Ep: 46 Lands of the Lost Borders with Kate Harris

💫Dust off your passport. You’ll be taking off on an adventure after reading this!✨ You've got to listen to this amazing interview with the author, scientist, explorer Kate Harris. She is a total badass, inspiration and humanitarian. She has written one of the better books I have ever read! And the best that I have read in quite some time. Her memoir reads like page turning fiction because it's so exciting and the things she does -- you can see it as she describes them. This book makes you want to get out and explore. She addresses real life topics and brings wonderful existential questions to mind. Here are some of the questions I ask Kate: 1. Where do you think your sense of I can DO THIS — and I don’t have to be in this box comes from? 2. There is this point in the book where you and Mel are diving under an actual border with your bikes and then hiding, crashing, evading — excitement — I know I can’t generalize people - but a lot of people seem to live in a really safe place where doing something like that — seems CRAZY — yet you did it and in reading it— it sounds amazing and yet, a bit scary — What do you think it is that allows you to just do things — and not live in that fear based state? Or do you live there and overcome it? Is there any of that? 3. There are a million different places in the book that I’ve highlighted — there is one part where you refer to this quote by the Chinese Sage Hsu Yu, “Names are only the guests of of reality” borders are little more than collective myths - fictions that a certain number of people, for a certain period of time, believe are fact.” Can we talk about this? 4. Second favorite quote from you, “But I worried that something crucial gets lost in such transactions, namely a recognition that the world has value and meaning beyond its usefulness to us” — WHOA! YES YES YES — let’s talk about this and what it means to you and how others can begin to put this into practice in their daily lives. 5. 3rd favorite quote from book — "We’re only here by fluke, and only for a little while, so why not run with life as far and wide as you can?” I look around at so many people on autopilot — myself included for a long time, thinking that you have to follow this line - and whoa, can’t do that because it’s not safe, stable, reasonable — whatever the limit is — but — you have just proven - there are no limits! What advice to have to anyone that reads your book about how to break limits be the self imposed or not? What do you think about limits? https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062839343/lands-of-lost-borders/ http://kateharris.ca/home/ www.allwaysanotherway.com