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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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Why Not Have Both?

I was a diver. I wasn't, I wasn't even willing to take enough risk to compete on platform. And that really held me back as a diver. What would you say to somebody like me who is still afraid of some pretty basic challenges in a sport? Well, if it's something that you're vaguely afraid of, but actually never happens or is incredibly unlikely, then you sort of have to work on ways to set that aside.

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