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I'm Gail Strav and you're listening to She Explorers.

Confidence is a great thing.

Once you've done something and become confidence in whatever area it is.

If you just at least stop and consider all the possibilities from the most pessimistic

to think worst case scenario what could happen here and make a decision based off

Okay, I can do this if I make a few changes. Maybe those few changes will make the difference

Whether something happens you're

injured killed who knows what you know lost anything this is Lisa a couple of

months ago I received an essay from her in consideration for publication on She Explores.

The title How to Survive Over Confidence caught my eye, but it was the content that held me.

It's an essay that holds more questions than answers.

It's filled with anger and grief and bewilderment at the loss of Lisa's dear hiking partner. It's also filled with

logic, a hypothesis of sorts for what went wrong. At its core the essay asked the questions, how can you explain

losing your good friend? And how can you reconcile doing what you love,

hiking solo? When hiking solo is and

on how hiking solo is what your friend was doing when she died.

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