Facing Fear in the Wild (Cheryl Strayed) | Nat Geo Live

I wanted to ask you about fear and what
you learned about fear one of the things
I write in wild is that you know that I
that that I decided before my hike that
I wasn’t gonna be afraid because I knew
that if I allowed fear to overtake me I
just couldn’t do it I wouldn’t go or I’d
be out there and I’d run shrieking you
know from the wilderness on night one
and I wanted to be able to do what I
wanted to do and I think that any
probably a lot of you in the room have
had adventures and travels of your own
and you do have to you do have to sort
of talk to yourself and say I’m okay
like I can do this I can do this even if
it makes me feel uncomfortable and
afraid the first time I went hiking by
myself
was in Saguaro National Park in Arizona
and I remember distinctly you know just
being afraid but doing it anyway and
then by the end of the day I realized
there was nothing to fear and so I was
preparing myself I think in some ways
you know without knowing what I was
preparing myself for so then when the
time came when I thought you know I have
completely ruined my life and I need to
save it I knew that a journey was going
to be healing and redemptive and
transformative to me and I knew that I
needed to do it alone and so I was I had
sort of worked myself I guess into that
place of necessary you know experience
encouraged to say I could do it alone
you