Brooke Raboutou is a young rock climber of prodigious ability. She set seven climbing records before she turned 12 years old. In this video, she outlines many attributes needed for anyone to achieve big goals. In her case, it’s conquering sheer vertical rock! What challenges are you facing that seems insurmountable?
To summarize this 8-minute video Brooke says that she:
- thrives on challenges
- is happiest climbing – doing what she does is cool, because there’s so many different ways to climb get to the top.
- is competitive and wants to be the best
- knows that creativity is required to climb
- takes advantage of and hones her unique abilities
- takes direction from her coach even when it’s frustrating to do so
- takes time dangling from a cliff’s edge to enjoy the view – she describes as “pretty and fascinating” on the way up
- is hard on herself
- recognizes that she doesn’t just “have it” naturally and takes her training seriously
- motivated by challenges and failures as she doesn’t like to leave something left undone
- is mentally tough and has a gritty, tenacious personality that doesn’t give up
- knows there’s always a way to accomplish a route to her goal
One of her coaches summarized it best. Rock climbing is hard. If it doesn’t make you happy there’s no reason to do it.
