TOPICS OF NOTE:
- What Jack has seen while traveling the world for five years
- Bridging the gap between fear and possibility
- The role Jack's mom played in his dream of travel + reflections on their evolved relationship
- How the wisdom of his 19-year-old self looks different at 27
- What he is happy not to have looming over him
- How he finances travel
- The one thing we can do to live more sustainably
- His views on America after traveling abroad
- How to re-evaluate obligations in order to live your dreams
- The awareness of living a conscious life
- Connection with others and the power in hearing their stories
- Ways to get people to talk with you
- A few of his favorite things for travel
- How to scare away a grizzly bear
- How to live bigger
- A surprising outcome from traveling
Then, during AFTER THOUGHTS hear how the heck Colleen met someone who is living such a life of adventure and what she (a self-confessed homebody) shares in common with Jack, a world traveler. And find out what she wants you to do today.
QUOTES OF NOTE:
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SHOW NOTES:
Jack's writing on Mountaineering the World
Jack's website Be Better Bums (soon to be up and running)
"Burning Daylight" by Jack London
"Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"The Tao of Bill Murray" by Gavin Edwards
"The Perennial Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley
"The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman
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