澳大利亚一位前总理曾经有一句名言：“生活的目的不是安逸。”也许他确实是意识到了某些东西：例如，也许在我们盲目追求所谓“方便的”生活方式和人为制造的忙碌之下，某些内在的东西正迫切地呼唤着我们的注意——这种意识便是，生活欺骗了我们，大家一旦发觉就能生活得更好。

    This is the starting point for Outward Bound, a venture that aims to take participants out of their "normal" environments and help them break out of conventions and limits. In philosophical terms, we're raised on conformity, taught from early childhood that there are right ways and wrong ways and boundaries we mustn't cross. Worse still, we blindly accept it all: we bunker down in comfort zones and deny ourselves the chance to come alive as human beings.

    这便是拓展训练的出发点 ......