15 Ways Travel Helps You To Find Yourself

Who are you really? Some of us will spend a lifetime trying to figure this out.

While some are too afraid to know, preferring to let others tell them who they are and living life by default, others, possibly like you and me, need to find out for ourselves.

One of the best ways to learn about who you really are is to travel. Travel broadens your mind, makes you reflect on your own values and opinions, as well as helps you to understand the most important person in your world.

How can you live a rich and fulfilled life if you don’t understand what you stand for, what your interests are, where your strengths lie, and what you want to be remembered for?

In this article, we’ve shared the many ways in which travel helps you to find yourself.

Ways Travel Helps You To Find Yourself

1. Disconnection from cultural upbringings

There is so much about our cultural upbringings that gets in the way. They help shape who we are, and we don’t want to sever all ties to them, but traveling helps you disconnect from the limitations of them.

Travel helps you to inspect which parts of your culture you love and don’t want to live without. It also helps see the ones that may harm you or others and are not thing you want to take with you moving forward.

If you don’t step outside of them to get to know other ways how can you truly understand your cultural ways and how they impact your life? It’s all you know and “You don’t know what you don’t know!” (one of my favourite mind opening mantras).

Until I lived in the US, I didn’t know that the Tall Poppy Syndrome was uniquely Australian and that it was something that held me back for many years. I knew this was a part of my culture I didn’t like, so I dropped it and decided to embrace an entrepreneurial journey.

I’ve also had many Americans tell me they love how Australians can laugh at themselves. Again, I thought this was what everyone did – not just an Aussie thing.

The more I’ve lived around the world, the more I realise we are this way and I love it about my culture, so it’s something that I am keeping. You see your life from new perspectives this way.

Because if you don’t laugh, you cry!!

2. Removal from family and friends

So much of who we are is coloured by the perceptions of family and friends. You grow up being a certain person and those who love…