Forum Summary
"Simplify Your Life" By Mr. Adam West
By Kaleb Johnson In his forum presentation, Mr. West admonished the students to lead simple lives. Mr. West showed the Living Education students how to avoid stress, complication, and chaos. The answer is to simplify your life. He explained the power of simplification with a story, and he gave three steps we can all take
Thor Heyerdahl and the 1947 KonTiki expedition Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer who studiedPolynesian culture and history. He postulated that the natives of Polynesia were not from Asia but rather South America. This hypothesis was doubted because no one believed the primitive South American rafts could survive the 5,000 mile trip from Peru to French Polynesia. To prove it was possible, Thor
Heyerdahl constructed an authentic balsa wood raft with primitive technology and set sail with a small crew from Peru in 1947, with no modern equipment. For 101 days, Thor and his crew survived on evaporated water and fish, using only the wind for power and the sun, moon and stars to navigate. For 101 days, Thor Heyerdahl knew how little a man needs to survive. This led him to say, “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.”
Three mandates of Ambassador College Our world today is hectic, overwhelming, and often too complicated for us to handle. Mr. West recalled the three mandates he