Exploration is about accepting uncertainty and risk.

By doing that on a regular basis, we end up doing difficult things and feeling like our pursuits have meaning.

Listen to that inner voice, telling you to try something, and be willing to take risks in pursuit of something because you never know what you might find.

When you think about it, the story of humanity is really a story of exploration. It's a trait unique to our species that compels us to reach higher and go further and boldly go where no man

has gone before, to quote Star Trek. From early migration to space travel, and even engineering new forms of intelligence,

our inclination towards exploration is undeniable.

But what is this inclination all about? Why do we have it? Where does it come from?

And how can we enrich our lives by cultivating it?

These are questions Alex Hutchinson just couldn't shake.

So this former elite track and field athlete

and Cambridge trained physicist turned journalist

and New York Times best-selling author of Endure,

which I might add is perhaps the best book

ever written on the science of endurance.

This is a guy who sought about finding answers.

If all else is equal, we want to try something new and something different.

We want to pursue the unknown.

Exploration isn't just something that evolved from a freak genetic mutation 50,000 years ago.

It's something that is a precondition of life.

No one gets to Easter Island because they were a little hungry.

You have to be deliberately exploring to get there.

He's here today to report not only his surprising discoveries,

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