Jeffrey A. Kottler
"Travel offers you more opportunities to change your life than almost any other human endeavor," writes Dr. Kottler. The goal of his book is to help you create the kind of trip that will help you take the greatest advantage of your journey.
Travel That Can Change Your Life helps the reader define what kind of traveler they are, then asks questions that help define the kind of trip that would best suit each person's needs and desires, such as "What is it that you would like to have happen as result of you trip?" and "In what specific ways would you like to be a different person from the one who left?" If travel as transformation is on your itinerary, this is an excellent place to begin charting your course.
1 Absolute junk
This book is trivial in the extreme. Dr. Kottler takes the possibility of transformative travel (as explicated, for example, in Cousineau's Art of Pilgrimage or Sarah York's Pilgrim Heart) and makes it into self indulgence. Don't waste your money or your time.
2 This book is psycho-babble junk
I have been reading several books on meaningful travel and pilgrimage, most of which have had worthwhile, useful material. But this book is a tremendous disappointment. Kottler's idea of an example of transforming travel is a woman on a business trip blocking out some self-indulgent feel-good time so she can can "feel less guilty (about neglecting her children) because I am pursuing a career so ambitiously". Hey, any man or woman who thinks selling potato chips or filing legal briefs is more important that their children SHOULD feel guilty. And Kottler is so ignorant it's hard to believe he has a high school diploma, much less a Ph.D. For example, he tells a boring, pointless story about a terrible experience during a 14-hour drive in the Philippines. Then Kottler says he and his wife recover from the ordeal by traveling to Hong Kong and, "crossing the international dateline" they are able to spend the same day more pleasantly. Dr. Kottler, check your map: the international date line DOES NOT RUN between Manila and Hong Kong, and when you cross it traveling from east to west you arrive in the NEXT day not the prior one. Don't waste your money on this one. Maybe I should have been more sceptical of a book about creating transformative travel experience written by somebody who lives in Las Vegas!
3 This book is psycho-babble junk
I have been reading several books on meaningful travel and pilgrimage, most of which have had worthwhile, useful material. But this book is a tremendous disappointment. Kottler's idea of an example of transforming travel is a woman on a business trip blocking out some self-indulgent feel-good time so she can can "feel less guilty (about neglecting her children) because I am pursuing a career so ambitiously". Hey, any man or woman who thinks selling potato chips or filing legal briefs is more important that their children SHOULD feel guilty. And Kottler is so ignorant it's hard to believe he has a high school diploma, much less a Ph.D. For example, he tells a boring, pointless story about a terrible experience during a 14-hour drive in the Philippines. Then Kottler says he and his wife recover from the ordeal by traveling to Hong Kong and, "crossing the international dateline" they are able to spend the same day more pleasantly. Dr. Kottler, check your map: the international date line DOES NOT RUN between Manila and Hong Kong, and when you cross it traveling from east to west you arrive in the NEXT day not the prior one. Don't waste your money on this one. Maybe I should have been more sceptical of a book about creating transformative travel experience written by somebody who lives in Las Vegas!
4 A dynamic journey for everyone!
Drawing on his long and thoughtful experience as a clinician, supervisor and teacher,Jeffrey Kottler has produced a helpful down-to-earth, and easily readable book of guidance for those who want more out of life through the adventure of travel. In this book, we find that psychoanalytic work emerges in its true light when we explore new areas and cultures as an individualized and collarborative search for routes toward a self-fulling life.
5 Best Resource for the Travel Adventurer
This book serves as an excellent resource for anyone looking for the travel experience of a lifetime. Now, you can have the travel experience of a lifetime by travelling to India with Dr. Kottler.
6 insightful
All the way through the book I found myself thinking that these words applied to my big journey - my life. Kottler illustrates his points with some great vignettes.
