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Dropping In: What Skateboarding Teaches Us About Fear
Picture this for a moment: you’re standing at the top of a ramp on your board, about to drop in (which is essentially free-falling forward), by the way. You’re looking down, but you can’t see the entire ramp beneath you. You just have to trust that it’s there. There’s a pause as your stomach drops. Your brain is full with thoughts of falling, getting hurt, or looking dumb. This moment doesn’t belong only to skateboarding.

Mack Kirsch
Jan 133 min read