If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.
On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first， bypassing the cities. You‘ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote， and then later you’ll welcome the familiar comforts of a city on the way back.
To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up， fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
