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🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Ever feel like you are stranded on a desert island with no idea how to get off of it? Listen in as I read an excerpt from "Marooned" by Robert Kraske. My take home message to you is to stay true to your dreams, desires, and goals. Most give up. Don't be like most people. Figure that out and you will be rewarded.
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0:00.0 | I wanted to leave you guys with one thought. |
0:03.4 | All right, this book that I just read is a really great book. |
0:06.9 | It's called Marooned. |
0:08.2 | All right, it's called Marooned. |
0:10.2 | And it's, have you guys ever heard of Robinson Crusoe? |
0:14.2 | Robinson Crusoe? |
0:15.2 | Okay, so it's an old story or it's a fiction about this guy who was stranded on the island. |
0:22.6 | But this book is about the real Robertson Crusoe and his name's Alexander Selkirk. |
0:27.6 | And he's a Scottish mariner, like, you know, those guys who go on ships and go catch things or whatever else they do. |
0:38.1 | This is like in the 1700s, and he was marooned, which means on his ship, |
0:45.7 | if you give the captain some lip, many times they'll drop you off on an island and they'll |
0:50.7 | leave you there. |
0:51.9 | And they'll give you a pistol with one bullet, and they'll basically give you the option to either kill yourself or try to figure it out on the island and they'll leave you there. And they'll give you a pistol with one bullet. |
0:54.8 | And they'll basically give you the option |
0:56.2 | to either kill yourself or try to figure it out on the island, |
0:58.8 | but you're not gonna be on the ship with us, right? |
1:01.2 | And so anyway, he gave his captain some lip |
1:03.8 | and his captain left him on this South Pacific island, right? |
1:07.7 | And he thought that his captain was gonna come back, but he didn't and so selkirk ended up |
1:13.5 | being stranded on this island for four whole years four whole years right and so in the beginning he |
1:19.6 | was very stressed out and he thought about committing suicide and he talked about in this book |
1:24.5 | and he had but he set up a nice little spot |
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