#41 Benny Lewis on How Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro is Like Learning Languages - a podcast by Fluent in 3 Months

Elizabeth interviews Benny about his experience climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and how it parallels learning a language.

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Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

• Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and achieving a travel dream


• Giving up on language learning


• The compare and despair trap


• Being okay with mistakes


• Letting go of other people’s judgements


• Finding the silver lining


• How focusing on the end goal blinds you to the day to day progress


• The importance of asking questions and getting an outside perspective


• Why you make sure you have good people behind you

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