Perspective and Travel

While talking about how our personalities develop, the speaker mentions that traveling, reading, and other 1 can affect the life choices we make. A person who may never have left Ohio is not going to 2 themselves doing anything wildly different. He states that we are limited by our world view and can only draw upon our own 3 and hopes. He then relates the fact that our ability to communicate and travel, of which space travel is a wildly 4 version, has greatly improved. Being in space widens and deepens your world view, making it difficult to maintain artificially drawn 5 You see how people have the same hopes and dreams 6 themselves. He admits that the first time around the planet can be 7 Further revolutions, however, lead to the realization that the planet is not very big, which is an important 8 to have. Life can be full of magnificent experiences, like going to a cathedral or walking into a gigantic ancient 9 forest.