He left his life to bike 46,000 miles around the world in 4 years. But, why?

他放弃了自己的生命,在四年内骑自行车环游了46000英里的世界。但是,为什么呢?

Good Life Project

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2016-07-28

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Have you ever thought about leaving everything behind and traveling the world? Of cashing out your savings to hit the road and create lifelong memories and new experiences? This may sound like an impossible dream to most, but our guest today did just that. Alastair Humphreys was poised to accept his dream job when he made the decision to spend the next four years of his life biking 46,000 miles around the world. Alastair lived for four years traveling on just under $10,000 without taking any other jobs or earning any other money. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? That was just the beginning of an incredible life of adventures. Alastair has become a documentary filmmaker, author, speaker, and blogger while continuing to pursue his passion for adventuring. Today, he shares why he continues to go on these adventures and what he gains from them. Alastair’s extraordinary experiences are some that I know many of you may envy and wish to emulate, and he shares the steps you can take to start your incredible journey. In This Episode, You'll Learn: How to live in the “ah” moment.How Alastair went from a bookish kid to an adventurer.The moment that started it all for Alastair.The struggles Alastair faced in his trek.Alastair’s tips for anyone wanting to start their own adventure.The best way to fund an adventure. Mentioned in This Episode: Connect with Alastair: Alastair Humphreys | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram | YouTubeErnest ShackletonInvestment Biker: Around the World with Jim Roger by Jim RogersAdventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip by Jim RogersA Journey Around My Room by Xavier de MaistreMindset Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • So imagine stepping out of your day to day life and just dropping yourself into a gorgeous 130 acre natural playground for three and a half days of learning and laughing and moving your body and calming your brain and reconnecting with people who just see the world the way that you do and accept you completely as you are.

  • So that's what we've created with our camp good life project or camp GLP experience.

  • We've actually brought together a lineup of really inspiring teachers, from art to entrepreneurship, from writing to meditation, pretty much everything in between.

  • It's this beautiful way to fill your noggin with ideas to live and work better, and a really rare opportunity to create the type of friendships and stories you pretty much thought you'd left behind decades ago.

  • It's all happening at the end of August, just about 90 minutes from New York City, and we're well on our way to selling out spots at this point.

  • So be sure to grab your spot as soon as you can.

  • If it's interesting to you, you can learn more@goodlifeproject.com.

  • camp or just go ahead and click the link in the show notes now.

  • If you can possibly summon up the nerve to go by yourself, then I think doing a solo adventure in the world is a really, really important or really useful rite of passage thing to do.

  • I'm certainly very glad I cycle around the world by myself.

  • When Alistair Humphries graduated university, he was offered his dream job as a teacher, which he promptly turned down because he decided that if he didn't do something else now, he'd probably never do it.

  • What was that something else?

  • He got on a bicycle and he spent the next four years of his life riding 46,000 miles around the world.

  • And he did it, the entire thing, on a savings of 7000 pounds, which for those of you in the US is, I don't know, somewhere around ten, $11,000 without working any other jobs, without earning any other money.

  • And that was the beginning of a life of extraordinary adventures.

  • Huge grand ones and also smaller micro ones.

  • He has since become a documentary filmmaker and author speaker and continues to go out on extraordinary adventures and what they are all about, what they give to him, why he continues to do them, is where we go in this week's conversation.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.

  • So really fun to meet you, to catch up with you, to learn about your adventures.

  • And man, it sounds like the last 15 years have been sort of like one crazy long string of the types of adventures that most people dream about.