Limitless

Have you ever drawn a map of your hometown?

And no, I don’t mean a map that is geographically accurate and to scale. I mean your perception of it.

Yesterday my professor had my class draw a map of Madrid. My map showed where I live and the surrounding area, where I went to school, the soccer stadium, my gym and the neighborhood around my gym. It also had where I interned and the nearby river where I would have lunch with my coworkers. It had Sol, which is Madrid’s Times Square, and two other neighborhoods I spent a lot of time in: Chueca and Malasaña.

This map basically reflected where I spent most of my time and where I neglected to explore. This exercise also allowed me to see what their Madrid was like.

I’m going to bring this back to when I did the Urban Design in London program hosted by my school. During this three-week program I was never in a classroom. Instead my professor took us everywhere and told us stories about everything.

While I was in London the goal was to see as much of the city as possible. My homework was to live; Go to events. See sights. Go out with friends. Experience London to the upmost capacity because that is how you can ever hope to know it. That is how you ever hope to know any city and its people.

Now, I share this because it’s interesting to see how restricted you get by your comfort zone and routines. It limits you. Be limitless. Challenge your barriers because that’s how you learn.

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