Episode #306 Steve Magness-The Surprising Science of Real Toughness
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
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The Free Solo Climber, Alex Donald
Alex honnell is a legend in rock climbing. He's got a great documentary free solo, about climbing the three thousand basily flat a rock face l capitan. A scientist stuck alex donald in fmar f mori machine to study his brain and then present thim with all of these pictures images vidios that are essentially designed to evoke fear or dis ust Or some sort of extreme emotional reaction. And what happened is that areasi, all thes, they show all these threatening things, and the area doesn't light up. It stays silent. Other areas of the brain, around the pre frontal cortex, others kindof light up. Our sensitivity to threats
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