C. Thi Nguyen

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3,183 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 7 Jul

C. Thi Nguyen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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When I am too intense about rock climbing, I lose the joys I have in it.

But when I'm super intense about fly fishing, that's when I get...

The gateway to this mental magic state that is just pure mental flow joined with a river or something magic.

Yeah, it's super complicated and messy.

One of the interesting things about rock climbing for me was the difficulty scale.

Just being super focused on the difficulty scale was amazing for me for about five years.

So I think when I was not very physically apt, if I didn't try to...

if I just kind of meandered around and didn't care much about difficulty, I didn't have to focus on my body.

And the goal of climbing harder climbs

because it made me focus on my body and pay more attention to my body actually unlocked a lot of like pleasure and movement and joy.

And so that scoring system was actually super useful for a good amount of time.

And then at some point I just hit like my physical peak.

Like I'm not that athletic and I now I'm a parent.

I just don't have that much time.

And then once I like hit it to blow, the difficulty scale wasn't working for me anymore.

And I,

I got pretty unhappy and then I had to change.

So now I actually pursue my own weird private vision of like doing climbs as elegantly as I can, which is not very portable.

But also I think the thing I have to admit is I couldn't have gotten there without climbing.

the scoring, engaging in the scoring system as given for a good amount of time.

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