In his article article For a More Creative Brain, Travel, published in The Atlantic on 31st March, Brent Crane quotes Mark Twain, who sailed around the coast of the Mediterranean in 1869, and wrote in his travelogue Innocents Abroad that travel is “fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” The rest of Twain's quote (not in the article) continues "... and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime".
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Crane also quotes Adam Galinsky, a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of numerous studies on the connection between creativity and international travel, who says “Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms".
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