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The Risks In Tommy Caldwell's 'The Push'

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In the autobiography The Push, Tommy Caldwell describes his journey as a rock climber and the risks he had to take to get to where he is now. Paul Roberts, in his article Risk, addresses why people take major risks and the addictive factors that are involved, even when they are faced with intense fear. In the Journal of Health Psychology article, Extreme Sports Are Good For Your Health, Eric Brymer and Robert Schweitzer hint on risk and discuss fear as an experience and the relationship that people have with it.

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