Book Review - Take Less. Do More.: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker

About the Book
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, allowing people to take less to do more in the wilderness. Over decades of championing ultralight backpacking, Glen became aware that “take less, do more” is more than a hiking slogan. As he reduced his pack weight, he realized that the lessons learned applied to all areas of life. Now, he wants to share the lessons he learned to help others live entire and vibrant lives—lives characterized by purpose, meaning, and joy.

In this book, you will discover transformative life lessons that may go against the grain of popular thought but have been proven to improve lives. You’ll learn that:

• Often, the best strategy for achieving goals is 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 your stories about situations will reframe 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.

My Take on the Book
What constitutes a well-lived life? This is something that I have contemplated, especially more recently as I have gotten older. That being said, this author makes you think more deeply about this, but beyond thinking, he also helps you to find ways to have a more fulfilled life in the end. What I found interesting was how he incorporated his experience in backpacking with his philosophy on living life. It was something I had not considered and made me think about my own life in new ways too. So get ready to think deeply about your own life and hold on for the ride, as where the book takes you is very different than where you start.

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