Hello, E listeners, and welcome to go!

My favorite sports team.

An episode hosted exclusively and singularly by me, your master of balls and holes, Tyler

Shide.

I wanted to dive into something particular,

especially after some recent things that have happened in sport.

We've seen a lot of it throughout the year,

and also something that's very personal to me,

and that's talking about fear.

I am afraid.

There's a lot of things that I'm afraid of,

and we're going to get into that later.

But one of the biggest things that happens in sports, and a lot of people think of when it comes to sports, particularly extreme sports, is the factor of fear.

We kind of touched on this a bit when we talked to Alex Honnold in the sense that how he sees fear

and how he evaluates things. I know in his documentary, they do an MRI scan of his brain,

trying to see his response to certain things that normal people are afraid of and talking about

the factor of the fear that goes into free soloing.

And now that's not to say that being afraid is a bad thing.

I mean, fear in and of itself is actually a really good thing for the most part.

It keeps you hyper aware.

I mean, by its definition, it's an intense emotion that is a response to perceived threat or danger.

And it causes psychological changes to lead to behavioral reactions.

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