C. Thi Nguyen
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Podcast Appearances
Rock climbing is one of the best things that's ever happened to me in my life.
And I think it's particularly like beautiful to me and interesting to me because I'm so bad at it.
I mean, part of what happened was I was one of these people, I grew up playing computer games and reading and I was like,
Life of the mind, screw the body.
And I hated everything about embodiment.
And I started to realize it was a problem.
I did some yoga.
And then at one point, I... Actually, what happened first was I tried to learn to surf.
And I found out that seasick asthmatics should not try to surf.
It's very deadly.
And then I tried climbing.
And I thought climbing was dumb.
So, I had this image in my mind where climbing was like...
Muscle bros screaming like Arnold Schwarzenegger, just like hauling himself.
I thought it was like a pure muscle thing.
And I found out it was completely wrong.
That rock climbing is this like delicate balance sport.
What I found out was that it was...
kind of like solving logic puzzles with your body in yoga, right?
Like, you have to find your way through.