The final point that I wanted to make is this notion of talking to strangers.
And that's a poetic way of sort of saying,
look, you can learn a great deal about a country.
You can have the right emotional attitude in terms
of avoiding cultural hubris, cultural arrogance around your own culture.
But that said, there's a lot of evidence suggesting
that building up feelings of empathy really requires interpersonal
contact, and of course, there are different forms of
interpersonal contact electronic is not as good as face-to-face.
One way is not as good as two way, etc.
But the point is, that ultimately, it's much, much more
likely that you develop the, the ability to be an effective
boundary spanner in a corporate context and to enrich yourself and
the way you think of the world in a personal context.
If you're actually willing to go to aggressively try and
stretch beyond the filter bubbles that we're all subject to.
If you really push yourself, if you really
make time in your life, and especially if you
really try and connect at an individual person-to-person people
with people who are from countries other than yourselves.
So, those in a nutshell are my five
recommendations for how to craft a more global you.
This is an area that I'm currently working on so, we will
ask you, at the end of this session, to fill out a much
longer survey, that's actually a research instrument, that's going to, ideally help
us, help allow us to systematize some of the insights on the previous slide.
And, if you take the trouble to fill out the survey, we
will be reporting back to you on what the results to the survey
actually indicated and what progress we're
making at further sorting out this complicated
matter of how people can stretch their horizons and make themselves more global.