Learning through adventure and exploration tends to reap rewards in terms of experience and unknown assistance but it surprises me how these ways of being sometimes mean I am framed by others in a certain way. I would say that anyone can benefit from being a little more adventurous and I think this starts with the following:

  • Breaking the social relations and habits (and leisure past time) of consumption – e.g. shopping as a hobby and talking with others about it expecting reassurance for actions
  • Reducing the amount of owned objects which do not serve any everyday purpose
  • Getting into the outdoors and making proper journeys
  • Cycling as a way to move about and see the world differently, breaking the connection with technological speed and reducing the cost of mobility
  • Understanding some of the underlying functions of how capitalist society and (psychology behind it) works and therefore developing a critical approach to it
  • Being aware of the gap between what society considers morally correct and what is ethically true

My adventure skills have much in common with design methods and processes:

  • Thinking methods and processes are means for thinking and applying intelligence
  • Adventurous living and the means to making life adventurous allow for living adventurously

There are multi-fold advantages:

  • Structuring communication that turns away from debating ideas towards reflecting on practice
  • Learning through practice rather than only from cultural artefacts
  • Gaining a sense perspective of one’s subjectivity and anthropocentric viewpoint on the world

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