Take Less. Do More.

Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

De: Glen Van Peski

Narrado por: Andrew Rowe

In this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the life lessons he has learned through years of lightening his pack and helping others. Adventures provide the richness and texture to a life well lived. So remain open. Keep saying "YES" to life's opportunities.

Glen Van Peski helped revolutionize backpacking by creating ultralight equipment, which allows people to take less so they can do more in the wilderness. During decades of championing ultralight backpacking, Glen became aware that “take less, do more” is more than just a hiking slogan. As he reduced his pack weight, he realized that the lessons learned applied to areas of life. Now he wants to share the lessons he learned to help others live full and vibrant lives—lives characterized by purpose, meaning, and joy.

In this book, you will discover transformative life lessons, which may go against the grain of popular thought but have been proven to change lives for the better. You'll learn that: Often the best strategy for achieving goals comes from subtracting rather than adding.

When your first instinct is generosity, the long-term dividends will be greater than if you strive to gain your own advantage.

Revising the stories you tell yourself about situations will re-frame your life and increase gratitude.

By investing creatively in relationships, you will generate more joy in your life.

Making friends with failure will cause you to grow and improve. take less. do more. It's a revolutionary idea that will transform your life and free your soul to find your purpose—and maybe a little bit of adventure too.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Glen Van Peski (P)2024 Glen Van Peski

A Wonderful Book

This book is filled with great actionable ideas. It is a book you will want to listen to a couple times to capture all of the great nuggets of information.

So much more than a backpacking book

Glen does a masterful job of sewing together adventure stories, engineering anecdotes, trail magic, life lessons, leadership principles, faith, and relationship truth into an easy to carry philosophy on life - take less and do more. Loved it!

His openness and humility

I live in Bend. Good words and ideas to make the world a better place for all!

Thoroughly enjoyed! Rereading!

Amazingly thoughtful perspective on how to live a wonderful life! Very well done Grant! Hope it becomes best seller!

Packs a Lot in a Small Package (Appropriately)

This is much more than a backpacking book. There are backpacking tips here, especially for those who want to lighten their load.

But the book is really a compilation of life lessons. The book will make you think and helps make you see the good things.

It is not a long book, but it is efficient--which seems appropriate for an ultralight backpacker.

Lessons of Interconnectedness

Inspiring and entertaining. GVP has some great stories to tell from his years exploring the wilderness and from his daily life. Lots of valuable material, delivered efficiently, as one would expect from a master of ultralight.

Honest and open

If you like the outdoors, backpacking or just an honest account of the ups and downs in life, this is a great read / listen.

Been Waiting for Years for this Book...

I’ve followed Glen’s story since my first GG pack almost 25 years ago. Like Glen, I’ve been fascinated by the world of ultralight backpacking for a very large chuck of my life. I could connect to so many of the themes in this book. His focus on saying “yes” to opportunities even when a person is an introvert was a centerpiece for me. And the focus on gratitude and generosity were both things I think so many people could really benefit from. Thank you Glen for finally putting your thoughts and wisdom in a form that so many can access. It’s yet another gift you have given.

Life Changing

I thought I was about to listen to another backpacking book about life on the trail. Glen shares valuable lessons about life, putting yourself out there, being creative, getting out of your comfort zone and so much more. His story is one to remember and an example to all of us. Such an amazing read. I read the book and listened to it again on audible. Did not want to miss a thing!

The author’s self congratulatory remarks

What I hoped would be an insightful look at reductive approaches to pack weight seems instead to be a self-congratulatory essay on how he lives a better, simpler life (With his 2 vacation homes I'm sure). A sense of "My way of living is better and should be aspired to" pervades the book. Terrible!