CHAPTER SEVEN
To Strive through Ambiguity
Why go purposely toward discomfort and terror? For what possible reason? The response is difficult at best, but I’m sure a person is an adventurer in direct proportion to the shortness of his or her memory. Somehow we sift out the bad times, remembering only the good ones of friendship, beauty, accomplishment, self-sufficiency, and the successful calculation of risk.
—Ned Gillette, adventurer, photographer, journalist, and author
In order to grow into the skills of an Expeditionary Leader you must be willing to face adversity. Outward Bound itself was born during a time of adversity and as an antidote to complacency. Adversity creates an openness to learning. It is why we leave the comfort of the known ...
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