Exposing yourself to new experiences reinforces your ability to relate to people. Experiences allows you to connect to a greater number of people by creating bridges that facilitate similarities. The more experiences you have, the greater number of people you can potentially connect to. We are attracted to people most like us. It’s comforting. It’s familiar. Most people fear the unknown. It’s unnatural and disorienting to venture into unknowns. We lose sense of ourselves and our ability to navigate. As a result, most people stick to that which they know. We have confidence in ourselves in those situations and with those people we are most familiar.
The people that spend all their time studying or pursuing activities in solitary have trouble relating to people. They have poor interpersonal skills. I love sharing experiences with people; be it new experiences, new people or both. It’s fresh. It’s exciting. You learn from them and they learn from you. That’s why adventure is always so exciting. Adventure is inherently novel and filled with exciting unknowns.
William Dare 