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Into the Woods with Holly Worton


Aug 24, 2020

I'm excited to introduce this week's guest, Brad Borkan. We first met at a Meetup group for authors in London, and I recently read his first book, When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic. I loved reading the stories of Antarctic explorers, and how we can learn to make better decisions in our own lives based on how they made decisions 100 years ago.

While most of us will not make it to the South Pole, we all have our own outdoors adventures in life, and in this episode you'll learn how to make better decisions in life.

 

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About Brad Borkan

Brad Borkan has a lifelong interest in how people survive, and thrive, in almost impossible situations.  Brad is co-author of the book, When Your Life Depends on It.  The book puts the reader right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early explorers. It also looks at what we can learn from their situations to help us make better decisions in our modern lives. When Your Life Depends on It has been endorsed by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the world’s greatest living explorer.

Brad is an author and lecturer and has presented at business and Antarctic conferences, appeared on cable TV in the US, as a guest on podcasts and internet radio programs as well as a keynote speaker at a literary festival. Brad has travelled to all 7 continents. In 2019, Brad gave a guest lecture about his book on a 114 passenger “expedition” cruise to Antarctica.

Originally from the US, and now based in London, Brad was honored to be made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He and his co-author are working on a new book about decision making to be released at the end of 2020.  His website is www.extreme-decisions.com.

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What You'll Learn

  • How people make decisions—both “good” and “bad” ones
  • How we can learn to make better decisions in life
  • Things we can learn from Antarctic explorers
  • Why it's so life-changing to recognize the teams we have in our lives
  • How we can use our own outdoor adventures to make better decisions in life

 

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