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

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.

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

Choose media that challenges your assumptions rather than confirms them.

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