146: A Life of Adventure | Laval St. Germain
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
I want you to take a serious, truthful look at your life. When is the last time you went on an adventure? I'm not talking about a date with your wife, or trying a new restaurant, or you happened to take a new way to work. I'm talking about a real adventure that scared you, pushed you, and made you feel alive?
Today I'm joined by adventure enthusiast, Laval St. Germain to talk about why it's critical we "step out, and shove off." Today we cover establishing new perspectives for life challenges, why most men are content with living vicariously through others, the danger of cognitive distortions, and how to live a life of adventure.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
- What calls a man to adventure
- Overcoming excuses
- Eliminating discomfort
- Weight risk vs. reward
- Creating a new perspective for life's challenges
- Why we have a desire to prove ourselves
- The concept of practicing misfortune
- Mental preparation
- The danger of cognitive distortions
- Rising to the level of our training
- Finding experts
- Why living vicariously through others is never enough
- Avoiding comparison
- What exactly is delayed activation
LAVAL ST. GERMAIN
Today, I'm joined by adventurer and explorer extraordinaire, Laval St. Germain.
This man is so qualified to talk with us about living a life of adventure.
His resume includes being the only Canadian to climb Everest without supplemental oxygen, climbing an skiing Iraq's highest peak, the fastest ever crossing North Atlantic solo row, climbing the highest peaks on 6 of the 7 continents among other amazing accomplishments.
He spent 53 days rowing across the Atlantic, and lost three fingers to frostbite. He's a mountaineer, an endurance athlete, and a pilot.
What more can I say about this guy? He's incredible and inspiring. I know you'll walk away inspired to live your own life of adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to take a serious, truthful look at your life. |
| 0:02.9 | When is the last time that you went on an adventure? |
| 0:05.5 | And I'm not talking about a date with your wife or trying a new restaurant or you happen |
| 0:09.6 | to take a new way to work. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm talking about a real adventure, one that scared you, one that pushed you, and frankly, |
| 0:15.3 | one that made you feel alive. |
| 0:16.8 | Today I'm joined by a adventure enthusiast, Laval Saint-Germain, to talk about why it's |
| 0:20.5 | critical we, as he would say, step out and shove off. |
| 0:24.4 | Today we cover establishing new perspectives for life's challenges. |
| 0:28.2 | Why most men are content with living vicariously through others, the danger of cognitive distortions |
| 0:33.8 | and how to live a life of adventure. |
| 0:36.2 | You're a man of action. |
| 0:37.6 | You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly charge your own path. |
| 0:42.0 | When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. |
| 0:46.0 | You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. |
| 0:51.6 | This is your life, this is who you are, this is who you will become. |
| 0:55.5 | At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. |
| 1:01.0 | Men, what is going on today? |
| 1:02.2 | My name is Ryan Mickler, and I am the host and the founder of this podcast, The Order of Man. |
| 1:06.8 | First podcast of 2018, I am stoked that you've decided to join with us today. |
| 1:11.8 | I really can't think of a better way to start the near-year off than tuning into this show. |
| 1:16.0 | And then of course, this is important, implementing. |
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