If you have a strong why for pursuing a wild adventure, you’re more likely to find a way to get it done.

• Shelby Stanger is the host of REI’s “Wild Ideas Worth Living” podcast and the author of “Will to Wild: Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life”

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