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Achieving Adventure
Achieving
adventure is when the adventure's participants feel they
succeeded. There are many ways to define a successful
adventure including:
- Meeting their
goals
- Exceeding the participants expectations
- Having people leave the adventure wanting to repeat it all
over again
- Enabling participants to either travel to a place,
participate at a higher level or learn something that they
didn't think they could do on their own.
For some people
just surviving the adventure and leaving healthy enough to
return to normal life may be enough to declare the adventure
a success.
When people
participate in an adventure and do not feel they succeeded,
they have achieved a misadventure. Misadventures range from
serious disasters to simply failing to meet goals.
Depending on the
mental attitude of the participants it is possible to
achieve adventure even when while failing to meet the goals
of the participants. If people are willing to make the best
of the situation, and take away the positive experiences
that the experience offered, it is very possible that even
misadventures can be seen as positive experiences. This is
where great guides turn potential disasters into life long
memorable adventures.
As a professional
guide the gold
standard is when the guide has exceeded their participant’s
expectations and everyone leaves the adventure wanting to do
it all over again.
When people
achieve an adventure worth repeating it means they were
exposed to the right amount of challenge and felt good about
what they had done. This means enough of the elements of the
Guide’s Guide came together and the guide was able to
create the right conditions for people to succeed.
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