It's 3:00 in the afternoon and I just finished the second leg of my journey to Tredegar, Wales. Initially, the plan was that after the plane and train, a taxi would take me to my hotel. But things were changing fast, so I sat down on a bench and waited to hear from my travel companions. A random stranger sat next to me, and for over an hour, we talked about politics, geography, and classic rock. Leading up to the trip, anxiety kept me up at night. I feared situations like this. But the deeper I got into the trip, the freer I felt. We eventually got to the hotel after planes, trains, automobiles, and a brief tour of an ironworks museum. It was a memorable trip, for a lot of reasons, but don't worry, I'm not going to bust out the slide projector and share everything. However, I do want to share seven lessons I learned traveling way beyond my comfort zone.
7 Lessons I Learned Traveling Beyond My Comfort Zone:
- Sometimes you have to leave your day-to-day reality to find a new one.
- The least likely of places can have a massive impact.
- Multi-tasking is creative death.
- Digital connection is great, but it will never be as impactful as being in the same space as your creative mentors, guides, and muses.
- It's one thing to need isolation to think, write, and produce creative work, it's another thing to isolate yourself from other people entirely.
- What you can actually control is pretty clear when you are thousands of miles away from your normal life.
- It's okay if the dream is gone as long as you follow the clues to a new future.
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