Why international travel is your best life and career investment.

The one thing millennials have figured out is that spending money on experiences is way more valuable than buying a new sofa. In 50 years you won’t remember the sofa, but you will remember the travel adventures and they will have been part of your cumulative life experience.

Following up on the most recent article I published on how college rejected my application — and how that rejection ended up with me moving to Italy, I’d like to talk here about how nothing compares to international travel when it comes to a real world education. Here are five reasons why you should use your passport as much as you can.

Language

I learned Italian from scratch at age 20 living in Rome. I studied Italian for one semester in the USA before going overseas to Rome, but when I landed there I quickly realized I was very far from speaking fluent Italian. All in it took me several years to get to become fluent.

School gives you the technical foundation like sentence structure but ordering a coffee at the bar fine tunes your ear to the right order of sounds that quickly you learn to replicate if you want a cappuccino to show up in front of you.

It’s like going to the gym, the first day is not so good, but over time you build up language muscles. The…