
How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear
Worklife with Adam Grant
Detecting a Threat in a Life and Death Situation
"I think actually what I've done is trained my brain to detect threats more acutely, you know, actual threats," he says. "To me, it seemed perfectly natural that my amygdala wouldn't trigger while looking at pictures while laying in a safe metal tube."
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