Find the Story Behind the Story — Always Be Learning

To increase your own creativity dig deeper into products, services, and places you like and find out how things are actually made. Travel to that vineyard in Tuscany where your favorite wine is made and watch the grapes being crushed. The time it right, and they may even let you get in on the act.

Watch your beer being made in a micro brewpub.

Discover what goes into producing your favorite Columbian coffee at the plantation

Consider European delivery of your new German car. You can get a free factory tour and watch your car being made. Then you get to drive your new vehicle on the Autobahn with no speed limits for a couple of weeks before they ship it back home for you. Unless you stay a few weeks, you won’t save much on the rental car fees versus the shipping costs, but you’ll enjoy a great experience!

Watch a sculpture or artist at work as many frequently do open houses.

Take a guided tour of Pompeii and discover how amazingly advanced Roman life was in AD 79.

Airbnb offers lots of experiences with locals, from cooking to basket weaving, cigar making to fashion photography, and everything in between. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found a strong link between creativity and travelers’…