Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventurers

Conclusion

Few activities test us like an adventure does. This uniquely human undertaking has the capacity to distill a life’s worth of challenges into a brief interval of time and impart learning that can inform everything we do. Adventurers actively seek out challenges to test themselves and transcend the trials of everyday life, but in undertaking those adventures they also unconsciously better equip themselves to deal with those very everyday trials. For those adventurers we mentioned at the start of the book, answering Shackleton’s provocative newspaper call in 1913, they would experience the exact challenges they had so boldly signed up for: a hazardous journey with small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, and constant ...