Finding the value of success really isn't all that much came to me years ago but finding where it exists hasn't been as fruitful as I have hoped. Francis Tapon has some exceptional views on precisely that in terms what is truly fulfilling.
There's some consideration of whether the value of the pilgrimage is in the pain and suffering along the way, is the difficulty required for the fulfillment. He will consider that at some length as that kills stone dead the idea of a sea cruise or the like in terms of a profound experience. To really bring it home, it has to hurt.
With that in mind, for your consideration:
Note: the 'x' means an independently-organized TED event but we don't know what that means.
Learn more at FrancisTapon.com
In this TEDx Talk, travel author Francis Tapon shares some of his traveling adventures, which include walking across America four times and spending three years visiting all 25 Eastern European countries. He discusses how travel can be a catalyst for transforming your life, giving you insights that are hard or impossible to achieve through other means. He also shares a personal story about his father, who motivated him to keep pursuing his dream of visiting every country in the world.
Speaker's bio: Francis Tapon was born and raised in San Francisco, California and has traveled to over 80 countries. His mom is from Chile and his dad is from France. He co-founded a robotic vision company in Silicon Valley. He consulted at Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2007, he became the first person to do a round trip on the Continental Divide Trail. He's walked across Spain twice. He wrote "Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking Across America." After spending three years in Eastern Europe, he wrote "The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us." He plans to visit all 54 African countries in 2013-2016. He has a degree in Religion from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
For my own consideration, any pilgrimage is difficult as both feets really are busted; I dropped a truck on one of them and a scooter on the other. The truck was not my fault but the scooter was.
For that reason the Camino de Santiago is highly-desirable target and largely because possibly I can. It's nowhere near the most difficult trail as the Appalachian Trail is far harder in distance and in terrain. From the standpoint of fantastic and beautiful challenges, the Appalachian Trail will probably yield as many or more than you will find anywhere else. Nevertheless, there's no chance of doing it so consideration of it serves no purpose.
As to the expectation of living low, that's also something I have done for years and it does reveal important things. Life does go to shit when it gets too easy and some of you know that painfully well.
That doesn't beg for questions on why life is shit but rather what do I do so life is not shit.
There's some consideration of whether the value of the pilgrimage is in the pain and suffering along the way, is the difficulty required for the fulfillment. He will consider that at some length as that kills stone dead the idea of a sea cruise or the like in terms of a profound experience. To really bring it home, it has to hurt.
With that in mind, for your consideration:
Note: the 'x' means an independently-organized TED event but we don't know what that means.
Learn more at FrancisTapon.com
In this TEDx Talk, travel author Francis Tapon shares some of his traveling adventures, which include walking across America four times and spending three years visiting all 25 Eastern European countries. He discusses how travel can be a catalyst for transforming your life, giving you insights that are hard or impossible to achieve through other means. He also shares a personal story about his father, who motivated him to keep pursuing his dream of visiting every country in the world.
Speaker's bio: Francis Tapon was born and raised in San Francisco, California and has traveled to over 80 countries. His mom is from Chile and his dad is from France. He co-founded a robotic vision company in Silicon Valley. He consulted at Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2007, he became the first person to do a round trip on the Continental Divide Trail. He's walked across Spain twice. He wrote "Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking Across America." After spending three years in Eastern Europe, he wrote "The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us." He plans to visit all 54 African countries in 2013-2016. He has a degree in Religion from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
For my own consideration, any pilgrimage is difficult as both feets really are busted; I dropped a truck on one of them and a scooter on the other. The truck was not my fault but the scooter was.
For that reason the Camino de Santiago is highly-desirable target and largely because possibly I can. It's nowhere near the most difficult trail as the Appalachian Trail is far harder in distance and in terrain. From the standpoint of fantastic and beautiful challenges, the Appalachian Trail will probably yield as many or more than you will find anywhere else. Nevertheless, there's no chance of doing it so consideration of it serves no purpose.
As to the expectation of living low, that's also something I have done for years and it does reveal important things. Life does go to shit when it gets too easy and some of you know that painfully well.
That doesn't beg for questions on why life is shit but rather what do I do so life is not shit.
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