Microadventuring with Alastair Humphreys

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Alastair Humphreys is an author and adventurer who has walked 600 miles across Southern India, ran an ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert, and hiked and rafted across Iceland. Alastair's newest wild idea is to embrace the concept of "microadventures," an adventure that is short, easily accessible, and affordable while still being fun, challenging, refreshing, and rewarding.

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0:00.0	Wild ideas can be as big as skiing across the Arctic, biking from Alaska to Patagonia,
0:09.2	or kayaking around every continent.
0:11.9	But they can also be little adventures that fit into our day-to-day life.
0:16.8	It's very easy to think, oh I can't have adventures because of my 9-5. So what I started to do was to say well what about your 5 to 9 when you finish work
0:26.7	what are you going to do until 9 o'clock the next morning why not when you finish work
0:31.3	instead of going home for the evening and, I don't know,
0:35.2	sitting on the sofa and watching Netflix or something, why not head out of town and go step
0:40.0	away from the world just for one evening, turn off the phone, sleep under the stars and then get back
0:45.2	to your desk for nine o'clock the next morning.
0:49.4	Author and adventurer Alistair Humphreys calls these experiences micro adventures.
0:55.2	And even though they're smaller, they can definitely be pretty wild.
0:59.2	I think this concept is genius.
1:01.6	It's easy to get stuck in our habits, fitting in a walk or a run between
1:06.0	meetings or after logging off for the day. But going on micro adventures allows us to
1:11.5	infuse our lives with spontaneity and discovery.
1:15.1	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production brought to you
1:22.2	by Capital One.
1:25.0	Before Alistair embraced the concept of micro adventuring,
1:28.5	he went after some of the wildest ideas I've ever heard of.
1:32.1	He walked 600 miles across southern India, ran an
1:35.6	ultra-marathon through the Sahara Desert, and hiked and rafted across Iceland.
1:40.8	Alistair became fascinated by the way wild ideas fulfilled him and expanded his perspective.
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