Here is an interesting take on exploration. Most people (myself included), organise their lives to maximise certainty and predictability. Exploration inverts this relationship, teaching you to navigate and leverage uncertainty.
Instead of being stuck in a fixed reality, explorers co-create reality.
Think about it. Reality is what you know to be true. It is your here and now. Exploration takes you out of your comfort zone, extends your reality.
You shift from certainty to productive uncertainty.
Reality is malleable.
Explorers have experienced firsthand that reality isn’t something that happens to them but a creative process they participate in.