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No, he means that everyone can improve within their own potential and personal limit, be the best they can be, if they work hard. Nobody can be Messi with hard work. But they can be the best version of themselves. For some that is still rubbish, for others it takes them from average to good...

It was something that I overlooked til you mentioned it, but it makes sense. Minus fear, the adrenaline rush and thrill of 'beating the risk' wouldn't be there anyway. Because without fear, there is no risk to them. Unless they feel no fear and the 'fear' is death rather than the activity...

I know, I am agreeing with you. I made two posts there that basically agree with you. It's that old thing about extreme talent being the best, but you still need to be professional and put the work in. If Messi sat on his arse eating pizza all day he'd still be great but it would give clowns...

I agree though that they feel a lot less fear naturally than most humans, the same way Messi is better with a ball than all humans. Whether they feel NO fear? Well you'd have to ask them that. And they probably don't know themselves if they felt it when they started out as they're so used to...

Obviously talent is the overriding factor. These daredevils had to be good at what they did too, as well as Messi being the best. Otherwise they'd fall at the first hurdle, quite literally. But as Horatio says, practice fine tunes that extreme talent further.

The fine line between pleasure and pain. Same thought process as BDSM and all that stuff. Thrillseekers.

Yeah fair point and overlooked. I guess they can practice with harnesses until they feel confident enough at that height, and then repeat. Not sure if that is their process but would make sense. I still don't know how any amount of practice prepares you for climbing cliffs, jumping out of...

I think video games are more of an 'entertainment' excitement than a 'thrill' excitement. It's not the same sort of adrenaline rush. Exposure therapy is it, but still, when you think about it, it's some leap (no pun intended) from going from a few feet high, to 10 feet, to a few stories of a...

True, but how do you get 'conditioned' or used to it anyway? I guess you start with small-scale heights and stuff, and then progress as you get more confident. Exposure therapy. On a smaller scale it's similar to how guys and girls learn to try the pole vault, which also looks a scary activity...

Haha. And probably, it's funny that eh that people can do amazing daredevil activities but are probably scared of stuff normal people take in their stride. Like you say, they're built differently.

Yeah true, some people just don't feel fear at all. Or they feel it, but not in these realms. I'd bet that Petit guy gets more scared (relatively speaking) driving on a motorway than walking tightropes on skyscrapers. Some people were just born to do what they do and are built differently in...

Me too, even moreso because I am very scared of heights. Even when I used to go to football stadia I could never sit in the top decks. I never did, had to be on the lower stands. For guys to do what the climber you reference or the tightrope walker I do? I don't know how its humanly possible to...

Nah that's not him, though I have respect for guys that insane too. I meant the guy who walked a tightrope between the twin towers in New York back in 1974, without a safety harness. And generally never used them. Google Man on Wire and you'll see. It isn't climbing but it's all the same sort...

Google Philippe Petit if you like that stuff (you probably already know who he is anyway).

Tbh, if Pep did a Ferguson and stayed long-term for decades (He likely won't), I'd be confident of City getting to 21 titles before United. That would be 12 more City titles to 0 United. That's the machine City are and the state United are in in my view. Not saying it would happen, but the fact...

Would never be me mate. Heights terrify me.

I think it will take a lot longer than a couple of years, but that is my personal opinion. You could say football moves fast, but look at the insane contracts they give to average players. They stockpile so much deadwood that other clubs don't wanna go near. Trying to turn all that over with...

Not sure if you watch the Boys or just know Homelander as a meme, but he's absolutely insane that lad.

I think they tried that with Alvarez getting the nod a few times last season, though admittedly not in big games. The guy's main weapons are his height, strength and power and pace, but he doesn't seem to know how to utilise them, as you imply. Let's be honest, he's never winning any playmaking...

Exactly. They just don't have the balls to admit they are also-rans now. They cannot handle it as they were used to winning in England, so they build a deluded reality where their players are top players and it's only the management and structure of the club that is the problem. Like it was...