Alex Honnold

So basically everything I've ever climbed is logged with, you know, difficulty and times and whatever.

And so I'm constantly trying to take things as a climber, you know, just like to do new climbs that I haven't done before.

And so, I mean, I think like actually my day of climbing yesterday could be a good example of this.

So yesterday my wife and I dropped off our older daughter at school, went to the cliff, uh, did a day of sport climbing, um, and then picked up our daughter on the way home.

It's like a perfect day like that where you can kind of like make it all work.

And I'm not going to be able to go to that cliff very often this season just because of travel and work and life basically.

Um,

So I don't want to have any big project there because I just won't have time to do it.

I'm trying to set my goals appropriately where I'm like, oh, there's no point in trying to do something that would take me a month or two to achieve if I only have three days.

And so I had a goal for that day of trying to do this very particular little project

combination of routes that i hadn't done before it's just something new something interesting it's not that hard but then we got there and it was it was like the worst condition it was like 86 degrees when you parked the car and so you know it's like you're trying to work out and like horrendously hot and it was also that kind of monsoony so it's very humid so we got to the wall and it's like disgusting and i was kind of like well you know it's a training day like whatever and so i tried to do this new combination of routes ultimately i failed on i felt the very freaking top of the wall was like so maxed and didn't do it uh i'll probably get a chance to go back on monday and hope and i'll for sure do it then

Um, but you know, it's like a very small goal.

Like this isn't cutting edge, like big, this isn't, this isn't even cool at all.

Like my friends won't even care.

Like they'll think it's stupid, but, but it's nice for me to have a reason for me to try my hardest for that particular day of climbing.

And I think that the big goals come as a result of all those little things, you know, like if day by day, you're constantly doing something that's a little bit new, a little bit different, a little bit harder, you know, whatever seems like the appropriate challenge for that day.

I think that

looking back at 20 years of climbing outside nonstop, that the big things have just come as a natural outgrowth of all those little things.

You do like enough little things all the time.

And then every once in a while,