Michel Reijnen left his phone and camera behind before walking nearly 100 kilometers through Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.

He crossed rivers, slept in a hammock, hit a 30-kilometer day and learned quickly that being a vascular surgeon carried no special weight in the mud.

David Villanueva built the 10-Day Jungle Crucible after watching people enter the jungle stressed, finish a hard trip and go right back to the same life.

The miles are only part of it.

He makes people stop, write, talk and pay attention to what comes up under pressure.

That part got me.

We spend a lot of time becoming useful. We get very good at our titles. Then it gets hard to tell whether the work still belongs to us or we belong to the work.

Our new Life of Flow episode with Michel and David is out now.

Listen at the link in comments.