People who have not climbed can actually not really understand rock climbing, nor can they give a relatively accurate explanation of Alex's behavior.
There are actually many genres of rock climbing. Another film that strongly echoes free solo, Dawn Wall, shows how the world's top masters overcome the problem of free climb. Compared to them, bouldering, skills, and indoor competitions are completely different. A type of rock climbing activity. I have read a lot of reviews about the two movies, and I feel that I didn't say some of the content I want to see. It is better to record one or two by myself.
Alex’s achievements are described as successful landing on the moon, which is actually very inappropriate. Relatively speaking, Tommy’s achievements are closer to the metaphor of successful landing on the moon. Tommy is rational, a traditional rock climber in the normal category (and alex). With planning, training, step by step approach to the goal. Do your own insurance and safety work. This is a normal and achievable engineering goal. For example, if we fail once during the moon landing, it doesn’t matter. The wealth of experience we have accumulated still exists, and we will come again next time. We can be better.
Alex is completely different. The power source of his pursuit is also not the same as Tommy. Alex pursues an absolute state of achieving the highest goal of self. It is the pursuit of his own limits, and in this pursuit channel, it is completely different. There is a self. The self is only the container of the soul. He is just using his own tool to try to get close to the perfection he is pursuing. Tommy's soul is at least tied to the earth, or an ordinary living person. Instead of seeing himself as his own soul It's just a container.
In fact, from their state during the climbing process, you can also see the obvious difference between them. In the process of climbing the Dawn Wall, Tommy and his companion Kevin are both emotional people. They will be disturbed by many factors. Tommy's originality The driving force mainly comes from the hope to use a difficult enough problem to solve another absolutely difficult dilemma in my heart. Alex climbs only for climbing itself. I just want to achieve this goal. I feel that I can do it. Can do such a thing It is his soul's appeal. To do a truly perfect climb is his appeal.
The vast majority of ordinary people are not this type of person. But there will be many people who are the same type of people as tommy. They have strong original hobbies and impulses in certain aspects. They have a natural passion for them. They are able to transfer their own Put talent and enthusiasm into it. Pursue to reach a clearly visible and practical point of success, not to complete a thing perfectly.
Moreover, on this balance of pursuit of perfection, one's own life is regarded as a bet. If you fail to succeed, you will be benevolent. This is definitely more heretical thinking. But this kind of heretical thinking is the rarest, most precious, and most precious in the human spirit. Incredible wealth, that is, truly expanding and proving the boundaries of what kind of energy human beings have. It symbolizes the ultimate form of human spiritual power.
From another perspective. People like Alex have some similarities with gamblers who are engaged in professional hedge fund investments. Relative to the average person, they seem to be born with emotional obstacles and lacks. Objectively speaking, they are more like It is the coordination of reason, body and behavior that can be unified to a level that will not be affected by emotions. But the root is that they have a real purpose in their hearts.
For ordinary people. In life, he can resist many disturbances in the career he loves. Throw away unnecessary distractions, and accumulate and release all his energy in the career he loves. This person can do this. It really doesn't make any difference. The distinction between ordinary people and outstanding people is actually this level of commitment in the final analysis.
Rock climbing happens to be an excellent test of this kind of mental power. When the body is challenged to the limit, fatigue, soreness, fear, success and failure, and even the boundary of life and death are tied to a person's spiritual power. Nothing. Any space gives you any distractions other than solving the problem itself. This sport can be seen as a high-intensity miniature feedback version of a long life challenge.
There are also a few people who are always awake when they can face their own problems. They understand their ultimate goals. They should break down their own paths rationally, and repeat persistent training so that they can overcome all the difficulties on the road. They must also have the ability to keep trying. The determination to persevere and not fear hardship.
There is no shortcut on the road to achievement. If you pursue perfection, it is a story of another dimension. In my eyes, Alex's greatness surpasses Jordan and surpasses Armstrong. This even surpasses his successful bare-handed climbing of Emirates Rock. The important thing is that he is actually the only person in today's era who lives on the road to the pursuit of the ultimate and has achieved the ultimate in this matter to achieve unprecedented achievements.
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