Working
abroad improves your problem solving and creativity. It’s
well established that working and studying abroad can make you more creative,
entrepreneurial and mentally agile. Essentially, working in a new
country and culture provides a host of mental benefits, such as flexibility, problem solving, deep thinking and an improved
ability to discern subtle underlying connections and associations.
There are many reasons for this, but the critical factor is novelty: as
an evolutionary trait, humans crave new experiences. One study centered around a problem-solving game
where adults could match and pick select pictures for cash prizes, had a
surprising result: it found that participants often went for new options, even
over tried-and-true choices that had yielded cash in previous rounds. Thanks to
MRI scans, researchers soon discovered the reason behind this puzzling
behavior: apparently, choosing new tiles were associated with spikes of brain
activity in areas–suggesting that people are, after all, hardwired to seek out
the unfamiliar.
A similar
dynamic is at work when you go abroad, whether for travel, study or work. From
living in an unfamiliar nation with a different culture, your brain will have
to deal with a flood of unexpected, exciting stimuli, forcing it to form new neural connections in
the process, and strengthening your overall mental
capabilities. Cultural experience can help
your career.
Globalization and world
trade have deepened ties between countries. In 2016, America imported $2.3 trillion worth of goods and exported $2.7 trillion of products overseas, mostly capital goods like
aircraft and industrial machinery, along with industrial supplies and consumer
goods.
Economies that are interdependent to a degree never seen before need
skilled, culturally savvy individuals to navigate this complex business
ecosystem. Those who have done business in foreign nations have a leg up
on competitors who have never ventured abroad
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