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Leisure and Comfort Zones. Peek Experiences: adventure, travel, rock climbing, ropes courses, back country backpacking, testing ourselves against the weather or natural elements,
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Leisure and Comfort Zones • Peek Experiences: adventure, travel, rock climbing, ropes courses, back country backpacking, testing ourselves against the weather or natural elements, • We take people out of their comfort zones. Why? What are the benefits? What are we trying to accomplish? Why do people do this to themselves or pay us to do it to them?
Personality • A<B<C<T<t • Related to amount of activity • Influences how individuals interpret different types of experiences • Chemical explanation (dopamine)
What are the Benefits? • Self esteem • Bragging rights • feel good • natural high • death wish/life wish • deadly habits • substitutability
Positive risk taking • 1. Voluntary control • 2. Aware of consequences • 3. Minimize the dangers