In this episode I chat to mountain athlete, podcaster, and filmmaker Ari in the Air.

Ari recently gave a talk at The Stoa on Brinksmanship, the art of finding and learning from your edge. Here we discuss the idea and some of the experiences that formed it.

Along with Brinksmanship, we chat about:

• Flow states in the outdoors, the do's and don't's of building a practice around peak states
• Developing a sensitivity for where your passion lies, for the information that fear conveys
• How endurance sports can change the way we understand the mind-body connection
• A bunch of other stuff in between

You can find more of Ari at https://ariintheair.com/ or on Instagram @ariintheair

Links mentioned:

• The book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Stoa course Beyond Self Discipline. See here for a post with some more info
• Bonnitta Roy, who Ari references when describing the difference between the role self and the individuated self

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