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* * Travel broadens mind Issue.1102 April 29 , 2015 Be smart, dress the part Retelling exercise Detailed Study Travel broadens mind General Questions After reading this article, can you retell the main idea of it? The following phrases serve as memory triggers. You can also take down key words to remind you. There are plenty of things to be gained from travel… But travel does more than all that…creative… …a clear correlation between the creative output of fashion designers and how much time they’d spent abroad. Retelling exercise Skimming and scanning: Find the answers to the following quesitons as quickly as possible. Instruction 1.What can we benefit from travel? 6. What were Mark Twain’s remarks about travel? There are plenty of things to be gained from travel, including getting to know new people and cultures and acquiring new experiences. Travel also broadens our minds. General Questions US author Mark Twain, who sailed around the coast of the Mediterranean in 1869, wrote in his travelogue Innocents Abroad that travel is “fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” 3.What did the 2009 study find out? 4. Why fashion designers get creative when they go abroad? An obvious reason for this is that many of the designers were inspired by what they’d seen while living abroad. Being in a new place practically forces creative work out of you.  General Questions The 2009 study by the Kellogg School of Management in the US and INSEAD, a global business school, found students who lived abroad for an extended period were better at creative problem solving than those who did not. 5. What did Galinsky’s study find besides the correlation between travel and creativity? 4.What did Mary Helen say about travel? Galinsky’s study found that people who frequently traveled from one place to another didn’t have enough time to immerse themselves in a new place and a new culture. They weren’t as creative as the people who took the time to really g