When you travel, the best and most genuine way is aiming for cultural immersion. Cultural immersion is when you assimilate into the local culture by integrating into the community and connecting with the local people. It’s important to possess an understanding of how...
Our comfort zones are, in a word, comfortable. They’re familiar places we’ve grown accustomed to with environments that are familiar to us. We surround ourselves with the known and the experienced as a way to lull ourselves into contentment because to be comfortable...
Somewhere within almost all of us–whether it is outward and apparent or buried deep inside behind a veil of “I can’t” and “I won’t” statements–is the desire to explore. This feeling of “wanderlust” can only truly be satisfied through adventure and...
Having a global perspective–a wider understanding of how the world works inside and out–can be beneficial not only in your personal life, but in your career. While people like Fred Cook may have taken some odds jobs leading up to a career in public...
Before Fred Cook, current CEO of global PR giant Golin, was president, director, or chief-executive-anything, he worked as a cabin boy on a ship. An atypical career choice, perhaps, but one that Cook doesn’t regret at all. In fact, Cook credits the time he...
