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Alex Honnold

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2161 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And it's insane.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And I was like, that's so cool.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And I got all fired up about it.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And so I come out of work thing, you know, quote unquote work things like that.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And I'm like energized and excited to learn and grow, you know, push myself.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And I'm kind of like, that's the type of work that I want to do as much as possible.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And then there are other kinds of things where, you know, I'll do like corporate speaking or something where you show up at a conference and you just like,

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

get ground down you know when you leave and you go back to your hotel and all you can do is just like lie there on the bed for an hour being like oh what am I doing with my life you know you feel like kind of wrecked so it's like if you can focus on the work where you come out of it feeling inspired and like excited to try hard versus the work that makes you

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

want to like mindlessly scroll on something for hours you know i mean because sometimes you're just like oh i'm just so over it yeah someone said that to me in my career they said like whenever you find domains that make you feel expansive like totally you should double down on those domains because you're that's the path to master you're going to be able to continue yeah because you can just keep pushing super hard in that yeah thankfully for climbing that's always just been added like i just freaking love climbing it's so great you should do it more

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

I was like, hopefully it's not too much copycatting, but...

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

Yeah, we got some crazy numbers from Netflix that I think half of people or more than half of people who have a Netflix subscription in Taiwan watch the building climb.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

It's like in Taiwan, it was like insane.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

Like literally everybody watched.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

It's such a singular striking building in Taipei.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

It's like a total national icon.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

It's insane.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

People are always like, you know, what's your next big thing?

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And I'm kind of like, you know, if you just focus on doing lots of little things all the time, occasionally the big things just happen.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

And you can't totally know ahead of time.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

Explain that to me.