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“People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who have been there and they know exactly why your eyes are glazed over.”
― Jimmy Chin

“And I’ve taken a different path my whole life, whether in business or sports. I always want to compete with myself, not with other people.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

“A friend once told me there are two great risks in life: risking too much, and risking too little. Most people understand the first. Few understand the cost of the second, the cost of an unlived life. We all dance along the faint line in between.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

“and it’s taught me that with business as with everything else, if you do everything the right way, profits will come. So you don’t focus on profit. You focus on intent. Climbing is the same way. So is cooking. Simplicity of intent forces creativity, and creativity is where we find pleasure.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

“Yo-Yo did not put this question directly to his parents because “Chinese culture is not really a culture of intergenerational dialogue. You don’t talk back. You just listen. You do what you’re told.” His family, like my own, was very Confucian, steeped in the idea that hierarchy creates harmony.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

“When you’re way out on lead, on a rock climb, and holding yourself onto the wall with your fingertips, you feel engaged with the moment at a cellular level. Your entire being fuses into one sense of purpose utterly without concern for where you came from or what somebody else calls your identity.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters

“I learned to care a lot more about what a person experienced and what decisions they made than whatever pedigree they had or the size of their bank account.”
― Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By: How Extraordinary Lives Define What Really Matters