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Alex Honnold

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first: 2016-05-17
most recent: 2016-05-17
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“Years of the government might extend my ambition a little bit. But thanks very much. I really appreciate it. No, thanks for having me. Pleasure.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was just facebook.com/slash alex Arnold, I think. But if you just search for it, it's like a fan page, it's like several hundred thousand people or whatever. NOLD. Yeah.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, my most personal outlet is probably my Facebook fan page. I'm like constantly posting stuff that I care about and it's all managed by me. And so it's just like me posting articles that I think are interesting. It's kind of like a combination of the climbing stuff that I'm into and then like the environmental stuff that I'm into. Basically I post the environmental stuff as all the stuff I care about and then I post just enough climbing so that everyone doesn't leave.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But yeah, I'm just keeping it real. Keeping it real. No, I mean, I'd like to think that my friends would still call me a good person, you know, that I'm still like.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I mean, if you had to guess. Well, I mean, the thing I'm pretty frank, I think, and some people can, you know, I can kind of be a dick sometimes. And though I just consider that being very honest, you know.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I was like, I can't self describe as compassionate because none of my friends would agree, you know. Because the thing is, I'm not like nice to my friends on a one-on-one level. I'm not like a super kind person, I don't think. But definitely in the grander sense, I mean, I'm trying to make, I aspire to make the world a better place and like a more just world, you know?”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the first thing that comes to mind is in high school, I was reading a bunch of Ayn Rand or Ayn Rand, whatever, you know, like objectivist, all super black and white, basically like F the poor people should work harder, they should try harder. And now as a 30-year-old, I'm basically like all about trying to help the poor, trying to help the planet in different ways, trying to make the world a better place. It's like full 180 from, you know, the black and white that I was into in high school. And then, yeah, I mean, I've had massive changes on all those kinds of things. I mean, I used to be way more harsh, you know, in like my political views are like way further left now. I'm just way more, I mean, I'm a lot more compassionate now. I feel like, though, it's funny not so much on a personal level because I don't really care, but on like a societal level, I'm a lot more compassionate.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I mean, even that's really complicated There are places in the world where it makes sense to raise animals because you can't raise anything else, you can't grow crops, you know. Whatever. And”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it requires like a whole. And even then, it's like, it's not to say that meat is fundamentally bad. It's like how you get it, where it's from, what you're supporting. I mean, you know, it's like a whole.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I don't know. I mean, like, just like, I don't know, environmental propaganda or something. Or, like, the meato. I'm like pretty stoked on all the vegetarian type of stuff now just because it's such an easy way to minimize your impact on the planet. And it's just, you know, I mean, it just solves so many different environmental issues. But I don't know. But the thing is, a billboard is not the best way to just say, don't eat meat because it's like it's obviously a lot more complicated than that and nobody's going to read that and be like, oh, okay, I'll stop. It's like.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, no, I mean, friends hang out in my van for sure. I mean, a lot of my climbing friends would be staying in a tent normally or staying wherever. So, I mean, for them, it's a big step up to hang out in the van. It's like climate controlled. It's like sheltered. You can cook on a nice stove. It's lit. I mean, it's a nice place to hang out in the evenings.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, with a pee bottle, you just know when you open the bottle, you're like, oh, I shouldn't drink this. But also, I have systems with where things go, and you know, I'm never going to accidentally drink my pee bottle.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no. Like a Nalgene. No, I use like a two liter bottle, just like some random plastic bottle. I basically use it over and over until it's like this is repulsive and then I recycle it and then I move on to another. But it's actually kind of at this natural, it's like a natural life cycle because I'll use the same water bottle for climbing. It'll just be like some random two-liter bottle that's in my bag for like months. But then eventually it starts to get disgusting or just kind of, you know, a little gross. And so then I'm like, well, that becomes the pea bottle. And then I get another bottle.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I have a pee bottle. I mean, I've used a bottle forever. And actually, the thing is when you get used to using a pee bottle all the time, when I pull into a grocery store or something, I always just pee in my bottle before I go into it, you know, because you're like, why would I ever go and find some like dank public bathroom when I can just use my bottle?”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I mean, maybe have a family or something or at least like a solid partner something going on. I think I'd like to maybe own a home or have a place that I'm kind of living, like more of a solid home base, just because living in a van is great, but, you know, at a certain point, you're like, man, it's nice to have a bathroom. I'm having a shower of things.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Demolish the thing with desserts too I don't really buy dessert much because if I buy it I just eat it all immediately like I'm terrible with moderation so I generally don't have any dessert in the van and then when I do I just eat it all”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do one line hours of exercise, one line, any additional strength training type stuff or like the stretching I've been doing recently, and then one line diet, which is like eight well, eight poorly, eight so, or like, you know, too many cookies, like whatever, things like that.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well twenty is still slightly too old, but like my eighteen year old self, I would just tell, I would say just not bother going to college at all. Like the year that I spent at Berkeley was the total waste of my time, basically. Not because there's anything wrong with Berkeley, but because I just wasn't passionate about what I was studying and there's no, there was no point in me grinding out a year of studies that I didn't care about that, you know, I should have just gone climbing. Because, I mean, that's what I really cared about. And that's what's been so funny over the years is that with climbing, you know, I have no problem putting in, you know, 20 to 40 hours a week every week all year into climbing. And I mean, that's a fair amount. I've been keeping a training journal. So I have like sort of hours of exercise. And last year, I counted up at the end at the new year. And I basically averaged like 27 hours a week of exercise every week last year, which is, you know, like, I think that's kind of comparable to other. I mean, you would know more than me, but other sports, like for training volume. But I mean, and then when you think that I've probably been doing that for the last 10 years that I've been on the road.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'd probably still be like one of the more well-rounded climbers in America, even without the free soloing. But it's also sort of overshadowed by the like, oh my God, he's ropless. And it's funny because I only do, you know, a handful of solos a year if that. And then I spend the whole rest of the year climbing with partners in ropes and like normal climbing with my friends, just like doing all kinds of interesting things and expeditions and whatever. And yet it still just comes down to like, whoa, free soling. But, you know, I'm fine with that because at least I could go climb all the time.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I mean, I guess one within climbing, I'd say that because I'm known as a free soloist, I'm known for the ropeless climbing, and that's like what you'll see online and, you know, all the videos and all that. But I'd probably still be a professional climber even if I didn't free solo at all. Like right now, I hold the speed record on pretty much every major formation in Yosemite, you know, all the different faces, like all the classic roots. I mean, I think that's basically true. And so.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If I couldn't climb, I don't know. I have a lot of respect for Ultra Runners. I think because they sort of interact with the landscape in the same way that I kind of like to, you know, like something like the Ultra Tour Mont Blanc, when you run all the way around the Montblanc Massif, I mean, that's pretty cool. And I would love to be able to do things like that, but I just don't really, I can't run that well. But the thing is that I really love running mountain ridge lines and things. And then that quickly becomes actual rock climbing. And so I'm like, well, it's like, I don't know. But yeah, ultra running is pretty awesome. I don't know. I could be into like big mountain skiing too. But see, it all sort of gravitates back towards mountains. And I'm like, well, that's basically climbing.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not totally sure. I mean, I think for me it would require more fingerboarding or hangboarding, like basically just focusing more on finger strength, because I think as a climber, that's probably what I'm worst at is just like the pure strength holding on to things, but also I think for me it would just require more dedicated focused hard climbing for the year. Right now I'm climbing in Yosemite. And in my whole season of climbing Yosemite, I won't do a single hard move, basically, you know, at the physical limit of like what I can actually pull on because I'm climbing these great big walls and I'm trying to climb them quickly and sometime I'm climbing them ropeless. But anyway, I'm doing them in all these styles that just doesn't help you pull harder. And so if I wanted to climb harder grades, I would have to just pull harder.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I might devote a year or two to actually trying to climb hard because I'd love to climb the French grade 9A, which is 14D in US grades. It's just sort of like a meaningful benchmark grade that if I ever climb 9A, I'd be like, respect. Like, I'm good. That's hard enough for me.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The hardest thing in the world is 15C, but only two people have climbed that. But there are a lot of people climbing like 15A and 15Bish now. And so climbing like 14 B or C is like, you know, respectable, but a lot of people can do that like first try and not a lot, but a handful of people can climb that first try and no problem. It's like trivial for them. So, you know, I mean, it's not, it's by no means world standard, but, you know, it's solid. But so I think that for me, that sort of my natural plateau, like, that's kind of what I can climb without having to train much to climb harder, you know, because the thing is I spend a lot of my year doing adventure trips and expeditions and doing stuff through my foundation and going to Angola last year. I mean, trips like that that do not help your fitness at all, like they won't help you climb harder, but they definitely make you a more well-rounded climber and probably a better person and more interesting. You get to do fun stuff. And so, you know, I've sort of been content being plateaued at mid-514 for a long time. Though I could see at some point in my life.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which probably means she hasn't got past the 511 plateau. Yeah, probably. She's just like mired in 5'11 land. No, so I've basically I pretty much progressed steadily to about mid five hundred fourteen, so like fourteen B or C, and I've basically been plateaued there for like seven or ten years or something. I feel like I've sort of plateaued there because I'm at the point, I mean, because mid-514 is definitely a fairly high level of climbing, though it's by no means elite by the world standard anymore. Like, that's not super hard.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you're all jacked up on sugar from IST stuff, and then you're in the caffeine, who knows? Yeah, totally. There's like a lot going on physiologically, and it's hard to differentiate what the... The finer points are”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, though I don't have, I just don't like coffee, and I don't really like tea, but I don't have any problem with caffeine. I don't really even notice caffeine, I don't think, that much because you get it in shop blocks and gels and gooe and whatever all the little energy products. Some of them have caffeine and some don't. And I don't feel like I notice an effect either way.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The varietals of food. Yeah, the fears of it. Yeah, when you experience enough fear in your life, you're like, oh, now I can sort of differentiate between all the different types. Do you?”
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“But sometimes that doesn't matter. I mean, sometimes it does, and you need to be like, oh, you know, I'm about to die like I should watch out for that. But a lot of times, I mean, you should be able to just set that for your side and just do exactly what you're supposed to be doing.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, like hungry. You know, when you're really hungry, you're not like, oh God, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry. And they're just like, oh, I'll eat lunch in two hours. You know, and I feel like fear to some extent should be the same way where you can just register like, oh, I'm feeling fear right now.”
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“I don't know exactly. I mean, so I've gained a lot from being a professional climber, like having to go and give talks and do the whole work side of climbing. I mean, that's really helped me grow as a person and feel comfortable doing public speaking and all that kind of stuff. Though I think from the actual climbing itself, maybe the most useful thing I've gotten has been sort of being able to differentiate risk and consequence and fear and like all these different things and sort of being able to separate my feelings from what's actually happening, but is that fear justified because I'm actually in danger or is that totally irrational fear that I should just squish and like move forward with something? And I don't know. I mean, I feel like climbing has sort of helped me understand the different things that are going on there. You know, whereas I feel like a lot of people are just like, oh, I'm afraid. And then they're just like, oh, God, I'm afraid, you know, but sometimes like, I mean, fear shouldn't necessarily control you anymore than anything else.”
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“Alex find this to be the case. Well, I've climbed for my entire life, so I mean, maybe it explains tremendous libido. I mean, is that for real? That's a real question, I guess. I don't know. But I mean, that's probably true of anybody who's staying active and staying fit. You know, you're just like, that's the way your body's supposed to work.”
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“Yeah, I mean, no question. I mean, the last fan that I bought a $10,000 van and lived in it for 10 years. And then this new van that I bought, it's the new van, so it's obviously a bit pricier, but it's pretty awesome. And I'll probably live in it for another 10 years. Well, maybe not actually live in it, but I'll be based out of it.”
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“I've probably seen the Star Wars movies a lot of times, but that's partially just because I started when I was a kid and then I've rewatched them over the years. I don't know if I've seen anything else more than that probably.”
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“It's all pretty, yeah. It's all just pretty unimpressive. But it's kind of because movies, because I do a lot of reading nonfiction and stuff, I feel like movies fill the fluff category. You know, like, I hate heavy nonfiction or like heavy documentary type films. I just fall asleep through that.”
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“I don't know. Not particularly, I guess. I mean, my movie taste runs sort of just straight, like Hollywood action movie, like Total Fluff, you know, like Gladiator or something Just like fun times. Yeah.”
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“To come back to the band I mean, it's a nice man. You call it a little mini home or whatever. You know what a micro home stuff or what's that called? Tiny homes. Yeah, tiny home.”
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“And the thing is, after, and I've lived in a van for like 10 years now, you know, it starts to become a routine. It's like hard to imagine going to a hotel, moving all your shit into a room, moving it back into your car later, moving the car. You're just like, what a waste of time. I just want to park where I need to be.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the thing about living in a car is you're all about minimizing the waste of time. You know, there's no point in driving around in circles. You just park where you need to be, sleep, and then do your thing. That's amazing.”
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“That's my car. That is fucking hilarious. Okay. Who is trying to kidnap me? No, no, that's my rape wagon parked in front of your house. It's one of those things like we drove to San Francisco last night and then I'm like, well, I don't want to park somewhere else and then have to drive here in the morning. So I'm like, I'm just going to go park there. I'm going to sleep as late as possible. I'm going to wake up and I'm going to come in and do a podcast. So I'm going to be like, totally chill.”
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“Yeah, no, I'm all about the eight to ten for sure. I think last night, I mean, I was sleeping in front of your house last night. I think I slept, I think I slept nine last night.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I generally, I'm pretty unstructured, so I basically just go to sleep whenever I need to or whenever it makes sense. Then I just wake up whenever. I try to sleep as much as I want to. What is that?”
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“For the last two months, I've been waking up doing some 15 minutes of stretching, then eating my breakfast, then going climbing just because of the back stuff. But”
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“I mean, for all the years that I've lived in the van, one of my go-to dinners was like mac and cheese with stuff in it, you know, like adding a vegetable. I used to add tuna to it a lot, then I've switched to just like vegetables or, you know, maybe some beans or whatever, or like mac and cheese and chili, though now I'm sort of easing away from mac and cheese too, because I've kind of stopped eating dairy. But so like, you know, rice and vegetable stuff or like lentils or whatever.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I'm not much of a cook and I don't like love food or food prep or anything. If I could, I would just like to take a pill and be like fully fed all day, every day and just be like, sweet, I don't have to worry about it. But I don't know. I mean, in the last couple years, I've gone vegetarian, which has more to do with all like the environmental nonfiction I've been reading. It's more just as one of the few things that I can do as an individual to really have an impact on the world. But yeah, I don't know.”
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“It's funny, even though we were being taken to church, I just always thought it was all a bunch of weird stories. You're just like, it made no sense to me. I'm like, why would you believe in some invisible thing that, you know, I'm like, why would you ever believe any of that? Like, it doesn't make any sense. It's weird. It's weird that so many adults believe all that stuff because it still doesn't make any sense.”
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“Yeah, At least used to identify as Catholic. She'd probably still say that she believes in God, though there's no evidence of it at all. Like she doesn't go to church anymore or do anything. But yes, so as kids we were taken to church, but at no point did I ever believe anything.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“that I believe that other people think is crazy. I don't know. I mean, I think that my evaluation of risk and all the things we were just talking about, a lot of people think is totally crazy. But that's, I mean, I think it's because they don't have a full set of facts on it, you know, that they don't quite appreciate it in the same way that I do. But I don't know if I have any other totally outlandish beliefs like that.”
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“Brad Washburn, who's like a big, if you know him, he was like an alaska explorer photographer. He also ran like a natural history museum in Boston, I think. But so he just had a wide and varied career and he was a national geographic explorer type. He just did a lot with his life. And so after I finished reading the book, I was like, whoa, this guy got shit done, you know. And I don't know, you know, I respect that. And so I just kind of thought about it.”
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“Probably not, but though I do like reading, you know, a biography or something, and then sort of, like I have some notes on my phone of like lists from random things I've read, you know, where you sort of choose little lessons out of like a book about somebody and you're like, oh, like that person did these things well and those are all things that I could apply to my life. But you know, I wouldn't want to model my whole life on somebody that's more like, you know, cherry-picking the good lessons here and there.”
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