Train Your Mind – Lei Wang

EVEREST LESSONS: WHY

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Now you can imagine, if you don’t have deep WHY for climbing this mountain, what kind of torture would it be to debate every day “Is it worth it?” You have to want to climb because you are truly passionate about mountains. Passion…

Everest Lessons: HOW

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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" This famous quote from Nietzsche is the absolute foundation if you want to be successful in any hard endeavoring. To avoid making it an abstract philosophical discussion,…

What does it take to climb Everest?

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5/27/2010 Everest Summit – summary written on May 27, 2010 It has been a few days since the summit, but I’m still trying to digest the fact that I just climbed Everest. Was it hard? It depends. If you have read the previous…

How can you stay motivated?

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How do I motivate myself through so many years of arduous training and during the hardest time of my climbs?It is a question I get often. It's the same question I pondered again and again on mountain tops and in my everyday life.The…

Everest Lessons: How did it start?

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Before I dive into the lessons I learned from Everest, first of all, how did the whole thing start? The credit goes to the documentary movie “Touching the Void”. It was my first winter in Boston. As a fresh MBA graduate, I was working…

The most important lessons from Everest

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It's that time of the year again ... May always brings back the memory of Mount Everest. This year is the 11th year anniversary of my Everest summit. In 2004, inspired by the movie “Touching the Void”, I had this daydream of climbing…

Getting My Courage Back

Lessons Everywhere, Train Your Mind

Have you always wanted to make some big changes in your life, but were held back by fear? Be it moving to a new place, changing career track, or starting a new business. Even you know that’s what your heart calls for, but you just couldn’t…

How to motivate yourself when you are bored

The Value of Success, Train Your Mind

When you are building a new business, or want to become the best in the world, you know you are in for an adventure. Exciting, right? When I was skiing toward the south pole, a journey that very few people have taken, I learned, the biggest…