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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Exercise will help me lose weight and live longer.
That's what exercise is for.
I need to exercise.
So I'm going to do some climbing.
What climbing taught me over the years is that climbing is valuable for its own sake, that climbing is an ecstasy, that there is a beauty and a poetry to moving well.
And I don't – I mean I'm mediocre, but –
Climbing taught me that there is something so extraordinary in being able to be so sensitive to your body that you can adjust your center of gravity over half an inch and just pull in a little bit more with the lower part of your core and suddenly feet that were impossible to use become perfect to use.
It taught me that there was...
a wonder to like physical detail and precision for its own sake.
And the way it did it was with a scoring system.
Because I mean, I used to hike a lot, but I checked out when I hiked.
I was just like, I'm just going to go up this thing.
And I would go up the thing and I would be thinking about other things or like thinking about philosophy or talking to my friend.
And I would tune out.
Hiking was in some sense too easy to force me to pay attention to my body.
And I also clambered over rocks kind of like casually.
But again, I just took the easy road.
And climbing said the scoring system of climbing is difficulty-based and there are climbs that are rated for difficulty.
And then the scoring system tells you to increase your difficulty level.
And that scoring system actually got me to pay attention to my body because the only way to get up to the next level –
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