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Applying the Adventurous Mindset: Room Travel with a French Aristocrat
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Applying the Adventurous Mindset: Room Travel with a French Aristocrat

An 18th-century book teaches us how to apply the lens of adventure to nearly any setting we may find ourselves in—even if confined to a single room.

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Illustration of Journey around my Room (1794) by Xavier de Maistre. Illustration by Tony Johannot. Full text is available at Project Gutenberg.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”

-Marcel Proust

One should never underestimate the power of the human mind to reframe one’s situation. There is perhaps no…

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