I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air … - Erik Weihenmayer

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My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Erik Weihenmayer

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

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Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

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I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

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When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.

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People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

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