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Bill Ramsey's Pain Box for Climbers: How to Try Harder

Okay, the big question… how can we all learn to give more effort?

I recently posed this question to a coaching mentorship group that I was working with. I suggested that effort is directly related to how bad we want it. But one of the coaches scoffed at this, saying that we all want it, or why else would we be there?

But do we?

To examine this very question, longtime climber and philosophy professor, Bill Ramsey developed something he calls The Pain Box.

In the video below, a short clip from our podcast episode REMIX: EFFORT, I reimagine Bill’s Pain Box for effort on the wall or at the crag, with common excuses not to give a higher effort.

You can listen to the full episode right here or wherever you get podcasts.

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