Cory Richards

It never really does, at least in my experience. It never fully helps you resolve that internal turmoil. It gives it a vehicle to express, but it doesn't necessarily resolve it, if that makes sense.

Oh, by leaps and bounds. Mental challenges are always the harder thing in my experience because they're more complicated. There's this very hard reality of climbing mountains or descending rivers in Africa. It's a container. And there's the physical world that you're moving through where in your mind, it's a whole universe unto itself. So the barriers and boundaries in there are much more...

Oh, by leaps and bounds. Mental challenges are always the harder thing in my experience because they're more complicated. There's this very hard reality of climbing mountains or descending rivers in Africa. It's a container. And there's the physical world that you're moving through where in your mind, it's a whole universe unto itself. So the barriers and boundaries in there are much more...

Oh, by leaps and bounds. Mental challenges are always the harder thing in my experience because they're more complicated. There's this very hard reality of climbing mountains or descending rivers in Africa. It's a container. And there's the physical world that you're moving through where in your mind, it's a whole universe unto itself. So the barriers and boundaries in there are much more...

It's very clear. It's very delineated.

It's very clear. It's very delineated.

It's very clear. It's very delineated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just nebulous. Yeah. Like, how do you even define growth? The only way that I've found to define growth is messy. It's not clear, and you're backsliding, and you're regressing and devolving at times, and that feels like you're going backwards, but it's always forward motion, but it's just messy. It's just a messy, messy process.

It's just nebulous. Yeah. Like, how do you even define growth? The only way that I've found to define growth is messy. It's not clear, and you're backsliding, and you're regressing and devolving at times, and that feels like you're going backwards, but it's always forward motion, but it's just messy. It's just a messy, messy process.

It's just nebulous. Yeah. Like, how do you even define growth? The only way that I've found to define growth is messy. It's not clear, and you're backsliding, and you're regressing and devolving at times, and that feels like you're going backwards, but it's always forward motion, but it's just messy. It's just a messy, messy process.

I mean, in some ways it was almost amplified by those environments. Because when it's so quiet externally, you're made aware of how loud it is internally, right? And so I could find moments of calm and I could find moments of peace, but oftentimes that was when I was engaged with doing something very hard because it demanded a reduction of that noise inside my mind simply to survive.

I mean, in some ways it was almost amplified by those environments. Because when it's so quiet externally, you're made aware of how loud it is internally, right? And so I could find moments of calm and I could find moments of peace, but oftentimes that was when I was engaged with doing something very hard because it demanded a reduction of that noise inside my mind simply to survive.

I mean, in some ways it was almost amplified by those environments. Because when it's so quiet externally, you're made aware of how loud it is internally, right? And so I could find moments of calm and I could find moments of peace, but oftentimes that was when I was engaged with doing something very hard because it demanded a reduction of that noise inside my mind simply to survive.

You get very focused. It's like not dying. Exactly. How to not die.

You get very focused. It's like not dying. Exactly. How to not die.

You get very focused. It's like not dying. Exactly. How to not die.

Whether it's a metaphorical mountain or not, anytime we're in survival mode, we're going to have an element of flow. And that is because we're uniquely programmed to survive. The funny thing about survival that I've found is that it's reaction-based. versus resilience, which is a response, right?