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In a reflective Medium essay, writer David Suaza Cardona draws on research by Columbia Business School Professor Adam Galinsky to explore how travel shapes identity. After a trip to Taiwan, where he hiked Taroko National Park and explored Green Island, Cardona asks why he felt so much more at ease with himself abroad than in his everyday routine in Abu Dhabi. He suggests identity is a process rather than something fixed, and that new environments bring out traits that were "frozen" inside us. Galinsky's finding anchors that argument: people who live abroad and actively engage with foreign cultures consistently score higher in creative cognition and self-concept clarity.
