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Sketchplanations makes complex ideas simple with clear, insightful sketches. Explore topics from science, creativity, psychology, and beyond explained in pictures.

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Learn kind words first in new countries: a backpacker says nice things to a local seller with a cart, no doubt gets smiles in return

Learn kind words first in new countries

Learning and using kind words first when traveling will take you further than others. Before I enter a country with a new language, I write a list of these words and find out how to say them. It has served me well. Also, see be nice to tourists.
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Try a mindmap travel journal

Try a mindmap travel journal

One of the best things we did when on a significant traveling trip was to make our journal as a mindmap. There are all sorts of reasons why we found it better and more enjoyable to do at the time and better and more enjoyable once returned. Get a better idea than this sketchplanation by flicking through our mindmap travel journal (it gets better as we got better at it).
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Cafe consumption rates

Vary significantly depending on context and can tend to zero if you really have a lot of stuff to get through.
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De-seed pomegranates in a bowl of water

The fluff floats to the top and the seeds will sink to the bottom. And no squirting. HT Alex Maiereanu
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The Firehouse Effect

When cliques, of people, with a lot of time to chat, start to believe in things that would seem crazy to the wider population. So named after an observation of firemen who would spend a lot of time talking between fires. My intro to this was from Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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