Travel As Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity
Written by Gregory Diehl
Narrated by Gregory Diehl
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About this audiobook
When you travel to a foreign land, do you experience this new place as your old self? Or do you become a new version of you?
From living in a van in San Diego to growing chocolate with indigenous tribes in Central America, to teaching in the Middle East and volunteering in Africa, Gregory V. Diehl has spent his entire adult life discovering the world and himself. Leaving his California home shortly after his 18th birthday, he went on to live and work in 45 countries across the globe by age 28.
By recounting the existential lessons from his journey, Diehl challenges the reader to question how their identity has been shaped by the culture and lifestyle they know. He argues, compellingly, that travel can transform your perception of yourself along with the world. By losing your comfortable sense of self, you learn to examine your life through the structure of everything it can become.
To travel solo a truly open mind is to forget who you were when you started. It is to be constantly born anew, to discover your strengths and find your path in life. Travel As Transformation will give you the wisdom, the inspiration, and the resources to conquer the limitations placed by your arbitrary past. Whether traveler or non-traveler, its lessons about approaching the uncomfortable and unfamiliar apply to everyone.
Gregory Diehl
Gregory Diehl is the author of multiple Amazon best-selling books on identity development for businesses and individuals. He is also the founder of Identity Publications, an organization that produces and publishes meaningful books containing ideas that matter. Diehl travels to more than 50 countries, enjoys homesteading the valley of Ecuador, and kidnaps felines from streets around the world. Listen to his podcast, Uncomfortable Conversations With Gregory, or email him at contact@gregorydiehl.net.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a change coach, I'm so gratified to hear someone else who understands and encourages change as a vehicle for personal and evolutionary growth. Gregory is incredibly thoughtful and inspiring as an author, and I'm incredibly grateful to have stumbled upon this book.