Alex Honnold
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's sort of like, oh, wow, she puts a lot into it and therefore gets a lot out of it for herself.
I think they love to see the effort.
I mean, the accomplishment, of course, but you love seeing somebody work really hard at something, try really hard, face their fears, overcome, and then ideally achieve something.
But I think it's the effort that's so inspiring.
I mean, at least personally, I love to see other people try that hard because it's a reminder that I can try that hard if I want to.
The Rocky training montage.
That's the best part of the movie.
I mean, a lot of those films, the best part is the training montage where it's like cuts to the person working really, really hard for a long time and like getting swole.
And then, then you get to the actual, then doing the thing and then doing the thing is, is cool.
But it's like them getting ready to do the thing is often the part that you're like, that's so awesome.
No feet.
But it's probably the dangling from your fingertips that I think a non-climber would β
I mean, also, I mean, I think that's the type of thing that a non-climber just can't even interface with.
Like, they just can't hang from an edge.
You know, it's like from a small, it's like the training your fingertip type stuff.
Yeah, I mean, I think that, though, I mean, now there have been so many mainstream climbing things that I think people have a sense that that's what it is.
You, like, dangle on tiny edges and do pull-ups and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, actually, I was immediately like, so should I be going faster when I do pull-ups?
Because I've been like doing one arms at the end of a session, but like my one arms are pretty slow.