If you want a perspective from someone who was motivated solely by love of the experience, without the hipster dude baggage, I recommend Lynne Cox's memoir, Swimming to Antarctica. However, she seems to be motivated by the experience of endurance, not of risk per se.
It's kind of hard to talk about being an adrenaline junkie without sounding like a braggart or a jackass. It's more acceptable in social circles I'm not in at the moment, where it's just understood that we're all like that. When I try to explain it to people who don't feel that way, they tend to either disbelieve me or be repelled.
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If you want a perspective from someone who was motivated solely by love of the experience, without the hipster dude baggage, I recommend Lynne Cox's memoir, Swimming to Antarctica
It's kind of hard to talk about being an adrenaline junkie without sounding like a braggart or a jackass. It's more acceptable in social circles I'm not in at the moment, where it's just understood that we're all like that. When I try to explain it to people who don't feel that way, they tend to either disbelieve me or be repelled.