It is sometimes said that ‘travel broadens the mind’. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

The increase in travelling opportunities has made it easier for society to explore new experiences across the world.

Travel

is said to broaden the

mind

,

although

when giving

this

statement

considerable thought, we understand why some

people

dispute

this

statement

. In

this

essay, I will highlight why on the one hand

travel

indeed broadens the

mind

, but

on the other

hand

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this

broadening is often of short duration, and thereby the

statement

is only partially correct.

Initially

, the

statement

is easy to agree with: when travelling you will see and experience new perspectives which you did not have before and these new perspectives will allow

people

to approach life and problems from a different angle.

For instance

, a person who works hard from early morning to late evening with a minimum amount of breaks will be enlightened by the Spanish habit of taking a two-hour break around noon to take a nap and a long lunch, enabling an improved mental capacity for the

second

part of the day.

As a result

,

this

traveller might reconsider their own approach and incorporate these Spanish practices upon return home. The

travel

undertaken by

this

person made

this

new perspective possible, and thereby we can state that their

mind

is broadened. Upon

further

inspection of the

statement

, we can see that it is faulty primarily because the effects are very limited and decrease over time.

Although

a traveller might learn a new perspective in the short term, in the long run

this

person is likely to fall back into old habits. To

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, most

people

have friends around them who came back from Tibet or Nepal and swore to do daily meditations, even though

this

intention was not long-lived. These and similar observations tell us that

travel

indeed temporarily broadens the

mind

, but

this

broadening is quickly forgotten within a few weeks.

Travel

broadens the

mind

implies incorrectly that it changes behaviour for the good, for the long term, which

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unfortunately does not. In conclusion,

travel

does broaden the

mind

, but only temporarily. In the future, I expect more and more

people

to be aware of

this

effect and focus on the sustainable newly learned perspectives to make their trips more worthwhile.