He could plan a trip to climb everest but couldn’t plan a family.
A lad with a young family fucking off to do this shit is wired wrong
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The insta field is crowded with new babies. Need an angle.
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Damien Browne isn’t trying to climb to the top of Mount Everest, he’s trying to climb to the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of individual needs.
Everest is only a prop.
But the highest peak of Maslow’s hierachy of individual needs is a sham. If you’re aiming to scale it, you can never do so. In your quest to be a free, self-actualising individual, you are a slave.
You can only scale Maslow’s hierarchy by being lower down on it. Which simultaneously means you cannot scale it.
Schrodinger’s peak. It exists, but yet it can never exist.
theres a theory that the poeple who gather up cans in shopping trollies are closer to self actualisation than anyone else will ever be
An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”
To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”
“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.
The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”
“Millions – then what?”
The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
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Depends if they’re Tuborg or not.
Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama to name but two are self actualised. It’s not a con at all but is only a theory that’s a good metric. You can take it literally or as a guide to self development.
What I do know is anyone who shoots it down as a cod will never be self actualised or whatever their own version of that looks like.
It’s a yellowfin tuna mate.
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Done me up like a kipper there in fairness to you
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Don’t worry, be happy
Dunno if anyone else was following it, but some rollercoaster of a podcast.
Comes to a conclusion in the latest episode.
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He blamed it all on his poor auld Sherpa, the bollox.
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Who is the bollox? The Sherpa or Browne?
Browne.
and the Sherpa carrying him and his bags up the side of the mountain.
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Listened after your recommendation. Well worth the listen.
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I’ve a friend who guides these charity/corporate expeditions, he did the Kilimanjaro trip before with a few of the ex-rugby heads. He’d say that anyone over 100kg is just physiologically completely unsuited to doing the big peaks like Everest.
Browne doesn’t have the profile from his rugby career to get onto the after-dinner circuit, but he built up a following from the time he rowed the Atlantic.
If he was to admit he failed himself to get up to the summit he’d be done as far as the corporate gigs go.
Dunno if you listened to any of it. But completely out of his control. Seems a very driven individual but I dunno if many people would choose to leave their 5 day old to go climb a mountain.
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If you were following the story he had plenty of excuses to quit before now if he wanted to.
It was a very interesting story to follow and I certainly wouldn’t be thinking less of him after it.
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