What Tynan thinks about motivation
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tynan has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe point of a grueling long-distance hike is to endure hardship, not to enjoy the scenery.
Their wordsThe whole point of the AT, as far as I could tell, was to endure hardship, and I was about to quit before the first rainy hike and the tallest mountain.
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Their wordsIt's such a pointless achievement and yet when you're at 99, all you think of is going to one more country so you can never think about the number of countries you've been to again.