288: Erik Weihenmayer | A Blind Man Sees No Barriers
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Erik Weihenmayer (@ErikWeihenmayer) has kayaked the Grand Canyon and climbed Mount Everest -- blind. He is the author of Touch the Top of the World and co-author of No Barriers and The Adversity Advantage.
What We Discuss with Erik Weihenmayer:- How challenges unite us as human beings -- no matter our hardships or handicaps.
- Why losing his sight as a teenager didn't discourage Erik from excelling beyond the capacity of the world's most accomplished extreme athletes.
- How Erik embraces a "no barriers" philosophy to guide and lift others -- even when their own cultures seek to keep them down.
- Why Erik's not "the blind climber," but a climber who happens to be blind -- and why this makes all the difference.
- The instincts, senses, and technology that allow Erik to navigate around his dangerous terrains of choice without sight.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:06.0 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.5 | On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
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| 0:19.6 | We're going to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think |
| 0:22.7 | and behave, and help you become a better thinker as well. |
| 0:25.9 | If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors, |
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| 0:35.5 | persuasion, influence and more. |
| 0:37.4 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with |
| 0:41.0 | us. |
| 0:42.0 | Today, Eric Weinmeer. |
| 0:43.6 | He was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 0:47.0 | He's also completed the seven summits, joining 150 mountain years at the time, who'd |
| 0:51.2 | accomplish that feat, but the only climber who was blind. |
| 0:54.7 | He learned how to rock climb at a young age. |
| 0:56.7 | Didn't need to see, because he felt his way around a lot of the time, which frankly |
| 1:00.2 | seems pretty dangerous, regardless of vision. |
| 1:02.9 | Eric told me that as a blind person, it sometimes feels like society is smothering him with |
| 1:07.4 | a blanket, assuming he can't do what sighted people can do. |
| 1:10.7 | Of course, he goes all the way full circle and around the other side and decides to do |
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