FLAME with Brad Hook
How Taking Less Helps You Do More: Lessons in Simplicity
Glen Van Peski pioneered ultralight backpacking — cutting pack weight from 50 pounds to under 10 — and discovered the philosophy transfers: taking less, in gear and in life, lets you do more.
Gossamer Gear, the company Glen founded, helped invent a discipline: interrogating every gram until only what earns its place remains. His book Take Less. Do More. applies the same audit to life — commitments, possessions, worries — with the same result: lightness buys range.
But the conversation's warmest thread is what Glen found on the trail besides lightness: curiosity, generosity and gratitude as practices rather than personality traits. Whether you're an outdoor person or just carrying too much — literally or otherwise — this one lightens the load.
In this episode
- Ultralight thinking: interrogate every gram
- How taking less expands what you can do
- Auditing commitments the way you'd audit a pack
- Generosity and gratitude as trail-tested practices
- Lightness buys range — in packs and in life
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