Friday, October 11, 2013

What an Antarctic Expedition Can Teach You About What’s Truly Valuable

What is truly valuable?

What They Left and What They Kept: What an Antarctic Expedition Can Teach You About What’s Truly Valuable | The Art of Manliness: "Shackleton’s men were faced with a series of heart-wrenching choices. Given the scant two-pound allowance, which of their cherished personal possessions should they keep, and which should they cast aside into what Shackleton called “the privacy of these white graves”?

Taking inventory of what the members of the Endurance expedition decided to keep and what they left behind can teach us much about what is truly valuable — not only literally, in terms of material possessions — but as broader symbols of what matters most in life for all of us."

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