C. Thi Nguyen

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.