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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Climbing Advice - Is There Any Advice You Can Give to Climbers?

Climbers have feelings of fear around certain things because it is a very high consequence activity. You can die doing routine climbs with a rope if certain things go sideways. But separating out when that fear is useful or not is the challenge. "I think most things in life don't have a huge downside to him, so it's like, why not try? I love that"

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