However, with that idiom I quote too much: within the particular is contained the universal What I usually leave unsaid is to make any sense of either - either the particular or the universal, or how they relate - one must have an understanding of each entirely independent from the other.
Which is an esoteric way of saying having a wide variety of diverse experiences (of both places and people) is one of the least specific, easiest to obtain, and most vaguely defined ways for one to become a well rounded person Today we have a dangerous amount of inflexible and rigidly shaped people