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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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Are You More Fearful of Death Than of Life?

I've been more angstful at various times in life and not necessarily in a bad way. But I've often tried to sort of harness that angst or that general feeling of like, I should be doing more or achieving or whatever. So far, no changes in how I feel about risk and managing risk and all my climbing. You know, it's not as if I'm just rolling the dice and like hoping that it works out.

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