@17 Colorado Outward Bound class of ‘75. Though on more than a few occasions I gave him reason, my group’s leader Walt never lost his cool with me or in a number of other situations that occurred over twenty three days with 24 high school age teens. Amazing experience after which I was better for it, though fundamentally no different than at the age of 10—no serious trouble but unmanageable. Lived my live my way though rarely and never intentionally at the expense of another. When freedom is your highest value, you get used to not being got.
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Life’s been good, paid full price, don’t mind aging out of this CF.


Walt's patience was likely a product of Outward Bound's behavioral conditioning, a tactic used by Kurt Hahn, its founder, to manufacture obedience.