Ben Saunders on Following One’s Dreams

Posted by Mike Richard on November 7, 2007
Filed under: Quotable, Sidelines

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From Ben Saunders, who is “the youngest person to ski solo to the geographic North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton”:

If you could offer one piece of advice, what would that be?
Follow your heart. Do what you’re passionate about; do it to the best of your ability, and everything else will fall into place. And there are only 650,000 hours in the average lifetime, so do it now!

Via BritHammer.com.

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

Amanda
November 9th, 2007 - 3:14 am

I wonder if young Ben spends a lot of time surfing the internet … and can I justify it by saying I’m passionate about it?


Mike
November 9th, 2007 - 9:45 am

Yes, so long as you only spend 640,000 of your total 650,000 life hours online.

Smart a$$! =P