Language & Travel Hacking #41 Benny Lewis on How Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro is Like Learning Languages
Mar 15, 2021
53:41
Elizabeth interviews Benny about his experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and how it parallels learning a language.
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Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
- Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and achieving a travel dream
- Giving up on language learning
- The compare and despair trap
- Being okay with mistakes
- Letting go of other people’s judgements
- Finding the silver lining
- How focusing on the end goal blinds you to the day to day progress
- The importance of asking questions and getting an outside perspective
- Why you make sure you have good people behind you
Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
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