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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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Climbing Isn't Helping Anyone

Climbing has a lot of meaning, but it's not as obvious to me who benefits from it or who it helps. That's the part that puzzles me, the contribution part. The way that you do this is maybe reflective of a distinction that psychologists make when they study values between benevolence and universalism. I care about projects that help populations and that help the global environment," he says.

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