study-abroad students, for example, report increased levels of confidence. They also find employment at a much higher rate than their peers.
