What the MOST BRUTAL Expedition Ever Teaches Us | Shackleton & the Endurance
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- John Lovell shares insight & observation from Ernest Shackleton's INCREDIBLE Trans-Antarctic expedition to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914 as told in the book "Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing (link below).
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"Complainers don't accomplish great feats." Good stuff!
This is one of the few books I've ever read that kept me up at night while reading it, rather than put me to sleep. Such an incredible story of leadership, grit, and willpower.
@@stevexracer4309 immature.
@pa_2600 Please stop recommending that trash. It's shallow and narrow sighted. It's goofy while trying to be serious. If One Second After is good fiction to you, I wouldn't trust your taste for a second.
Same thing happened to me. Couldn't put it down.
its nonfiction bro!@@stevexracer4309
I read the Endurance book a few years back and highly recommend it. Did a significant amount of Arctic and cold weather training in the Army so appreciate some of the difficulties and suffering these men went through. An amazing story of leadership, grit and faith.
“There is no way to make a man and keep a man strong except that he endure suffering” - John Lovell
John makes some really good points here. I've always been interested in Shackleton and even visited his birth home when I was in Ireland some years ago. Below are a few facts that may shed a little more light on some points John made.
Shackleton tore some pages from the Bible before he left it, the flyleaf with the Queens inscription, the 23rd Psalm and a verse from the book of Job.
The Queens inscription from Psalm 107:24 reads, 'May the Lord guide you through all dangers by land and sea. May you see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.'
The verse from the Book of Job 38:29-30 reads, 'Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath rendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone and the face of the deep is frozen.'
Another crew member retrieved the Bible Shackleton discarded and carried it home. It is now in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society.
Certainly! Revelation 22:18-19 says:
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
In simpler terms, this passage warns against adding or taking away from the words of the prophecy found in the book of Revelation. It emphasizes the importance of preserving the integrity and accuracy of the biblical text. It signifies the significance of faithfully preserving the message and not distorting it or altering it in any way. Those who tamper with the words of the prophecy are warned of potential consequences, such as the plagues mentioned in the book, and the potential removal of their part in the book of life and exclusion from the holy city.
John, So what is it you about Shackleton you admire? He was a man seeking notoriety and fame. His initial plan was to travel across Antartica by land. The ship that he renamed Endurance got trapped in the ice. It eventually sank. They are in desperation mode. Shackleton tears out a page of the Bible from the book of Job. You conclude that his choice of scripture is why they suffered.
They are in a freezing, desolate place!
Are you the kind of guy that studies scripture by closing your eyes and pointing down to a passage and that’s your inspiration for the day?
I think it would be wise for you to seek out a Christian mentor. Someone to who you are accountable.
Your audience deserves better.
@@Juanito.San55 You should burn your Bible. You lost the whole point.
So words of inspiration. Maybe he was in fact a man of faith. Maybe not But the fact he tore out those two verses changes the story quite a bit.
Excellent book! Them sliding down that hill to the whaling station was something and I about cried when they knocked on the door and the guy turned around to cry since everyone thought he was lost. “For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen, but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton” Raymond Priestly
Man John's assessment of Shackleton's story is on point. If you rely on your own strength, you will be able to accomplish what a man can do. When you lean on God's strength, God will accomplish what only He is able to do. He makes incredibly weak men, incredibly strong, for His own glory.
"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." -2 Corinthians 12:9-10
“For I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it”
John, I believe that back then people had faith in our Lord, but some maybe even most of them didn’t have it on a daily basis. Especially rugged explorers, they dreamed of the notoriety of finding a new passage or being the first to do this or that, to get their name in the paper, of the riches they might receive.
When something tragic happens, worked through it to survive not just give up.
It would be interesting to know what page he took and he was thinking about the Lord or else he would of thrown the whole bible away.
I was always taught that the Lord would only lay on your shoulders as much as you could handle.
Just my thought.
Thanks
@@angler1262 I also see your point, but my thought here is that the converse is what a real, strong man is. The ones that value and can see what is really important.
Consider a man, equally adventurous, who came just a generation before Shackleton, Robert Jermain Thomas. He is a man almost nobody knows and died at the age of 26.
He also had a life of suffering. His bride died at a young age. Also seeking adventure, he became a missionary. He translated the Bible into Korean. His goal was to bring the Bible to the hermit kingdom. He was successful at hiding amongst the people smuggling complete Bibles in. On one such attempt, an armed American trading ship he was on opened fire on a Korean village (this was not Thomas's intent). The Koreans retaliated and destroyed the ship, killing Thomas along with the crew.
Thomas reportedly threw Bibles to the oncoming attackers. In his last momenets, he tried to give a Bible to the person who killed him.
Years later, the only portions of the Bible to survive were a few pages that a Korean official hung on their wall as a war trophy. Those pages happened to be from one of the gospels. A church ended up being formed around the few pages on that wall.
In the 1900s when Christian missionaries returned, they discovered that a church was already formed with only a few of the scriptures hanging on the wall.
I tell that story to say that there are men who have such a high view of scripture that they would give up their lives for only a few pages to be distributed to unreached people.
A man like Robert Jermain Thomas is someone I would much rather emulate than a man like Shackleton.
I'm not saying Shackleton wasn't a Christian. I'm saying that his view of God was not something to emulate as compared to other great men of history, men whose acts will last for eternity, many of whose names we probably don't even know.
I also tell and remember that story to remember that we have brothers and sisters who reside in from every culture, toungue and nation, including nations that we consider enemies. As a Christian, those people are closer to us than some blood relatives are. They are not from those nations, we are not either, we all belong to the Kingdom of God. They will be the ones we spend eternity with.
So for me its a good reminder of what love really is. Its not just being willing to lay down your life for your friends, its being willing to lay down your life for the chance that those people will come to know Jesus. That is wild crazy love and strength.
Read this book years ago and it's a good one. I saw an article recently that they'd recently found the ship and photographed it on the bottom of the sea. Amazing.
So I'm going to come to Shackleton's defense on the Bible thing. I read the Little House on the Prairie books when I was a kid and in one of the books when they were snowed in and couldn't physically go to church they had Sunday school at home. The girls competed to see who could recite the most Bible verses from memory. This was back in the late 1800's and Shackleton's voyage was in the early 1900's, makes me think that maybe memorizing lots of Bible verses could have been a thing for Shackleton's men. No sense in carrying the book when you already have it in your heart and can quote uplifting passages from memory.
You could also look at Shackleton bringing that one page from the book of Job as a reminder that this journey is going to suck, but we are going to get through it. I mean, they are in the antarctic and there are no planes to come rescue them, they're going to suffer. It was a nearly impossible situation and we still can't figure out how they survived, let alone with all of the men alive. Let's not look God's miracle horse in the mouth.
But I also could be completely wrong in my interpretation. Maybe your interpretation of Shackleton is right, nobody alive today knew the guy.
What an incredible experience this must have been, the fact that no one died is a true miracle in itself.
That's also how I experienced the book of Job so you're not crazy lol
Having had my own arctic challenge and survived, i can say that the immense scope of wilderness adds to reality of no back up and the phrase
Never Give Up. I agree with the previous post. Verbal recital of the Bible was common as was biblical stories and analogies. Failing eyesight from poor nutrition and poorly lit hovels would impede reading. I submit, Shackelton knew this and his choice of Job was to hold the message that Yodvay and Yeshua would never desert him. To never give up his responsibility to his crew. Each man learned or knew from scratch . To help, love and care for the other. To live the word is better than to carry a translation penned by scribes of King James
More wisdom in this 19 minute talk than most sermons you’ll ever hear - bravo Sir! 👏
Shackleton has been one of my patron saints of leadership for years. Much of why he did what he did was managing the attitudes of his men.
One of my favorite books. Glad to see you enjoyed it as much as I did. Crazy strong men. I hate how weak it makes me feel, but inspiring how tough and resolute we can be.
You are so right, John! I will, definitely, take my worst day ever compared to what Shackleton and his men went through over the course of their trip to safety! A great leader and a truly great man who saved everyone on the expedition!
I wouldn't mind seeing more of these accounts of men going above and beyond things we'd even consider possible. Pretty awesome!
I read Endurance 3 or 4 years ago. Well written, based on interviews with many of the men.
One of the best books I've ever read. You won't be dissatisfied if you read it.
The book was amazing, and if you get the right copy, it has a bunch of pictures they took along the way too. John was not kidding when he said this was a very abbreviated overview….there is so much more to that amazing story! One of my favorite books of all time.
Great, epic story. Saw a documentary on it a few years back. Also of note, 100 years later, in 2007, an expedition returned to Shackleton's wrecked ship, the Nimrod (quite an apropos name), and retrieved three cases of Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky from the ship's remains.
I think you may have the Nimrod and the Endurance mixed up, Shackleton used the Nimrod first but it never sank under his command. Interesting side note though, they did find the Endurance as well under the sea ice almost perfectly preserved in 2022 107 years after it sank.
The most loyal and valuable employee I ever employed, who literally became my right hand was hired with zero experience for the position but every morning at 5am she served up my coffee with such an amazing attitude and big smile that I realized with her great attitude I could teach her anything and everything. ❤❤❤
Just finished this book a few weeks ago myself. It is an absolutely amazing and inspiring story of some incredible strong and resilient men.
I cannot believe you did this on Shackleton. 20 years ago I watched a documentary on Sir Ernest Shackleton. His story moved me so much, I named my youngest son after him, Shackleton Colt (yes, “Colt” was a reference to the firearm). He is 13 years old as I write this. I hope he lives up to the name in his grit and endurance. But, that contrary to Sir Shackleton, he develops his faith in the one greater than him.
This may be one of my favorite of all the WPS videos - thanks for sharing John
100% Agree, Endurance is one of the few books I've read more than once. Utmost respect for him and the crew.
Good talk on this one John. But as being a fellow that has gone on trips with you, I know you are good at life good at your work, and you made a very good ranger your family is thriving. Your children are very smart from your teachings all in all good show.
A page from a book about enduring hardship and rewards that come on the otherside of that suffering. Bro was a realist. He took the most relatable book for his situation in order to find wisdom and encouragement.
My God man. What an incredible story. Thank you for sharing my good man. God bless you
Great video. I’m here for these book reviews. The book that changed my life was 1776. Learning of the Patriots’ suffering blew my mind. Some were in a war in the winter with no shoes and NO GUN. Crazy what they endured
Read 'Washington A Life'. Mindblowing details about the difficulties of being in the Continental army.
John's talking on Shackleton. This is the quickening. ❤
I'm not religious but his take on God blessing him with suffering or however he phrased it. That was fire !
I read this book many years ago and have recommended it over and over again. No men were lost, only a few toes due to frostbite and gangrene.
Shackleton and his men were hard core dudes! We must inspire to emulate these men!
" We need the tales and exploits of the men that went before us" John Lovell. Gold.....
"A man is given strength so that he can bear his own burdens so well that he has margin to [also help] bear the burdens of others."
Reminds me of John 15:13 - Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (ESV)
I read the book when I was about ten. Great story for any young man to understand the true meaning of courage and tenacity.
I usually fast forward, 5 seconds at a time, through videos in order to skip unnecessary parts...but I can rarely find places to skip through in your vids. I primarily use videos for info and ideas for important homeschool content. Thank you for useful content.
INCREDIBLE! Your breakdown John was aw inspiring. I really hadn’t realized that we as a society of men have reached a “famine of strong masculinity “ I certainly have recognized that with all the wokeness and changes in our society that things have changed and definitely not for the better. That insight of yours alone was like a giant lightbulb in my head making me realize exactly the answer for huge problems today. I just couldn’t quite grasp or or put it into words that that is totally a huge problem. When you mentioned “the world is filled with weak men & society is collapsing because of it”. It reminded me of our courageous men who fought in WW2. Reason being those warriors fought that war came home & got our Country up &. running again. They obtained continued success with life, jobs, being a husband & raising families. I’m certainly not implying every soldier didn’t come home with PTSD or problems but can you imagine that with today’s society of men coming home from that war and making the impact they had with getting a Country growing, going & evolving again? I think it would turn out pretty bad. I won’t make this comment any longer but thank you for your advice, commentary and all the things you do for us. God Bless !
A really good book that I was alone, and it led me to actually purchase it myself. Undaunting Courage. It is about Lewis Meriwether and it even delves into his history and his relations with his family and the Jefferson family. It gives so much insight as to his skills and where they came from, and his lineage. Truly great people of their time
Great Men deserve recognition for there effort
JOHN - !!!!!YOU MISSED THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS STORY!!!!! HERE IS A QUOTE FROM SHACKLETON. > "I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three. I said nothing to my companions on the point, but afterwards Worsley said to me, “Boss, I had a curious feeling on the march that there was another person with us.” < Shackleton was not a man of faith, however, this story is not about him. Credit needs to be given where it is due. This was an impossible journey for men.
Read the book in 2008, was deeply inspired. I loved how he would keep "treats" like canned fruit to boost morale. He also apparently did not allow heavy alcohol consumption.
This book was a game changer, it was required reading at my first unit in the CG.
I spent some time at Ft Wainwright in Alaska. I live in Indiana now and almost every day I politely remind the people I’m around that they are more capable than they make themselves out to be. It seems selling yourself short is the new hotness
I think your assessment of Shackelton is very well done.
I remember this Shackleton's expidetion was a subject we learned about in primary school. And something about Bread Island.
Great share John! Thank you! 🤙🏼✊🏼
Thank you for always providing the positive side of every situation. I was introduced to you through Combat Story but as a Christian, I find it difficult the get past the constant F-bombs from many of these valiant men. I wish to thank you for separating yourself in that regard. Thank you for your incredible service.
God bless you John!
John's part on complainers is on point. Every hardship I've seen others go through. Those who don't constantly complain about their situation do far better than those who do.
Excellent points to ponder. What will profit a man to gain the whole world yet looses his soul
100% Spot On Great Video!!! Good stuff, John.... Thank you
Endurance is a remarkable true story.
Reading about Shackleton- and Mawson, 4 decades ago, helped prepare me mentally for my exploits in the Far North. But only experience and suffering actually makes one both competent and confident.
Unbroken is another amazing read. Will have to read Endurance. Thank you.
Everyone interested in this expedition should check out Frank Worsley, the captain of the Endurance. One of the key people in this expedition and its survival.
Thanks John for all that you and your team do for us!!
Please consider putting a video and book Bible study series together so that we can use it to train our men on leading their families as God would have us to be real men.
Our churches need this desperately.
Thanks from a Pastor
I found the book in a bargain bin over Labor Day about 20 or 25 years ago. Took It home and was riveted to the story. Read it cover to cover in record time. It still is stored in a dominant location on my book shelf.
The other true story I strongly recommend is “Heart of the Sea,” the story that inspired Melville to write “Moby Dick!”
I love it! Thanks John!
John I cannot express how happy I am that you’re telling this story. I believe I recommended it on a couple of your previous videos about book recommendations.
I was recommended this book by Pat McNamara after taking one of his classes. Listened to it in one go on the 30 hour drive home, kept me awake. Incredible book.
I read this book as a young man. It gave me an extraordinary yardstick with which to measure my experiences in life. In comparison, I can safely say I've never had an actual bad day.
Thank You John 👍🇺🇸
Amen. Thank you.
This book has been on my “want to read list” for some time now. You’ve just bumped it up. I’m also asking my teen homeschooler to watch this video and possibly read the book as well.
Loved this impromptu story time! 🤘
Good commentary on an incredible story. What i feel we could dlve into further is how a man of Shackleton's leadership, strength and tenacity would end up dying in debt and largely unsuccessful in life.
I read that 50 years ago. It’s a remarkable story
Loved the book. For another great character study, read “Brute,” by Robert Coram. It’s a biography of Viktor Krulak, one of the most influential military minds of the 20th century who has faded into obscurity.
Thats an incredible story. I started reading How to Win Friends and Influence People because you recommended it in The Warrior Poet Way. Its helped me already in the 1st chapter.
Thanks for reading and giving your thoughts on it. Thanks for the motivation brother.
I'm liking the wild hair in this video, John. Also, thanks for the book recommendation, I'll have to check it out.
Great messsage! Right on. We have become weak as men.
That was deep John, taking the book of suffering. 😮
I think Endurance is the gold standard for a memoir. Excellent review of the amazing account of Sir Ernest Shackleton. John I’m becoming a fan! Just finished The Warrior Poet Way and loved it.
Every book that you’ve recommended has been a great read! Please keep em coming 📚
Shackleton was a mensch. 800 miles in an open boat and on and on. Most of his expeditions failed but he was a leader.
Shackleton was someone I learned about when I was a young boy in the 60’s.
I certainly am no Shackleton, but I’d like to think he has influenced my thinking over the years.
My absolute favorite book is Endurance. Shackleton’s leadership was exemplary. I would suggest “island of the lost” if you want to enjoy another survival story.
A minor correction: it's the Antartica, not the Arctic (on the south pole).
6:21 reminds me of the movie Interstellar.
"It's not possible"
"No, it's necessary"
S2 Underground literally released a video on this same book today lol.
Glad I'm not the only one listening to the S2 underground
Complaining cuts your brain off from pushing yourself to accomplish the hard things that you can actually push yourself to do … ( him going with his gut and pushing some of the other obvious check aside come from the times. All the dudes back in those days were tough, skills can be learned. So as a baseline they’re all tough, looking for good moral and knowing skills can be learned might be why he chose how he did.. but just my assumption ) really good breakdown on the man, voyage etc. your very good at understanding and breaking things down to relay it. 🤜🏼🤛🏼
The book was great. Helps me with my cold plunge and doing hard things. Also read The Song of Roland recently and it definitely makes you think a bit braver and Honorable as well.
S2 Underground just did a review of this book on his channel... love his book club content and intel reports
The Creation Museum has a Shackleton exhibit, pretty amazing.
Great video John. I read this book several years ago for an organizational behavior class, after leaving the Army. You give a great explanation of the story and interesting analysis that I never considered about Shackleton tearing out a page from Job versus the blessings he could have received by keeping the whole book.
It's amazing what people can do with it the right mindset.
Good food for thought. Thank you. Got some work to do!
More book reviews! I enjoy these videos as much as I enjoy the tacticool videos
This was excellent. Keep up the good work, John. We most continue to judge ourselves against the men of history in this way, especially the greatest man that will ever be, Jesus
Really enjoy and missed these inspiring book reviews! Thank you!
I love your view on life. Lets go!
Great take, John!
Just finished this book. Remarkable. Read The Wager next.
I just listened to a documentary about this story about a week ago. Crazy that you were reading a book about it too.
Come on John! God did give them the miracle of strength, grit and resilience.
Buddy Levy's "Empire of Ice and Stone" is another great book of hardships about Arctic Exploration.
Thanks John, I agree with your take on Endurance and Shackleton.
I listened to the audio book about 10 years ago and it is still one of my very favorites. If you came to the studios with a script like this they would laugh at you and say the plot is just unbelievable.
Since you liked this I would recommend "Undaunted Courage," Stephen Ambrose's amazing account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Read it and tell me if you identify with the chief scout/hunter (George Drouillard) that provided about 300#s of meat a day (10#/man) for the expedition. He was usually a day or two ahead of the rest of the expedition. He had the first known one on one encounter by a white man of a grizzly bear (armed with single shot, muzzle loading flintlock rifles) and one day killed 11 elk to feed the party as it followed behind him.
Ambrose is brilliant! He also wrote "Band of Brothers" and pushed hard for the WWII Memorial in DC.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Great read! We did a unit on this story in college as part of a management class. The Endurance is unreal.