Gary O'Reilly

She is without a doubt one of our favorites.

Fascinating guest, Alex Honnold.

Fascinating.

Because all of the achievement and the modesty was just, the humility was amazing.

Yes.

Okay.

But do you get a point where fear can almost paralyze or does paralyze a person?

If you're not already this person that would go and do something adventurous, how do you sort of push your own envelope when it comes to fear?

Are there techniques and skills?

So when Alex was talking about, you know what, if I fall from 50 feet, it's the same as falling from 1,000 feet.

How is he dealing with that fear aspect?

How has he cognitively arranged himself?

I say it kind of made it smaller, less of a threat.

To allow it to just be in your head and start to eat away at you.

So when you say about dialing up, dialing down, if you have certain areas of the brain that you were talking about, the hippocampus that was damaged in one patient, is there a way to circumnavigate that you as a person can control yourself with a dial up, dial down sort of scenario?

I wasn't talking about me.

He looks a lot like that.

You've expanded your comfort zone.

So normally what might stress you 10 years ago, you've had that much experience now.

When it falls within that space, that's your comfort zone.