Browsing through @Sovereign Engineering webpage which makes reference to Earnest Shackleton and the Endurance mission.
Consider my mind blown.
Do that and you have a brother for life in this guy. Let’s go.
I read Alfred Lansing’s book about the Endurance mission for the 5th time to kick off 2026. It’s an amazing story of adventure and expression of the human will to survive and one of the greatest survival and leadership stories ever.
-28 men stranded in Antarctica as their ship was crushed in the ice flows
-No communication with the outside world
-3 life boats, some guns, some rations, tents, reindeer skin sleeping bags and a group of (mostly) cheerful chaps.
I’ll do my best to not spoil it.
Shackleton’s family motto = Fortitudine vincimus, which is Latin for “Through endurance we conquer.”
A favourite quote from the book talking about how the situation they were put in allowed Shackleton to express his true genius:
“Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations, he had a talent—a genius even—that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history—genuine leadership. He was, as one of his men put it, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.” For all his blind spots and inadequacies, Shackleton merited this tribute:
For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, and when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
May that inspire you to find a situation where you can express your own genius.
Highly recommended read. WGMI.
Consider my mind blown.
Do that and you have a brother for life in this guy. Let’s go.
I read Alfred Lansing’s book about the Endurance mission for the 5th time to kick off 2026. It’s an amazing story of adventure and expression of the human will to survive and one of the greatest survival and leadership stories ever.
-28 men stranded in Antarctica as their ship was crushed in the ice flows
-No communication with the outside world
-3 life boats, some guns, some rations, tents, reindeer skin sleeping bags and a group of (mostly) cheerful chaps.
I’ll do my best to not spoil it.
Shackleton’s family motto = Fortitudine vincimus, which is Latin for “Through endurance we conquer.”
A favourite quote from the book talking about how the situation they were put in allowed Shackleton to express his true genius:
“Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations, he had a talent—a genius even—that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history—genuine leadership. He was, as one of his men put it, “the greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.” For all his blind spots and inadequacies, Shackleton merited this tribute:
For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, and when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
May that inspire you to find a situation where you can express your own genius.
Highly recommended read. WGMI.
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