When I was young, my dream was to be Indiana Jones. Not exactly a practical ambition, but for a kid transfixed by the quest for the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the crazy face-melting in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Dr. Jones’ retrieval of the Sankara Stones in Temple of Doom, it was a life goal.
As a basketball player, Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward had a dream that some would have called similarly impractical when he was younger–to take his place among the game’s elite in representing his country at the Olympic Games.