Fear. Out of skydiving, scuba diving, shark diving, snowboarding, surfing, caving, biking, skateboarding and everything else I've taken a moment in my life to enjoy, kayaking is the biggest mental challenge I've taken on out of every extreme sport. I have dealt with my share of loss, scares, failures, and injuries in this sport, even with my own drowning. Even with all that experience, I'm constantly working through and reevaluating my relationship to fear. I'm still growing too. That said, I think it's a solid start for tackling the fear issue that we all have to deal with in every aspect of life, but especially in kayaking. My sincerest hope is that this will help you have a more healthy dialogue within yourself about the fear you'll inevitably feel at some point, so you can make better choices for yourself and take on those bigger dreams and goals the mental blocks and fears may be keeping you from. Who knows, maybe it'll help you in other areas of life too, it's certainly helped me in every aspect of my own.

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The book I recommended in this one is called The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler. Here's a link to his site: https://www.flowresearchcollective.com/ The book can be found there, on Amazon, and easily on Audible. It's also the most accurate representation of the outdoor adventure sports world that I've found, bucking the "adrenalinecrazed thrill seeker" stereotype often push on us by people who don't really understand what it is we do or who we are.