Recovering from COVID and stack read ‘into thin air’ and ‘the climb’, about the 1996 Everest disaster.

Really puts everything I worried about just 6 weeks ago into perspective.

Makes me think about what it means to live a worthwhile life: what goal or vision do you want so much that it burns? What would you die for? …

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Thank you for the insightful share and review. I hope you recovery went well. As someone facing greater question such as the ones you posed, I will certainly check them out :)

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Also just tons of observations about human nature: Who can you really trust? On whom can you really rely? What actually matters when creating your life crew? E.g., many of Scott Fischer’s clients found Anatoli Boukreev off-putting during the climb up, but he was the one who ended up saving the lives of 3 climbers while others stayed scared in their tents when a blizzard came in.

I’ve been sprinting for years and never really had time to take a step back overall and reconsider not just my career, but the trajectory of my life.

Highly recommend both books, read together.

That is one of my favorite books. So good! And right, it makes all of our problems completely immaterial.

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