Gudykunst (1995) also incorporates Langer’s (1989) concept of mindfulness to improve the AUM theory by highlighting that due to the anxiety and uncertainty that strangers face in communicating with the host, they tend to be overly cautious and more attuned to their feelings. Langer (1989) contends that being mindful allows us to be more open to new information and making more distinctions about stranger’s differences and adding more subcategories rather than making general assumptions to our present mindset. Langer (1997) states that there are five ways in which a person can be mindful. These include: openness to novelty, alertness to distinctions, and sensitivity to different contexts of messages, being implicitly and explicitly aware of multiple perspectives, and orientation in the present. Being mindful is making an effort to ensure that the other party share similar meaning about the messages that are being transmitted during interactions. As such, by being more circumspect about cultural differences around them, we propose that by being culturally intelligent, the expatriates would better manage their anxiety and uncertainty, consequently leading to better adjustment and improved job performance.