Each person will offer a different mental model of the world, and exposure to these models will diversify your own.

Choose media that challenges your assumptions rather than confirms them.

Different experiences expand how you view the world, making it easier to combine ideas in new ways

When you see yourself as many things at once – whether that’s your profession, your neighborhood, your hobbies, your generation – you become more nuanced and flexible as a person.

I wasn’t just switching languages – I was switching entire ways of thinking. And I was doing it without realizing it.