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Greg Mortenson
Best-Selling Author, Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson: There's a lot of physical preparation, which means doing a lot of physical training to put yourself into an aerobic threshold where, you know, running a marathon but then going on more, so that your body gets used to the continued exertion on your body. There's mental preparation. K2 is much more remote than Mount Everest, and also, we didn't have porters, or we didn't have oxygen. So we had to be able to use our own resources -- in case we had some problem on the mountain -- to get off the mountain. And then finally, it cost about $10,000 for me at the time. So I had to spend time raising money and getting all the gear together, financially and physically and mentally. And also kind of spiritually really, realizing that I took this on as a very serious way to honor my sister Christa. Because I was very devastated when she died. We were very close. I had to really struggle, saying, "Why does the world have such a special person have to leave us?" She was a big inspiration for many of us. So there was a lot of thinking about why this happened. And yet, Christa in all her life was a woman of great joy and courage and faith. So there's all different kinds of things to get ready to climb a mountain.
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Story Musgrave
Dean of American Astronauts
I am better now, as an astronaut in my 60s, than in my 40s because it's a very complex business in which experience and perspective play a lot. You tend to scope out. You tend to know ahead of time what you're going to have to learn to get that job done. It's not a stick and rudder, it is not an instinctually reflective thing. You don't just jump on things, you've got to study them. And it's a very complex business in which experience counts. I create a lot of hope for people because they see, in fact, that not only am I better in my 60s, but I'm having more fun. They see a richer life. And so, I'm even amazed myself. I'm even amazed, too, that life is so much better in my 60s than my 20s.
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Ralph Nader
Consumer Crusader
Ralph Nader: Yes. Citizenship requires skills like any other occupation or profession, and it's good to learn on the job. You can read about citizen movements, the farmer, Populist, Progressive movements at the turn of the century, and the Civil Rights movement. But, it's good to learn it by doing. And, you get better every year you get better. You know how to develop strategies and coalitions and how to get the attention of the media and how to use the levers of action, and how to be perfectly willing to generate controversy which gets people thinking.
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