On Developing Your Personality (Intro)
On Developing Your Personality Travel. Get on planes, trains, buses that take you somewhere you’ve never been. Get lost in cities where you don’t speak the language. Eat the street food. Talk to strangers. Your personality doesn’t develop in your comfort zone, it develops when you’re slightly terrified and completely alive. On Food and Culture Eat great food. Not just fancy food, but real food. The stuff that makes locals line up at 5 AM. The family recipe that takes all day. The hole in the wall spot with plastic chairs and the best dal you’ve ever tasted. Food is culture on a plate. Every meal that matters teaches you something about people, about place, about paying attention. On Reading Read good books. Read voraciously. Read things you disagree with. Read poetry even if you think you hate poetry. Read history, read fiction, read memoirs of people who lived lives nothing like yours. Books are how you live a thousand lives in one. On Movies and Perspective Watch interesting movies. ...