How One Boston Marathoner Crushes All Her Extreme Goals

In a world of snow plough parenting, college admissions scandals and the $2Bn dollar a year “participation trophy” industry – it’s easy for an Extremer like me to get down in the dumps about the lengths I see people go to make life “easy”. It goes hand in hand with...

3 Things Ambitious Extremers Can Learn From Bruce Springsteen

If you haven’t picked up your copy of Bruce Springsteen’s new memoir, Born to Run, I’d say run, don’t walk, to get your hands on it. Now the first thing you’re going to notice is that it’s a freeken giant book of 500 pages long, which may have you turning towards your...

5 Pieces of Advice for an EXTREME 2018

BOOM! Just like that 2017 is coming to an end! We are now officially in resolutions season, triggering that amazing feeling of having a blank slate upon which to put a whole fresh set of hopes and goals. I looked back at some of my favorite articles and talks of 2017...

3 Tips for Success Every Graduate Needs to Ignore

We are coming to the end of another graduation season which means plenty of advice is lurking in the air, but not all of it is good advice if you’re planning to get out there and truly kick ass. There are three big themes I keep hearing that I think pretty much suck....

Attention Class of 2017: Go Forth and Screw Up!

Image: Faustin Tuyambaze/Unsplash   Did everyone suddenly turn, um, perfect? In this era of social-media awesomeness, where every screen we glance at shows us everyone’s perfectly Instagrammed picture and amazing career accolades and all the rest,...