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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking with Adam Grant

How to Be a Better Human

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Is There a Real Threat When You're on a Wall?

I think looking back on it now, I see it more as a gradual erosion of my mental state. There were a series of missteps where I got slightly off-rooted at a certain point. It's funny to hear you say that with reappraising because I don't know the terms for it but I often talk about that with fear. And I'm like, why don't people treat fear the same way they treat hunger?

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