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It drives me crazy that nobody else
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thinks about risk in this way.
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>> Oh, no. No, no, no. Why?
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>> People look at my life and they're like,
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"Well, you're crazy. You're such a risk
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taker." Well, at least I'm taking the
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risks that I'm choosing. Because think
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of all the people that like go out
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partying every weekend and they get
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buzzed and they drive home. And even
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sedendary people who are like, "Well, I
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don't take risk. I stay home and I play
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video games." No, you're at a much
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higher risk of heart disease. Like,
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they're taking all kinds of risk that
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they're not actually choosing to take
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and you're still going to freaking die
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either way. So, you might as well take
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smart, calculated risks and do all the
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things that you want to do and at least
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die happy when you go.
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>> He's done it. Alice Arnold has made
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history again.
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>> But the conclusion that a lot of people
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have arrived at is that you don't
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experience fear because when they look
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at these two brain scans, your amydala
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is lighting up less when you're shown
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scary images. I I actually hate all the
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brain stuff because people always put me
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in this box. They're like, "Well, you're
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different." And I'm like, "Well, not
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really. Like, I'm a middle class
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suburban kid. Nobody in my family is
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athletic. I just after 20 years of
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climbing 5 days a week and being really
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freaking scared, I respond differently
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than an average person." And there was
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tons of emotional turmoil throughout it.
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Periods where you're just like I'm
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trying so hard and I'm just like not as
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good as I want to be. You know, I was
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like living in a car. I had like a
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couple hundred bucks a month for 10
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years. Like that's challenging, but you
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just can't master a craft overnight.
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>> I guess that's what people don't see.
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And so how do you create the conditions
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to out persist other people? And then in
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all your career, when is the moment
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where you were most scared?
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>> On an expedition to Antarctica. I kept
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hoping that it's going to get better and
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it just kept getting worse.
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>> Do you have a conversation with your
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partner before you go and do something
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like this? Because she wrote a letter.
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>> Oh gosh. This is your worst nightmare,
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she said.