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Shackleton was looking for those with something more. He was looking for a crew that belonged on such an expedition. His actual ad ran like this: “Men wanted for Hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
THROUGHOUT HIS extraordinary career Louis Agassiz was a man of large plans and boundless energy, a spirit emboldened by noble…
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David McCullough • Brave Companions
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To struggle like a spavined mule yet advance only a mile or two a day was “rather discouraging,” De Long admitted. But he seemed to rise to the suffering—to thrive on it. His capacity for pain, his disdain for any kind of languor, his steel-cut work ethic—where did it come from? It was a masochism that was nevertheless warmed by sanguinity. He was
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Trilobite had an amazing team of carefully selected volunteer subjects to undergo the trips. We called them ‘Explorers’
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader
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refrigerated heart of a ruthless, glacial predator.
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Yvon Chouinard • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
In an odd, paradoxical way he became obsessed with an apocalyptic world of ice, the entire globe frozen in death—he who had given himself so wholeheartedly to the study of life, he who was such an exuberant life force. It remained only to find the familiar traces in the Southern Hemisphere as well. So while Darwin, gray, stooped, two years younger
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