How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking with Adam Grant
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Free Solo Climbing
If something isn't cutting edge for me then it's actually quite relaxing and almost sort of meditative. On truly cutting edge soloing I often am not experiencing a lot during the climb itself because I'm sort of an autopilot. In some ways is the joy of it that you're totally lost in what you're doing and you're just doing it. That sounds exactly like how psychologists would describe a flow state. Is that what you're experiencing? Do you just have more intense flow while you're climbing than any other activities you do? Yeah, I think so. To be fair, I'm not really skilled enough at anything else to reach the same levels of flow I don't think
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