# David Abel - The point of maximum fear is the point of minimum danger.

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Podcast: [Back2Different](https://stenobird.com/podcast/back2different-795862)
Published: 2025-12-29T17:00:00+00:00
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Two very different and almost identical travelers, David Abel and I. We both explore and breathe curiosity. David is demonstrably ambitious, I more demonstrably gestalt. His childhood Dickensian, mine bourgeois, yet each gave birth to a hunger for experience and a reasonably ambiguous approach to normal. Signposts in our conversation turned us toward learning we couldn't hold back our own tides, being told we were 'very average,' and the insight we each felt when we realized we couldn't...

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