We have quite enjoyed the 55-year-old funny man´s adventures through his Travel Channel series "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," "Bizarre Foods America," and "Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World." It all tells us how travel can help improve your mind.
The renowned television personality, food writer, and chef expressed how grateful he is for his travels. In one of Andrew Zimmern´s editorials, he demonstrates the difference between a traveler from a tourist. The Travel Channel star pointed out that other than the obvious benefits of traveling, it transforms the way you think about the world and about life.
Going far away, observing the locals from each place he stepped into, and mixing with different cultures -all these breaks down into learning the practical impact on the way you interact with your surroundings. In a report from Fast Company News, Zimmern quoted, "we're more interested in other people, more selfless."
When you travel, it encourages you to engage with people and stimulates your brain to be curious, even as simple as asking locals for directions. More importantly, you would become risk-a·verse without noticing it. It moves your overall emotions, psyche, and personality.
One of Zimmern´s remarks explains that being in a routine and just sticking around a familiar surrounding makes a person less attentive. It doesn´t feed your brain as much as when you are forced to learn something new in front of you. Traveling mops away this mental immersion of being in dull cyclical rounds.
It excites you to be more resourceful through the bizarre things you see from other cultures. The foodie personality remembers when he rejected his wife´s idea of recycling, and then he flew to Botswana for two weeks with the bushmen in the Kalahari. After watching the tribes work together weave reeds to create a rope, instantaneously, he went home much greener than his wife.
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