Alex Honnold

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Science Friday · How extreme athletes like Alex Honnold keep their cool · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

Because sometimes you are actually in danger of breaking a hold and falling to your death.

And if the rock quality is low, then you probably should be a lot more careful and you have a reason to be scared.

So I think being rational about it and sort of understanding where your fear is coming from is the first step.

And then ideally you make a sort of well-informed decision as to whether or not you want to push forward in the face of, you know, push through your fear or not.

Breaking the headline, you hypnotize Olympians into performing at a higher level.

Yeah, I always say, like, literally exactly that same answer.

I've talked about exactly that quite a lot.

I know, that's why you're a doctor.

No, actually, that was very validating, because I'm like, that's exactly the process that I've always used to talk about visualization.

I mean, I guess the only difference I would add for climbing is like when I visualize as a climber, I mean, part of it is imagining the actual task itself.

So remembering the movement, like left hand goes here, right hand goes there.

Here's how I move.

But then for me, part of visualizing is also like you were saying, imagining the mental component of it.

Like, will it be scary if I put my foot there?

Like if I look down and I see 2000 feet of air underneath that foothold, like, is that going to be scary?

And this is one thing to remember how to do it.

It's another thing to imagine how it's going to feel when you're doing it.

And I think that's a really important component of visualization.

Yeah, actually, it's interesting you say that because I just did a gym event.

So this is like nothing compared to a live TV thing or like the Olympics or anything.

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