E198: Sam, Aidan & Katie - Pride, confidence, projects and hypotheticals

About this episode

The hosts discuss confidence in climbing, personal achievements, and engage in hypotheticals with guest Katie.

We had a great time doing 75% of a round table. Alas no Benn this time, but Katie has done a hard new boulder in Yosemite so that gave us something to talk about. We got to talking about confidence in the projecting process, comparison to others, how much pride we feel about our achievements and I throw a bunch of hypotheticals at them at the end! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us please consider checking out our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823 ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Prior, Aidan Roberts

Guest: Katie

Topics covered

• confidence
• climbing
• pride
• projecting
• hypotheticals

Keywords

• climbing
• confidence
• Yosemite
• projects
• pride
• hypotheticals

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Yosemite

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