How to Reinvent Yourself When You Travel

Guilherme Ribeiro | May 2, 2016

I remember when I left Brazil about eight years ago that all my friends thought I was the shy one and my brother the outgoing one. (I have a twin brother, by the way!) After living in London for a while, everybody thought exactly the opposite and I couldn’t really understand why.

What had I done that had changed me? Everything! When I first worked in hospitality and had to describe a menu for a table of 15 people with my intermediate English, I was super scared, but after a while, it was a piece of cake.

Could that have helped me? Probably, especially because public speaking became a lot easier, as did meeting other people and talking about any subject.

Steve Parker

What you have to remember is that you don’t have to travel abroad to try new things; even visiting a town close by for a couple of days on your own might reveal hidden aspects of your personality.

Is there anything you’d like to be doing, but you feel trapped in your own life? Now is the time to muster the courage and fight for a new self!

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