Jobs, "not to stay in the comfort zone" - an interview with Pavel Makarov

Paul, how you came up with the idea to combine office style and extreme?

I myself have long been a clerk, worked in a large corporation for the sale of aircraft. Everything connected with the corporate life, my friends and relatives.

Cool when you have an interesting job, you samorealizueshsya and do not forget about the real world in which there is a place for travel, sports and adventure.

Not cool when wear his trousers unloved work. Then you go home by the same route, grated flops on a sofa, you open a bottle of beer and stuck in the telly. And so day after day, month after month.

I want people to remember that the world is filled with not only the pictures on the TV and the monitor, and changed their lives, letting in her true emotions and adventures.

What you need to hold such a crazy activity?

One to conduct such a project difficult. Sometimes, in order to realize some activity, we need a whole team. For example, we have recently returned from the Crimea, where realized the crazy thing - SKYSURFING. Stretched between two rocks at a height of 300 meters of rope and rode on it in a homemade surf, and then jumped down with a parachute.

At the same time, dozens of people were involved: photographers, videographers, the operator quadrocopter, skydivers, beysdzhampery, roupdzhampery climbers.

You must have the equipment not less than that of the filmmakers?

For photo and video use:

• Sony Alpha 77 and GoPro Hero chamber;
• iPhone 5 phone;
• quadrocopter DJI Phantom 4.

Well, all sorts of bells and whistles to it.

This is enough to remove any action scene and take photographs. I treat the material in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom; on your phone using VSCO and Snapseed. The rollers are mounted in Final Cut Pro.

How many countries have you traveled?

Seventy. My dream is to visit all the countries of the world. But there are so many interesting locations, which, it seems to me, and life is not enough to explore everything.

Tell me about the most vivid journey today?

One of the most extreme and emotional was traveling by car from Moscow to Gambia. The route length of 13,000 kilometers passed through 15 countries.

We got into a lot of troubles, but still conquered the highest point in West Africa - the mountain Toubkal, ride of snowboarding in the Sahara desert, and even spent the night on the banks of the malarial swamps in Mauritania.

How do you plan to travel? What services and programs you use?

Any of my journey - a detailed study. For example, for a trip to Gambia prepared six months: have studied routes, making a visa, the monitor border crossings, read the reports of Russian and foreign travelers, studied cultural and national characteristics of the residents of different countries have booked accommodation, looking for sports and extreme activities, tracked the political situation. All this is very important.

Travel Planning - 50% of its success.

Here's my driver license.

• Not bookable hotels. Just the same evening look through Booking.com or Airbnb, where space is available. If not, I do not breaks off overnight in a tent or car.
• I do all visas in advance in Moscow, but sometimes it is easier to obtain in the neighboring countries. For example, we wanted to go to the Gambia through Mali, but in the Russian embassy Mali we were denied due to a series of terrorist acts in the country. For fun, we visited the Malian embassy in Mauritania, and there were willing to make us a visa in Mali for five minutes.
• Landmark using «Google Maps", "Apple's Maps" or "2GIS". These services can be used offline. By the way, the useful life hacking, if you are traveling to an unfamiliar area by car, lay in Google route from the hotel, where there is Wi-Fi, and then use the navigation without mobile communication. I drove a third of Latin America - more than 13 000 kilometers.

Do you have any life hacking, like to travel a lot and not go broke?

You can save on almost everything: on accommodation, flights, food, movements.

At age 18, when I had no money, I went hitchhiking through Europe. With him I had about 100 euros, most of which I spent on souvenirs. Lived in the tent moved hitch, I bought pasta 20 cents and preparing them for the burner.

In the era of gadgets to save the phone helps a lot. It can help you find someone to stay on kauchsorfinguBuy cheap ticket to the low-cost airlines, find travel companions in BlaBlaCar and so on.

How do you feel about downshifting and throwing ever people work for your project?

If the goal rejection of civilization - fooling around and smoke dope in Goa, then the negative.

If a person throws unloved work to get out of your comfort zone, change yourself and your life, then it's great. During a trip to the Gambia to two members of our team are so blown away by a drive trip, which they called the authorities in Moscow and said that they are dismissed.

I advise all readers Layfhakera not to stay in the comfort zone.

Life begins where ends comfort zone.

Neil Walsh

If you feel that you are stuck in a routine, urgent to change something!