Outward Bound

I did the Colorado Outward Bound Course in the summer of 1976. It was the entire month of July for me. It was the first and best adventure of my life... I recommend it to everyone.

A little background: Back in WWII the British discovered that about 95% of people on a ship that was sunk died. Of those that survived, if they were on a ship that sank after their first experience, about 95% of the time they lived. Thus they drew the conclusion that it was having had the experience of surviving that made people KNOW they could survive!

SO Outward Bound began, to take you past the barrier of not knowing to the area of knowing you can. That is an interesting idea, you think you can't, so you die. You think you can, and you LIVE. Not because you will live, but because you lived the last time, so you BELIEVE you will and you then DO!

If you can attend an Outward Bound Course, do it. If you have kids, send them to one as young as possible. It changed my life, it will change yours, or theirs.