#120: Microadventures With Alastair Humphreys

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Alastair Humphreys is a real-life adventurer. He's biked around the world and has even been named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. But Alastair wanted to show people that you didn't need to travel halfway across the world or spend a lot of money or time to find adventure. So for a year, he did what he called "Microadventures" in his native England. They're small things he could do in an evening after work or on a weekend. He cataloged all of his adventures in a book called "Microadventures" and today on the podcast Alastair and I discuss how the average Joe can find more adventure in his life by going on microadventures.

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0:00.0	For Advocate here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.5	Do you feel like your life needs a little more excitement, a little more adventure?
0:22.7	There's a lot of guys who say that.
0:24.6	They want to go on adventures, but they always give excuses like, I don't have the money,
0:28.4	I don't have the time because you need a lot of money and a lot of time if you want to do some great adventure
0:32.5	in the grand tea tons or your simmity or go float a river in South America.
0:37.9	Well our guest today says you don't need a lot of money, you don't need a lot of time,
0:41.7	you don't even have to travel very far to go on an adventure.
0:45.1	In fact you can find adventure in your own backyard.
0:48.9	His name is Alistair Humphries, he was named National Geographic Adventure of the Year,
0:53.1	so he's done some really big adventures.
0:55.6	While back going, he said to go on these little what he calls microadventures,
0:59.0	things you can do in a day on a weekend or even right after work and before you go to work the next morning,
1:05.7	you can find adventure in your own backyard.
1:08.6	Any cataloged all his microadventures in a book called Microadventures, well things.
1:13.8	And I got him on the podcast today because his book inspired my family to take on microadventures and find things.
1:20.5	For the past two months, each week we've been doing some sort of microadventure and it's been things like
1:25.9	sleeping out in our own backyard underneath the stars.
1:29.4	We went floating, we bought a raft on Amazon, it was like you know not that expensive and then
1:33.8	floated to a river here in Oklahoma.
1:35.9	And I wanted to share this with you all because I think it's something that can benefit a lot of people
1:40.3	because it's really changed our life.
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