Alastair Humphreys: How to Live an Adventurous Life Regardless of Age, Income, or Location

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of Unmistakable Creative, where we're joined by Alastair Humphreys, a British adventurer, author, and member of National Geographic's Adventurers of the year for 2012. Humphreys left his home in Yorkshire in August 2001 on his bicycle and returned four years later after cycling 46,000 miles across the world. His adventures have taken him through over 80 countries by bicycle, boat, and on foot.

In this episode, Humphreys shares his experiences from his global adventures, from playing the violin on the streets of Spain to rowing across the Atlantic, pulling a cart through the desert, and walking through India. He discusses how living an adventurous life is a possibility for everyone, regardless of age, income, or location.

Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in adventure and personal development. Gain insights that could transform your life and career, and understand how to live adventurously every day.

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0:19.9	What adventure has done for me is it's helped me build my life around three things which are a degree of scaring yourself like taking on Mavericks or challenging yourself to do something that scares you and is difficult and then when you overcome it you get that thrill but you also get the self-confidence and the
0:25.5	momentum to try the next thing and then the other two aspects are curiosity and enthusiasm. And I think if you can get a circle going of enthusiasm leads to
0:31.4	curiosity, leads to scaring yourself, leads to more
0:34.2	enthusiasm, leads to more curiosity. I think that little those three things
0:38.1	looping around to help fight off the temptation to just settle down into a rut.
0:43.4	And what curiosity has really shown me
0:47.2	is that the word adventure can apply differently
0:52.1	to different people and it's very much evolved in my life from being trying to be big tough macho testosterone to just trying to do things that are scaring myself maybe cerebrally rather than just, ah, if I don't do this thing now I'm going to die.
1:08.0	So curiosity and to use us in scaring herself a bit on repeat.
1:15.0	I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative
1:20.5	podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the
1:23.7	most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving
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