Motivational speaker Aron Ralston tells the true story of his 127 Hours of survival — Transcript

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1. 0:02for an hour I'm just fury unleashing
2. 0:07against that rock trying to lift it
3. 0:09trying to pull the boulder trying to rip
4. 0:11my arm free I'm cursing at the rocks
5. 0:14banking it is if that's gonna do
6. 0:16anything and of course it's just wasted
7. 0:20effort that's the thing about that that
8. 0:23moment when the boulders fall and we
9. 0:25have that response emotions are fine but
10. 0:29to be controlled by them to be hijacked
11. 0:31by them that's not really serving
12. 0:35anybody the best thing that I did then
13. 0:38in those those first minutes after the
14. 0:40impact and after the the trap had snared
15. 0:44me was that I stopped and stopped is a
16. 0:49acronym that works pretty well is to go
17. 0:52through it s to stop and take a breath
18. 0:55and then t think engage your higher
19. 0:59brain not just that reptilian response
20. 1:01but o make some observations come up
21. 1:04with some options P decide on a plan
22. 1:08sto P well for me in that moment is as
23. 1:11I'm able to to gather myself here we are
24. 1:14an hour in but I start taking stock of
25. 1:17what I have with me and the food water
26. 1:20climbing gear that I have as I'm looking
27. 1:22around in the canyon and I see the other
28. 1:25boulders that are up above me and I
29. 1:27think maybe I can use those to build an
30. 1:30anchor to be able to somehow rig up my
31. 1:32rope create a pulley system mechanical
32. 1:35advantage my way out of this I was an
33. 1:37engineer by training profession before
34. 1:40this so I'm working through this problem
35. 1:43solving using those skills and I think
36. 1:46through ok the little slot that I see
37. 1:49maybe I could somehow build a fire use
38. 1:51the lens from one of my cameras to send
39. 1:53light up such a narrow little spot
40. 1:57claustrophobic to some but for me that
41. 2:00these other rocks maybe I could use
42. 2:02those that I could smash into the the
43. 2:04boulder and try to loosen it up or break
44. 2:07it in half somehow
45. 2:10I'm not otherwise injured though I'm not
46. 2:12bleeding there's no real first-aid to do
47. 2:15it's just ok rationing my food and my
48. 2:17water thinking this through what else
49. 2:20can I make use of looking behind me I
50. 2:21took a picture while I was trapped there
51. 2:23of what's in the canyon downstream that
52. 2:27rock my arm that possibly small shadow
53. 2:29within this first hour as I'm doing the
54. 2:32brainstorming and I'm thinking through
55. 2:34my options I know the pocketknife that I
56. 2:37have my backpack this multi-tool blade
57. 2:42pliers file maybe I'd be able to carve
58. 2:45my way through the rock excavate my hand
59. 2:48and I also think still right in the
60. 2:51beginning from the get-go I even said
61. 2:54out loud Aaron you're gonna have to cut
62. 2:57your arm off to which I replied I don't
63. 3:01want to cut my arm off right and then I
64. 3:07retorted dude you're gonna have to cut
65. 3:09your arm off
66. 3:10I knew it isn't that the case we know
67. 3:17the crisis happens the boulder falls on
68. 3:20us we understand we intuitively know
69. 3:23what it is that that we're gonna have to
70. 3:25do to to manage this to change to adapt
71. 3:28to it and yet we resisted I don't want
72. 3:30to it's very familiar you go through
73. 3:35enough of these and you see the pattern
74. 3:37and yet I understood even in the
75. 3:40beginning