Throw Away Your Self-Help Books, Here’s a Realistic Guide to Success
Mount Everest is beautiful. Not only for the view but also for its symbolic meaning. We often associate Mount Everest with motivation and success. We think of people who successfully climbed it as superhumans. Damn, one day I want to climb it myself.
But there is something about Mount Everest that isn’t that beautiful. It’s horrifying. It’s macabre. It’s 200 human bodies spread across it. It’s so dangerous to attempt recovering them that they are often left there for good. And if you will climb it one day, you may even find some of them yourself.
You have probably seen the meme. “For every corpse on Mount Everest, there was once a highly motivated person”. Can’t argue with that.
Mike Hughes was a highly motivated person himself. He didn’t aspire to get on the top of Mount Everest, he aspired to get much higher. He wanted to launch himself on a rocket to prove his theory that the Earth is flat.
He actually built a rocket and launched himself on January 30, 201⁴¹. He crashed and suffered from injuries, but this failed attempt didn’t stop him. He made other unsuccessful attempts, until February 22, 2020, when he failed for the last time, crashing on private property and dying².
