It took a near death experience to shake Lewis Pugh out of his aggressive approach to over coming nature’s obstacles. Having tested his body to the limits by swimming the frigid sub zero waters of the North Pole, Pugh vowed never to tackle a cold water swim again. “Then, he heard of Mt. Everest’s Lake Imja — a body of water at an altitude of 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting — and began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach both swimming and think about climate change.” -TEDtalksDirector
The lesson of going along with nature instead of being its adversary is best illustrated in the following quote.
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”-Bruce Lee
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