Chapter 6
Think Big
A few months ago, my wife and I took our teenage daughters to Iceland. It was an incredible place, like an outdoor museum of geology, meteorology, and mythology with mountains, waterfalls, and extreme weather.
One day, we were driving along the southern coast to a well-known glacial waterfall, Skógafoss. It was easy to see as we approached—it’s one of the largest waterfalls in Iceland, standing 200 feet high and 82 feet across with glacier fields in the distance behind it. We parked, and along with hundreds of other tourists, began walking closer.
The scene was truly magnificent. And yet, we knew the view was even better from the top. Most of the visitors just observe from the bottom of the waterfall, but there’s a footpath ...
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