LAW NO. 6DOING SOMETHING ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER THAN DOING NOTHING
All men’s miseries derive from the inability to sit still in a quiet room alone.
Boyd Matson looks every bit the adventure journalist he is: rugged, sturdy, and built for danger. His National Geographic television series Wild Chronicles and Explorer and weekly column “Unbound” seem to say it all: he was born to be wild, live on the edge, climb every mountain, dance with death, and test every limit imaginable. He’s been scratched, bitten, chased, attacked, pooped on, and even kissed by animals ordinary folks see only in the zoo.
Boyd taught me an extremely valuable, in fact lifesaving, lesson: how to stand still when the hippos charge.* That strategy underscores ...
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