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Bernard Moitessier sailed around the world single-handed to win the first Golden Globe Race but when the reward was within his grasp he turned away from it and kept sailing for another three months because to keep on the original route (Plymouth to Plymouth) was like “leaving from nowhere to go nowhere.” [The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier]

Winning this race had no connection with Moitessier’s true goal which was to “reach a point in space and consciousness that would enable him to bear witness to the beauty and complexity of the natural world. And to glimpse, however briefly, the sort of person he might become if he permitted himself to cross a kind of international dateline of the soul and merge with those things.”

In the end he realized what many of us come to know in time: the journey itself was the destination.

Story Prompt: What if the intention of an endeavor is to forge a connection inside yourself? What if the reward to the endeavor lays not in the result to which you were ostensibly striving but in the simple doing of the thing? Write that story and share it out loud!

Attribution: Inspired by and adapted from The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko ---> You will be hooked by the stories about this once upon a time Colorado River!

Click HERE to access Simon and Schuster’s Publishers page to watch a mesmerizing short video and listen to Kevin Fedarko read the opening pages of his book, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon.

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