Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.
Interpretation
Adventure encourages ordinary people to step out of their comfort zones and embrace extraordinary experiences.
Warren Miller's quote highlights the transformative power of adventure by suggesting that it serves as an invitation for everyday individuals to pursue uncommon experiences. It signifies that through adventure, people can discover their potential, embrace challenges, and gain a newfound sense of identity that elevates them beyond the ordinary.
In practice
In a motivational speech about taking risks.
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.
Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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