Travel as transformation : conquer the limits of culture to discover your own identity

A Daring, Intelligent, And Unapologetic Call To Find Yourself Through Wanderlust. When You Travel To A Foreign Place, Do You Experience This New Life As Your Old Self? Or Do You Become A New Version Of You? From Living In A Van On The Streets Of San Diego, To Growing Chocolate With Indigenous Tribes In Central America, To Teaching In The Middle East And Volunteering In Africa, Bestselling Author Gregory V. Diehl Has Followed A Worldly And Unconventional Path Through Life. Leaving His California Home As A Teenager, He Fully Immersed Himself, Living And Working, In 45 Countries Across The Globe-all By Age 28. In Travel As Transformation, He Puts His Diverse Cultural Experiences On Display And Asks The Reader To Question How Their Own Identity Has Been Shaped By The Lifestyle They Live. As You Delve Into Travel As Transformation, You Will Learn Just How Profoundly Travel Can Influence Your Perception Of Yourself. Diehl Teaches Aspiring Travelers, Vagabonds, And Nomads To Let Go Of Their Internal Inhibitions And Former Sense Of Self. To Encourage World Wanderers To Embrace Change, He Shares His Own Stirring Experiences Of Transformation Across Costa Rica, China, Morocco, Armenia, Iraq, Monaco, Ecuador, And More. By Embarking On This Nomadic Journey Alongside Him, You Will Learn To Examine All Of Humanity Through Unbiased Eyes And Discover All That Lies Just Beyond Your Backyard. A New, Vast Cultural Experience Awaits. To Travel With A Truly Open Mind Is To Forget Who You Were When You Started. It Is To Be Constantly Born Anew, And Identify With Ways Of Existence You Did Not Know Were Possible. Travel As Transformation Will Give You The Wisdom, The Inspiration, And The Resources To Conquer The Limitations Placed On You By Your Home Culture. It's Time To Take Advantage Of Everything The World Has To Offer And Become Everything You Can Be. Find Yourself Through Travel As Transformation. 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 with 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. Based on the author's own travel and resulting self-discovery, this book encourages moving beyond the boundaries of comfort to experience new climates, interesting scenery, and different cultures, thereby enabling self-growth and transformation toward a global consciousness