Alex Honnold

And so it's a nice way to sort of disconnect myself from scrolling aimlessly.

I don't really have the time anymore.

You know, it's like I'd rather play with my kids than for sure scroll.

Uh, you know, I was like, but no, I mean, that's, that's tough.

I mean, I think it'd be hard to be a kid now growing up, like thinking that that's the norm that you like have to be connected, that you have to be capturing everything, you know, documenting and then sharing it and posting and just all this stuff.

I've always felt like the thing about being a professional climber is that you just have to be a good climber.

Like first and foremost, the key to being a professional climber is being able to climb really well.

And like the most important thing is doing the thing.

And I just think when you get caught up in all the posting, sharing, streaming, all the whatever, that's not doing the thing.

But it's easy to conflate them and it's – I don't know.

Yeah.

No, I think it would be really hard.

It's just so hard to actually be good at something.

And this goes back to what we were just talking about with free-souling and perceived risk and all that kind of stuff.

It's just really easy.

To make something look rad, soloing-wise.

Like, you know, I could climb the outside of this building and it would, like, look insane.

It would get tons of likes.

People would think it's cool.

But it's not cutting edge.