Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-08-06
Books mentioned on The Man Who Walked Across Antarctica - Colin O'Brady - #509
Colin O'Brady is a 10-time world record breaking explorer and one of the world's best endurance athletes. The things we believe can act like a glass ceiling.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endurance
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition, detailing the crew's remarkable survival against insurmountable odds.
Recommended“you know if you're reading Alfred lansing's book which is my favorite description of the the Shackleton Crossing you know you read that and it's such an intense story learning about how they were first they had to kill the dogs and then they're having to look for seals and then they leave some of the men behind and they”
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Will to Power
Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche is a collection of notes and fragments assembled from the philosopher's literary estate after his passing.
Discussed“and it's in the will to power and he says to those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering desolation sickness ill treatment indignities I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt the torture of self-mistrust the wretchedness of the vanquished I have no pity for them because I wish them the”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Impossible First
“and in my first book The Impossible first there's a chapter it's called Frozen tears”
Own book The 12-Hour Walk
“and so in my mind I'm like okay 10 hours I'll make it to 10 hours he's going to stop before then there's no way he's going that long I don't know how long his days are with this eight hours goes by he's still right next to me nine hours goes by he's still right next to me 10”