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Two weeks ago I did a 20-year reunion trip I rafted the Colorado River 227 miles to the Grand Canyon did it 20 years ago with a group of 36 other speakers think about that spent over a week on the Colorado River with a group of speakers if we ever do the trip again we will take a raft of audience just so we got somebody to listen to us now this group knows that speakers are for the most part type-a personalities they are very competitive in every few days we would come to a waterfalls on the side of the river.
we would have a little competition to see who could first penetrate the waterfalls and we came to towards the end of the trip Deer Creek Falls the largest most violent waterfalls on the Colorado River 110 feet high and for about 30 minutes a group of us knocked ourselves silly trying to get in trying to penetrate behind the Falls where there'd be a space big enough for one or two or a small group of people to stand nobody could do it and finally the professional river guide spoke up he said look as far as I know nobody has ever made it in matter-of-fact last trip we got six big people to join arms they tried to walk in in a line they couldn't do it and somebody on our trip said hey what would happen I don't even remember who but they said what would happen if we formed a circle and we locked elbows you know maybe the protection and the strength of an unbroken circle we could penetrate the falls I remember this very vividly because I was one of the six and on my right I locked elbows with a speaker from North Carolina named Al Walker at the time I'll weigh over 400 pounds on my left I locked elbows with a guy from Kansas City named Ed grief ed is 6 3 and 1/2 inches tall learning interesting lesson that.
the Colorado River about commitment and that is when you have locked elbows with people who are bigger than you are you are committed and the reason I tell you this is because the closer we got to the waterfalls the Dumber this idea seemed to me the water was getting deeper it was getting more violent it seemed to be getting colder when we finally stopped we couldn't go any further we were directly underneath Deer Creek Falls water is coming down on my head like an avalanche it's bubbling up underneath my nose I'm ready to leave but edie and I'll have a death grip on my elbows and I know it sounds weird but I began to debate that age-old question how long can the human body go without air and what's even stranger as I recall thinking and if I should suffer brain damage how my friends and relatives be able to tell see I hadn't bring it for a very long time suddenly I could feel the circle start to weak and all of a sudden five of the six of us are rejected we're spit back out in front of the waterfall so we do a quick headcount and now we assume we have killed a member of our trip we figure they are drowned they are in the by the water floating we are searching frantically when the sixth person one of the kids actually came busting out of the falls waving his hands over his head yelling I did it I did it I was in and when he calmed down.
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he explained when we could not go any further as a group of six he looked over his shoulder saw space just big enough for one he released he pushed off the group he came as far as we know the first person ever fully penetrated Deer Creek Falls I came up through competitive athletics competitive academics competitive business and I wish today I could say you know that was me it wasn't but I tell the story for the simple reason that I got just as big a thrill out of being part of the team has put who put him there as if I had done it myself and see what I learned that day and ice cold water up to my nose is a competition is a wonderful thing I believe in competition I started speaking in 4h competition I was a member of the first Toastmasters international collegiate chapter at the Ohio State University in the late 70s I was a charter member I believe in competition but what I learned that down the river is even more important competitions a wonderful thing but you always accomplish more cooperating with people than you do competing against that's the power of relation.
we would have a little competition to see who could first penetrate the waterfalls and we came to towards the end of the trip Deer Creek Falls the largest most violent waterfalls on the Colorado River 110 feet high and for about 30 minutes a group of us knocked ourselves silly trying to get in trying to penetrate behind the Falls where there'd be a space big enough for one or two or a small group of people to stand nobody could do it and finally the professional river guide spoke up he said look as far as I know nobody has ever made it in matter-of-fact last trip we got six big people to join arms they tried to walk in in a line they couldn't do it and somebody on our trip said hey what would happen I don't even remember who but they said what would happen if we formed a circle and we locked elbows you know maybe the protection and the strength of an unbroken circle we could penetrate the falls I remember this very vividly because I was one of the six and on my right I locked elbows with a speaker from North Carolina named Al Walker at the time I'll weigh over 400 pounds on my left I locked elbows with a guy from Kansas City named Ed grief ed is 6 3 and 1/2 inches tall learning interesting lesson that.
the Colorado River about commitment and that is when you have locked elbows with people who are bigger than you are you are committed and the reason I tell you this is because the closer we got to the waterfalls the Dumber this idea seemed to me the water was getting deeper it was getting more violent it seemed to be getting colder when we finally stopped we couldn't go any further we were directly underneath Deer Creek Falls water is coming down on my head like an avalanche it's bubbling up underneath my nose I'm ready to leave but edie and I'll have a death grip on my elbows and I know it sounds weird but I began to debate that age-old question how long can the human body go without air and what's even stranger as I recall thinking and if I should suffer brain damage how my friends and relatives be able to tell see I hadn't bring it for a very long time suddenly I could feel the circle start to weak and all of a sudden five of the six of us are rejected we're spit back out in front of the waterfall so we do a quick headcount and now we assume we have killed a member of our trip we figure they are drowned they are in the by the water floating we are searching frantically when the sixth person one of the kids actually came busting out of the falls waving his hands over his head yelling I did it I did it I was in and when he calmed down.
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he explained when we could not go any further as a group of six he looked over his shoulder saw space just big enough for one he released he pushed off the group he came as far as we know the first person ever fully penetrated Deer Creek Falls I came up through competitive athletics competitive academics competitive business and I wish today I could say you know that was me it wasn't but I tell the story for the simple reason that I got just as big a thrill out of being part of the team has put who put him there as if I had done it myself and see what I learned that day and ice cold water up to my nose is a competition is a wonderful thing I believe in competition I started speaking in 4h competition I was a member of the first Toastmasters international collegiate chapter at the Ohio State University in the late 70s I was a charter member I believe in competition but what I learned that down the river is even more important competitions a wonderful thing but you always accomplish more cooperating with people than you do competing against that's the power of relation.