How Alex Honnold Trains His Mind to Stay Calm 3,000 Feet Above Ground
25 June - 1 hour 39 minsHow do you stay calm and focused when you’re 3,000 feet off the ground — with no ropes, no safety lines, and no room for error?
Legendary climber and free soloist Alex Honnold returns to The Finding Mastery Podcast for a raw, insightful conversation about mindset, being great with fear, and what it means to live at the edge of human performance.
Alex is best known for his historic, ropeless ascent of El Capitan — captured in the Oscar-winning film Free Solo (which you should watch if you haven’t seen it yet). But in this episode, we go far beyond climbing.
We explore:
How Alex manages fear, consequence, and risk with rare mental clarityWhat it takes to perform under pressure — and when t...
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