How Traveling Affects Your Brain

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One of three brothers leading Lahlouh, Inc., Fadi Lahlouh oversees estimating, budgeting, business development, and company growth at the California-based printing business. Outside of work, Fadi Lahlouh enjoys exploring the world, and is an avid traveler.

Many people have a desire to travel, yet they don’t do it due to financial constraints. However, exploring the world is hugely beneficial to your mental health. In fact, traveling is a great way of helping you escape from the everyday stresses of your regular life. It offers you novel experiences and gives you a new environment full of new experiences. This disconnect from daily life lets your brain reset from the norm and reduces the amount of stress it feels. As a result, you feel happier during and after your vacation.

It has also been shown that this boost in mood can even occur before a trip. Anticipating an upcoming vacation leaves you feeling more positive about your economic situation, health, and quality of life. This means traveling makes you happier before, during, and after your actual trip.

In addition to boosting your mood, traveling has profound effects on your personality and creativity levels. Creativity is affected by how your brain is wired. Exposing yourself to new experiences and environments alters brain wiring, thus enabling you to think differently and boosting your creativity in other aspects of life. Meanwhile, traveling pushes you outside of your comfort zone, particularly if you are traveling to a foreign country. To handle this, your brain adds new dimensions to your personality.

Technology Trends Influencing the Packaging Industry

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Owner of Lahlouh, Inc., Fadi Lahlouh has been in the printing and packaging industry for more than 38 years. In the last 14 years, Fadi Lahlouh has been the company’s president, overseeing the many tasks associated with preparing a product for market. The packaging industry has evolved tremendously over the last four decades, with current trends moving the industry toward technological efficiency and greater sustainability.

Packaging’s import to business relates to getting the product to resonate with the consumer. Commonly a part of branding, the colors, logos, and other graphics create the picture than connects with the consumer. Moreover, this packaging (and the branding associated with it) begins the relationship between the company and the consumer.

The trends currently influencing packaging emphasize technology and sustainability. Robotics and smart packaging technologies make the process of designing packages more efficient and more secure as the product moves through the supply chain. Moreover, 3D-printing provides businesses with the tools to print realistic prototypes quickly (for testing). Finally, manufacturers are using newly engineered plant-based fibers that become reconstituted packaging material, for example, those made from microfibrillated cellulose.