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A Letter To My 18-Year-Old Self

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Daniel Jackson shot supermodel Christy Turlington and Calvin Klein creative directors Francisco Costa, Italo Zucchelli and Kevin Carrigan for WSJ. Magazine. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

“Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain…”

But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

You Don’t Need Your Pinky – And 7 Other Lessons Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro Will Teach You About Life & Business

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Last week I had the privilege of trekking to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro with a good friend of mine. Needless to say, lessons were learned. I tried to keep them different from the lessons I learned trekking to Everest Base Camp 2 years ago. And I didn't make a video this time like I ...

What The Himalayas Taught Me

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1 - My Life Is Not That Hard As always, traveling expands my horizons more than an elevating hot air balloon. Trekking the +80 mile-round-trip hike from Lukla to Everest Base Camp reinforced the trivial revelation that my life in America is not that difficult. I don’t have to tend to the land, I don’t have ...