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Farther by Ship: The Blue-Ocean Life of 11 Voyages

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Blue Ocean / Hero's Journey / Sea Years / Ed Reif You Get There Faster by Plane, but Farther by Ship A life at sea, reframed as mini-retirements, probability, blue-ocean thinking, and the long game of becoming. Instagram 01 Alan Watts Dream Signal I am Alan Watts and so can you. "I wonder I wonder if you had the power to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. You would I suppose start out by fulfilling all your wishes- love affairs, banquets, wonderful journeys, music beyond belief...and after you've done that for sometime, you'd forget that you were dreaming.". View on Instagram Opening Signal There Is No YES in Yesterday There is no YES in yesterday and the longest day of the weak is someday. The secret of living your dream instead of your backup plan is starting. I have had all the disadvantages required for a successful start on the ...

Lake Tahoe-50 Shades Of Blue

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See Image Show Text Lake Tahoe / Deja Blue / Visual Memory 50 Shades of Blue Some places are remembered by what happened there. Tahoe is remembered first by a color that seemed too clear to be ordinary. The First Impression When Color Becomes Memory The original field note begins with astonishment: altitude, clarity, state lines, cold water, fish, and the conviction that the lake deserved a return. But the detail that survives most vividly is blue. That matters because memory rarely preserves a place evenly. It keeps a signal: a color, a smell, a temperature, a horizon, a person, a sentence. Tahoe's signal is blue. Years later, Fair Isle would turn the same color into something more complicated—sea and sky changing hourly, weather erasing boundaries, distance becoming visible, and blue becoming less a postcard color than a measure of attention. We do not remember every detail of a place. ...

PMC Private Military Contractor

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PMC · Private Military Contractor The Hero's Journey · From Classroom to Doctrine Executive Mercenary Teaching Aviation English Didn’t Solve My Travel Problem. It Subsidized It. Before the war chapter became doctrine, the route ran through Hawaii, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, aviation culture, desert classrooms, and eventually Afghan firebases. What began as a way to keep moving became a professional operating system for helping people perform when the stakes rose. Watch Featured Story Open Companion Stories Enter the War Chapter See Video 01 Ordinary World 02 The Call 03 Threshold 04 Trials 05 Ordeal 06 The Elixir 01 Ordinary World · Teacher The Classroom Was the First Operating Environment ...

The Next Bearing

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See Video See YouTube Video We Hiked The Most Dangerous Mountaintops with NATO Forces Living an Asymmetrical Life · The Road of Trials One Port at a Time Direction Over Speed From cruise ships to cruise missiles, from routine and drill to moments of terror: a field report on perseverance, decisions under uncertainty, and the discipline of staying pointed toward the right horizon. Enter the Story Read Beyond the Wire Expedition Decision Science War-Zone Clarity Time Wealth The Long Game Click to enlarge ED Audio Briefing Speed Is Financing Your Failure Listen · Reflect · Enter Your ...

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