Positive thinking is contagious
Our self-absorbed societies are always more focused on visible differences. The time has come to bet on invisible similarities.
Positive contagion on the blog
Jan 2017
Op-Ed: What is it all for?
Earthling habits will be back soon enough. The arrivals take turn at the Sables d’Olonne and I am starting to see Europe. Not with the […]
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Jan 2017
Op-Ed: Sailing Past Cape Horn
Today I am sailing past Cape Horn. Only saying it brings up a whole lot of emotions. I feel like I am offering it to […]
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Jan 2017
Op-Ed: I am with the God of the Seas
After 59 days on the race, I am now only a few miles away from the pole of inaccessibility. It’s the place, at sea, where […]
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Dec 2016
Op-Ed: I saw myself announcing my giving up a 100 times.
What an Ocean, this Indian! After a month racing, I finally made it there and it did earn its reputation. The wind is strong but […]
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Dec 2016
Op-Ed: Taking one Mile at a Time
Going south, south, south. It’s my current obsession. I have to make it to Cape Agulhas, which marks the entrance to the Indian Ocean but […]
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Nov 2016
Op-Ed: Thoughts for the Other during my Loneliness at Sea
The willingness to go towards the other seems absurd and yet it is what I am experiencing in the middle of the longest solo race […]
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Nov 2016
Op-Ed: Acknowledging one’s weaknesses is to become an adult
This week is the symposium on weaknesses and I am fortunate to be a patron of it. It is a topic very dear to me […]
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Nov 2016
Op-Ed: It’s the fear that scares us
When you leave to compete on the Vendée Globe, you leave with a lot of apprehensions. In the helicopter images you see on TV, we […]
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Nov 2016
Op-Ed: Happiness Means the Unknown
This departure for the Vendée Globe race was a great leap into the unknown. It’s the craziest thing of my life. Before this, I went […]
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