This author has also started a interesting project and website - called Project DREAM! (very Tom Peter's like name!).
DREAM! is a global project created to inspire and motivate people to examine their passions, identify their dreams, and journey toward the realization of those dreams. The DREAM! team will be travelling around the world to collect inspirational stories and photographs of real people, from different backgrounds, who are in various stages of pursuing their dreams.
Stories stimulate the senses, inspire us to action and broaden our multicultural perspectives. Storytelling is a great skill for any marketer. See Backpack Nation for all 20 - and vote for your favorites - or reference my original post for additional context. (The numbering was off, we're actually on Day 10.)
Thomas' Dream by Jody Delichte
Before my trip to Tanzania I had never been to Africa. Everything I knew about the continent was based on what I had seen on the nature channel and in the news, or read in magazines. To me it was a distant place whose challenges and struggles seemed so far away from my daily life.
But that immediately changed as soon as my boyfriend and I stepped off the plane. I was no longer viewing Africa from a distance… its sights, sounds, and smells encircled me. I was overwhelmed by it all and could only step back, watch, and try to take it all in. I watched men bicycling along the side of dirt roads riddled with potholes. They balanced so many crates of eggs on the back of their old style bicycles that I thought any hint of a wind would certainly tip them over. I watched women dressed in bright colored garments balance fruit, groceries, water, and other large uneven packages on their heads as they walked down the road. And I watched young children playing in the thick red dirt outside their small run down homes. As I gazed out into this foreign world I could not help but wonder what these people dream about and how their dreams differ from my own and those of people I know in Europe and North America.
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