What Living Abroad for a Decade Taught Me About Productivity
Experiencing life through different cultural lenses has forever changed how I approach work and life.
As I glance at my empty little flat and feel the weight of the cardboard box on my arms, I’m once again reminded of the cyclic nature of life.
I close the door behind me and I don’t look back.
Instead, I remember sitting on a porch with my childhood friend dreaming about our adult life. “Do you think you’ll stay in Portugal?” she asked me.
“No,” I said. “I don’t think I will.”
It all started with “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”
I remember being 5 years old, wearing my pink pajamas and sitting on the living room floor as I watched Miss Price enchant a bedknob and make an ordinary bed fly.
That surreal scene planted a crazy idea on my mind: that I could explore the world.
Many years after watching that movie I’m often reminded of how lucky I’ve been.
I grew up on a small village on the outskirts of Porto, Portugal.
But in the last decade I lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Basel (Switzerland) and Strasbourg (France). I also…
