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> Why Am I Doing This?

> I have no good reason. I just want to see if I am capable of doing it and what will happen.

I laughed at that line. The whole thing sounded crazy enough that I figured there was some body hacking/hyper optimization angle to it. I’m glad that it was just for the hell of it! I probably wouldn’t try this particular experiment on myself, but I appreciate and share the “fuck it, why not?” ethos.

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I appreciate it for the same reason. I feel like it's one of those things that you either just get or you just don't get. Like trying to explain to someone why you might like exploration for explorations sake, or things of that nature. You can be sold and incredibly expensive travel package, but I think if you can come up with creative ideas, there are frontiers in the sense of unusual experiences that give you the rare chance to bring out something different in you, which I think is the goal a lot of people have with travel. We're just socialized into understanding and accepting travel more.

> Why Am I Doing This?

There some form of monetization in many of these challenges whether it translates to real money or attention, likes, traffic and so on. While reading this I was wondering why not interview blind people? They're in this for so long and a good picture of what it is to be blind.

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