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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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The Risk Versus the Consequence Question

I think you call it risk and consequence. I've always thought about it as just the severity versus probability question. If your odds of bombing on the TED stage were probably higher than they are of you falling when you climb. That's totally fair. And there's the sort of misguided feeling that bombing in front of so many people will be almost as bad as dying. Yeah, I mean, you know how embarrassing yourself in public can feel as bad as anything else in life.

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