Alastair Humphreys - Fear is an adventure

We chatted to Alastair at the British Library. He talked to us about:

His natural personality of nervousness, stress and hate of late Coaxing himself to become more curious, more spontaneous, more relaxed and more adventurous  Differentiate between the things where you have control and those you don't i.e. don't get frustrated with the waves because you can't change themConfidence is built from doing things and the trick is to keep the momentum goingThe impact of his adventures on his life - and becoming more of the person he wants to beLearning to focus on what matters in lifeThe power of laughter when things aren't going so wellCycling 46k miles around the world which took him 4 years, through 60 countries and 5 continents - all on a total budget of £7kCycling around the world when you begin to understand how little of the world you've seen Walked across India and IcelandUltramarathons and expeditions across oceans, deserts, the Arctic and GreenlandOn wanting to become a tough guy like Ranulph FiennesSummoning up the guts to take on an adventure when normal guys like him don't do adventures - they live normal livesThe moment he committed to his first adventure - when he wrote a letter to Mr Walker saying thanks but no thanks to the offer of a job as a Science TeacherThe power of writing a letter to tip his head full of daydreams and insecurities into action Why cycling is the perfect way to travelWanting to break free from ordinary and do something extraordinary and difficult for the first time in my lifeThe chip on his shoulder at being so ordinary and averageHis habit of getting his school work done immediately and then relaxing His spur of the moment decision to join the Territorial Army and why he enjoyed the experienceUnderestimating the horribleness of the adventure and craving a normal lifeThe uselessness of using the finish line as motivation because it's so far away   When during the 3rd year of 4, he finally started to enjoy his tripSolitude and Loneliness being two sides of the same coin   When he came back, noticing that his values hadn't changed but his focus had - he was far more aware who he was and what mattered to himThe two years he spent talking in schools about his adventures  Ditching his planned South Pole trip with a mate in favour of time with his son The routine of the school runLearning to make a living from adventure writingBecoming a brandSwitching from a few big adventures to many small adventuresBeing motivated by the opportunity to become self-aware and not the finish lineUnderstanding that the reasons he started his adventures were no longer relevant and he needed to find a different way How he used the violin to bring fear and excitement back into his lifeWhy travel doesn't have a monopoly on adventure  The benefits of becoming more childlike in his approachNot coping with the routine of being a fatherDesigning short meaningful adventures for othersLearning the violin for seven months (and still being rubbish)Walking 500 miles for one month through Spain with his violin, no money and no credit cardHis No.1 rule of spending the money earned each day from busking (120 Euro's in one month) - he spent it all so he'd be back to no money and a state of fearLooking for the opportunities to have micro-adventures in natureScheduling a tree climb once a month into his Google CalendarLearning that it's more important to have a lifetime of small little adventures than it is to do a few big adventuresThe ongoing wrestling match he has with himself    

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