“Our brains are finely attuned to novelty and new sensations, but lose focus when things become commonplace. We stop paying attention to the less-than-novel stuff, and for expeditioners that means we inevitably slide toward complacency – and sometimes we only see that slide in hindsight.”

“Our brains are finely attuned to novelty and new sensations, but lose focus when things become commonplace. We stop paying attention to the less-than-novel stuff, and for expeditioners that means we inevitably slide toward complacency – and sometimes we only see that slide in hindsight.”

— Jill Heinerth