Facing fear and pressure

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you're mentally not prepared for that it

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will [ __ ] you I think people get this

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uh misconception about me that I'm

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fearless it's really not the case I fear

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a lot it's a very useful tool to tap

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into ever since I've been conscious I've

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been climbing things like I I had an

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attraction to Heights I I couldn't quite

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understand why other people in my

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classroom weren't as curious about

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emotions like fear like I to climb up a

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really tall tree i' get to the top and

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I'd look down I'd be scared and I'd sort

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of dare myself to jump out the tree

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even though I was totally alone and no

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one was pressuring me to do it I was

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just curious about what that what was

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holding me back what those butterflies

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were I wanted to control it I wanted to

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explore that GE George is very different

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for sure he always set himself pretty

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massive goals at quite a young age like

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for instance when he was 16 he was like

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I'm going to do an ultra marathon I'd

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have hundreds of different dreams on a

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list and you know they'd range from you

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know being the youngest to swim the

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channel youngest to climb Everest I was

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obsessed with this idea of doing

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something big and when I was 13 I was on

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a school art trip and for the first time

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out