BZ Book Review 18: <The Push> by Tommy Caldwell

Key Takeaways

1. The best gift you can give to your kid is the ability to conquer adversity.

2. When you faced the situation of killing or being killed, what would you do? Six Days of Captivity Experience at Kyrgyzstan

3. My way of dealing with it is to get back on that horse and do what I do the best and what like - climb.

4. Tommy lost his finger due to an accident. Everyone thinks his career is over but with his Kyrgyzstan experience, he knows his preconceived limits are totally off the base. He can do things that no one can imagine. Those climb which he cannot do, now he can do it missing a finger.

5. Mr. El Cap

6. Finding something to be obsessed with so I don’t have to be obsessed with the divorce. If you are broken , just threw yourself at the wall

7. We all admire people who are dedicated and at some point we don’t know the line between dedication and obsession

8. After all those years, after all those failure, you may doubt you are not good enough, but all you need to do is just keep going and at one point, you may just feel this confidence.

9. From Kevin’s perspective, when you see your partner go further and further above, the distance between you guys get bigger and bigger, he also got frustrated but he did not allow it to get in the way of his pursue, he continues,. Even he did not make it in the end, he still feels grateful to be there with Tommy and to witness the entire journey. What is more moving is when Tommy almost made it to the end, he turned back to make sure Kevin can do this with him together. He wants this journey with him together. Tommy ‘dropped’ his phone and try to enjoy the weather more to release some pressure from Kevin. In the meantime, Kevin is not giving up. He tries and tries again. When he finally did it, the emotions is overwhelming.

Credited to the Movie <The Dawn Wall> with Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson