Permission to Dream

De: Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas

Narrado por: Chris Gardner

In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents big ideas for turning your “one day” into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life - from the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.

On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives - and ours.

Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: “Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?” After five years, he feels an urgency - what he calls, “Atomic Time” in which every second counts - to find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become president of the United States, he knows it’s time to reclaim his own permission to dream.

Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success. At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true life - even during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous career - from a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it.

His tools include the “new 3 R’s” - or the Rep, the Rap, and the Rolodex - which reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of others - so all can still have access to the American Dream. Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time, it’s never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will be - to go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers.

A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into action - beginning right now.

©2021 Chris Gardner and Mim Eichler-Rivas (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Love the story telling.

It was a good story telling and the way the booked was made out was excellent. Good book and his laugh is cute. I wouldn't say it's the best book ever....it could used a little more ump to it but still good

Inspire Me

This was both entertaining as well as inspirational. I was so engaged in it was like being on the journey with him, the grand daughter and the driver.

A detour

The racial fights of Afro-Americans are sandwiched so much in the "permission to dream" storyline that it made the overall experience a little bit dull because it wasn't an interesting topic for me. Overall I think it had a lot of interesting ideas, concepts, advices and interpretations that can be inspiring for most listeners who are in the path of pursuing their dreams.

Another great one in books!

Chris did an amazing job on the permission to dream. We all at one point stop dreaming and accepted life. No matter how old you are, never stop dreaming!

Awesomeness

Great listen. Amazing read by Chris!!! a very inspiring book that has left me pumped and ready to swing

Prepare To Be Inspired

Great advice for EVERYONE! And funny. If this book doesn’t inspire you to be more, and to do more for others check your pulse and call 911. BRILLIANT!

Thank you, Chris Gardner, for always inspiring us to dream

Absolutely beautiful and incredibly inspiring. Hearing the book read by Chris Gardner himself was truly moving.

Give yourself and others permission to dream!

Heartfelt book and message! Amazing reading Chris! I recommend this book to be in all homes and schools!