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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Are You More Afraid of Death Than You Are of Life?

I've been more angstful at various times in life, not necessarily in a bad way. There's sort of a rich history in climbing stories of like old school stories of folks having devastating breakups and then going and so long, big, scary walls. So I've channeled some of that angst over the years too. Like never quite feeling that like, don't care if I live or die. But just being like, this is the perfect time to harness this kind of thing. You know, you have all the feelings anyway and may as well use them for something that you want to do anyway.

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