The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by Adam Braun

While traveling through a slum in India, Adam came across a beggar child and asked him a question he would ask a child in every country he visited – “If you could have anything in the world, what would you want most?” Despite the life challenges and suffering, the child responded to him without the slightest hesitation: “A pencil”. The encounter ignited a flame in Adam’s heart and propelled him to pursue a noble cause he never thought he would have – to build schools for underprivileged children around the world.

This beautiful written book delves into the extraordinary self-discovery journey of Adam – life being raised in a family with a deeply held belief in the power of nonconformity; his near-death experience while on a cruise with Semester at Sea (SAS); a backpacking trip that led him to stay with a stranger in a Guatemalan village; how he turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world; When he came to a fork in the road, he took the one that is less traveled by.

It is a must read for those who are searching for their true calling and purpose in life. Adam’s motivational words and wisdom will get you off the fence and into action.

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