Most travel content is designed to keep you scrolling instead of going

Here's what actually happens when you travel:

The world isn't the dangerous hellscape the media sells you. Most people you meet will help you figure out where you're going, share their food (no promises), and tell you stories that reshape how you see everything.

You don't need the "top 10 destinations" everyone else photographs. Go somewhere unexpected. Like the Perşembe Plateau in Aybastı, Türkiye - calm, gorgeous, and completely absent from travel blogger lists. You'll come back with perspectives no one else has because you went where no one else goes.

But here's the real secret: The transformation doesn't come from the destinations. It comes from putting yourself in situations where your assumptions get challenged daily. Where you can't rely on familiar systems and have to figure things out.

Travel is systematic perspective expansion. Every country forces you to see money, relationships, work, and life differently. After 50+ countries, I can tell you the patterns: your problems at home are smaller than you think, and your capacity for adaptation is bigger than you know.

Stop consuming travel content. Start planning your first trip.

Pick one place. Buy the ticket. Figure out the rest when you get there.

The world is waiting for you to show up in person.