Taking a walk
People describing their experiences of taking walk.
Peter Hagen and
Taking a walk
A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for... See more
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
Anyone can organize a walk-n-talk, and walk-n-talks can happen anywhere. We’ve done a couple in Japan, one in Spain, and one in China. We’ve found it most useful to do them where luggage forwarding is possible since it’s much nicer to walk with a simple day-pack than 10kg of gear. This also increases the breadth of folks able to participate. Kevin... See more
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
Very little of the richness of a walk like this can be explicitly planned. You must give yourself up to the walk.
Craig Mod • Walking the Heck out of Thailand
Orders taken, drinks in hand, everyone in place, the topic is then discussed. If a few people begin to drift off-topic be vigilant, pull them back in. It’s not only a single topic but also a single conversation. Everyone listens to everyone. Everyone who wants to speak, speaks. Foster a self-awareness of convo-monopolization.
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
During this Thailand walk, our nightly conversation topics were:
- How do you stay motivated?
- What do you escape or resist?
- What does home mean to you?
- Shocking solutions to public problems.
- Tell us about a failure.
- Frameworks to make big decisions.
- What is your health regime?
- How do you use lists?
- What do you believe that your heroes do
Derek Sivers • walk and talk | Derek Sivers
This is not a place I ever expected to be. True for so much of my life.