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Exploration is a fundamental part of what makes us human. We're wired to go off the beaten path for new places, experiences, and ideas. What's the impact of this on our life? Alex Hutchinson explains.
How Exploration, Uncertainty, and Risk Help Us Find Meaning with Author Alex Hutchinson
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In The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map, Alex Hutchinson dives headfirst into a fascinating and provocative new field of research, examining how exploration is a fundamental part of what makes us human.
Off the beaten path, on unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a primal urge that has shaped our species and continues to mold our behavior in ways we are just beginning to understand.
How does the digital world interfere with our motivation to explore what's out there?
From paddling the lost rivers of the northern Canadian wilderness to the ocean-spanning voyages of the Polynesians, The Explorer’s Gene combines riveting stories of exploration with cutting-edge insights from behavioral psychology and neuroscience. Here we find meaning in our past struggles, embracing the possibility of failure in our future, and recognizing good enough.
About the Author: Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning science journalist with a big-picture focus on human performance and particular interests in fitness, endurance sports, and the outdoors. He is Outside magazine’s longtime Sweat Science columnist, and his writing also appears in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Before journalism, he was a postdoctoral physicist at the National Security Agency and a long-distance runner for the Canadian national team. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughters.
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