Facing Fear with Alex Honnold | ReThinking with Adam Grant
Climbing Gold
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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. 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 soloing 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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