Management of Extreme Situations

13Going to Extreme Situations: What Meaning Should be Given to Such a Project?

13.1. Introduction

How can we give meaning to our companies, for example, those that push us to travel, to explore a space near or far through this or that form of expedition or even to leave for extreme adventures? If adventure is a legitimate temptation, its opposite, sedentariness, is no less so. Because habit positions it here in opposition with novelty; it also remains appealing, depending on the circumstances. What then can justify leaving rather than staying? What is the meaning of an expedition? Why should I leave? Toward what and what benefit? Admittedly, the use of the term meaning is plurivocal, hence its ambiguity, due in particular to its mandatory and all-purpose use. Nevertheless, one cannot avoid such use for those who undertake an adventure, because to repeat oneself or even to explain the meaning one attributes to the journey one undertakes, it is already for the traveler or adventurer to ensure that the rationalization that one formulates for oneself or for one’s loved ones will generate perseverance in the pursuit of the said adventure, an essential pledge to achieve the objective set and thus avoid one or other form of renunciation or possible abandonment. Therefore, if we want to answer the initial question asked at the beginning of this book, let us first situate the journey, expedition or adventure as a deliberate activity based on one or other form of project, formulated ...