This is great. I love the connections you make. I watched Free Solo last weekend and thought the relationship between Honnold and his girlfriend was fascinating. The way he was so closed to it, and how sad and exasperated she looked alot of the time. I have eons of time for de Botton too. I can’t get on board with Ferris at all though, I’ve heard too much glaring phoniness from him to take much of what he says seriously, and i don’t really care for techniques on how to speed-read War & Peace to tick it off some bucket list. But i loved your article. Thank you!