How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking with Adam Grant
How to Be a Better Human
Free-Soling
I've always thought about it as just the severity versus probability question. Your odds of bombing on the TED stage were probably higher than they are of you falling when you climb. And there's the sort of misguided feeling that bombing in front of so many people will be almost as bad as dying. But most of the free-soling I've done, I'm totally alone. So if I feel at all uncomfortable, I can just back down and there's no pressure,. There's no expectation. It's just totally internal.
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