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# Traveling with Your Left Hemisphere
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/traveling-with-your-left-hemisphere/
- Published: 2023-12-09T13:42:24.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-17T20:07:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: The Hemisphere Hypothesis, Briefly, Travel

In [*The Art of Travel*](https://amzn.to/41jBi1N?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), Alain de Botton describes traveling to an island paradise. The first morning, he sat on the beach, coconut trees leaning toward the sea, jungle-covered hills behind him. He then began to think about

> a sore throat I had developed during the flight, worry over not having informed a colleague that I would be away, a pressure across both temples and a rising need to visit the bathroom. A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself apparent: **I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.**

Put another way, he had inadvertently brought his left hemisphere to the island.