Travel As Transformation, Gregory Diehl
Travel As Transformation, Gregory Diehl
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Travel As Transformation
Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity

Author: Gregory Diehl

Narrator: Gregory Diehl

Unabridged: 3 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2018


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Olivia-Savannah on March 05, 2019

I am so glad that last year I was able to fall in love with non-fiction, because it is a genre I am really learning to appreciate. Travel is something I love – I love exploring different countries and cultures, and seeing what I can learn from other people. So when a non-fiction book about travel wa......more

Goodreads review by Réal on November 17, 2016

TRAVEL AS TRANSFORMATION by Gregory V. Diehl is a complete surprise package – a dark horse in the race. The book relates a fascinating narrative about the road to philosophical and spiritual self-discovery, one which every human being can experience, and really should, because this perspective is no......more

Goodreads review by Cathryn on December 19, 2016

This book is a puzzler for me. Gregory Diehl is clearly an intelligent, thoughtful young man. When he asked me for an honest review, I looked at the topic, first reactions to the book, and sample pages. All pointed to a book that would explore the inner and outer worlds of travel experience. What pu......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 24, 2018

Travel as Transformation is not your typical travel book. It is a journey of self-discovery and finding one’s own identity through experiencing different cultures and situations. The author encourages the reader to immerse himself or herself in new, possibly uncomfortable, places, to help shape one’......more

Goodreads review by Nadja on March 04, 2018

Gregory takes you on his amazing journey and tells you how travelling has helped him find himself. I would say dive into this without knowing much, because you will be surprised how often you can relate or wish you could relate. Now lets be realistic, to me there wasn`t much new information in this b......more