Kill Your Goals, Enjoy the Journey — 🚶♂️Flaneurs vs Tourists🛩️
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Let’s start with some basic definitions.
The Flaneur 🚶♀️
From french meaning: wanderer, stroller.
Also means “to walk without a clear end in sight”. Or to walk in order to think/organize ideas.
Ever heard of the power walk when you have lots of problems in your mind, so you solve them during a light stroll with no destination in mind? If not you gotta try it.
The Tourist 🛩️
Someone with a clear end in sight.
Tourists spend their days and nights planning to have fun in a specific location for a specific length of time in a very controllable environment that is thought to maximize fun/time.
In other words, a very boring person.
The key difference between tourists and flaneurs is how one deals with…