I remember the moment when it dawned on me. I was sitting in a module called human performance in the final year of my psychology degree. The dawning moment was a realisation that some of the psychological knowledge being absorbing, was putting words on areas I had a deep lived experience of. Terms such as…
When I return from an adventure trip or expedition, I often find I want a period of “decompression” to enable me integrate back into my day to day life. After being away for over 2 months on the North West Passage, this period of decompression lasted a few weeks. Last year after climbing Mont Blanc,…
We were over 1,200 miles offshore and in trouble. The goal was to row our boat across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean island of Antigua but we were being pushed south by mother nature and were utterly helpless to her power. At this rate, we feared we would not only miss Antigua but potentially…
A few years ago, a good friend of mine Mark McCartney started a really interesting project called “What is a good life?”. Over the course of 3 months, Mark interviewed over 100 people from all walks of life around this one question. I was one of the people Mark chatted with and I remember having…