One of my biggest eureka-moments I had when I moved to the states from Denmark — wasn't what I learned about the US — but what I learned about Denmark.
I suddenly saw things about my own culture clearly when I wasn't surrounded by confirmation bias of specific ways of looking at things.
One of the most eye-opening experiences for me; If you wan't to understand something you need to understand it through things that are related to it not the things themselves. I have applied this to many other things in live (want to understand design, read about the things that are related to design instead of design itself.
I suddenly saw things about my own culture clearly when I wasn't surrounded by confirmation bias of specific ways of looking at things.
One of the most eye-opening experiences for me; If you wan't to understand something you need to understand it through things that are related to it not the things themselves. I have applied this to many other things in live (want to understand design, read about the things that are related to design instead of design itself.