Alex Honnold

It's always better to take a step than to not take a step.

You know, that's, yeah.

I mean, that's how I've always felt with all these things.

You're like, well, you might as well go out and do the thing.

Like, do something.

You remember at the beginning, I was like, you don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Like, you do the good thing, you know, because it's like, don't let perfectionism cripple you.

You know, it's like, that's why I think, you know, Type A101, if that's kind of like your perfect goal, it's like, don't let that hold you back from going out and climbing Type A4 or Type A8 or, you know, like some of the surrounding little buildings, because it's like, practice on what you can.

I mean, this is what I'm saying about having lots of little goals is that I would actually say that if you repeat good enough every once in a while, some of those are great, actually, but you just don't totally know.

You know, I noticed that a lot, like in my climbing life, like in the long arc of climbing, there are tons of things I did in Yosemite where like in a season I'd have like five or six goals in Yosemite.

I do all the things.

And one of them, for whatever reason, would wind up being like, that's rad.

And it would, you know, like makes climbing news and things like that.

And the other ones, you know, maybe less so.

But you don't totally know ahead of time which ones are cool or not and which ones are going to stand the test of time.

At one point in the not-too-distant past, I held a speed record on every major formation in Yosemite.

Now a few of them have been broken over time.

But those are the kinds of things where you never really know how long those types of records will last because sometimes you do them and then your friend comes and breaks it the next season and you're like, cool, and you go back and forth and it's all part of a fun game.

And then some of them you've set a speed record and it lasts for like 15 years.

You're sort of like, oh, I didn't realize that this was going to be like such a milestone, you know?