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I'm passionate about

The journey of rock climbing. My goal is to one day give people an experience in life that will change the way they think and make them realise their potential. Life, we forget how beautiful it is.

An idea worth spreading

Be open to learning. Don't view failure as failing...instead, view it as an experience and Learn from it.

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Adventure. Travel. Music. Theology. Phsycology.

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• A reply on Conversation: If you woke up today and money ceased to exist, what is the first thing you would do? Why?

  Jul 28 2011: I agree with you there, space would be incredible!! Would there be space travel without money though? Serious question, not rhetorical.

• A reply on Conversation: If you woke up today and money ceased to exist, what is the first thing you would do? Why?

  Jul 27 2011: Why?

• A comment on Conversation: If you woke up today and money ceased to exist, what is the first thing you would do? Why?

  Jul 27 2011: I would get on my bike and head to the nearest farm where they grow their own vegies and meat and help out there. Would have to be close to a rock wall too so I could go climbing. I would do this so I had a place to wait out whatever would happen post money dissapearing. Would be interesting.
  
  Also, I think a lot of people have missed the point of the question. This is not a debate about what you think money means to you or the world, Corvida clearly states that she wants to know the first thing you would do. Stop being so pretentious.

• A comment on Conversation: Is giving Junk food to kids child abuse?

  Jul 25 2011: I think we should be talking about 'why' this is happening and what can be done about it. Part of the role of a parent is to provide a healthy upbringing for their children, where has this been lost on some people?

• A reply on Conversation: What would make you step out of your comfort zone?

  Feb 26 2011: Perhaps I could go with the angle that this is 'An opportunity to look at your career from a distraction free environment'. Give people a chance to detach themselves from every piece of technology and stress to discover why they've become so stuck. I think that might be tough though, telling someone that they're in a rut will be confronting. I have to make them realise it on their own, make it their idea. Not easy.

• A reply on Conversation: What would make you step out of your comfort zone?

  Feb 26 2011: So are you saying that me trying to give someone the chance to step out of their comfort zone is going to make most people uneasy? Unless I can give them some sort of proof that doing this will lead them into a higher place. I've found that most corporate 'team building' is something that is forced upon their workers. I need a way to get these people to be motivated enough to Want to do it.
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  A comment on Conversation: Should Governments start to measure what really matters to people - their happiness? Or should they stay out of such a private matter?

  Feb 18 2011: I think governments have an extremely hard task to actually know what 'we' want. Most of us rarely know what we want ourselves. Ever-changing styles governed by people who don't really care about us, only how they can put their name out there and make some money. The generation in their 50's now are going to want something different from what the generation in their 20's will want when they hit 50.
  
  I think trying to keep everyone happy is a battle no-one should start. Perhaps governments should be creating a society that enables people to be flexible with their lives in a way that doesn't leave employers in shit and our economy screaming. Most people stay in crappy situations because it's just easier. Figure that one out and I think governments will be one step closer. I know a lot of people that go through cycles; They're not happy with their situation, so they change it and slowly bring themselves out of a hole. Only to find something else wrong with their new situation and do it all over again. Can we change something that may actaully be built into us as humans?

• A comment on Talk: Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women

  Jan 10 2011: Hi Hanna,
  I'm unsure on your position on the shift in domination on the worlds economy. Are you supporting the fact that women are overtaking men in the high paying feilds? Shouldn't we be working towards an interdependant society? If men are overthrown, so to speak, aren't we going to have the same issues that women have been faced with over the years? Also, if all of this is changing the way society functions, does it correlate with the rise in divorce?
  
  Something for the men out there... Now I know this isn't all of you but what happened to the male chasing the female? Have we actually become that gutless? Or are we too intimdated by how strong women have become?
  
  What I want to know is, if women are going to become a lot more dominant in the world, why should that have to overthrow our role as men: to pamper, to protect, to open the door for, to pay for their meal on a date, to give up our seat for them on a bus etc?
  
  Do we still feel appreciated to keep up these practices?

• A reply on Talk: Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women

  Jan 10 2011: I'm interested in why boys are performing so poorly in school aswell. My theory is that they don't exactly have many good role models for the jobs that women are excelling in. Coming through at a time when a lot of their fathers would have middle class jobs, trades etc, not the kind of jobs women are excelling in today. Is this making them give up in school? Are their fathers pushing them in the wrong direction? Is society making them feel unworthy because of the push on women power?

• A reply on Talk: Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep

  Jan 7 2011: thats because after all the studies done relating to sleep, the best reason they have come up with for why we sleep is: "Because we are sleepy".