Lessons for Life and Business from Climbing Sea Cliffs: Adversity vs Uncertainty
According to Hemmingway, "There are only three sports, motor racing, bullfighting and mountaineering. All the rest are merely games”. Perhaps Wing Suiting could be added? - Fun? Maybe for some. I have to think quite hard why you would dedicate your life to the pursuit of something that could also simultaneously end it. I have to think even harder why I, a mountaineering guide, made that choice... And so it is in business. One person's passion is another's poison. Risk, adversity and uncertainty can either be your undoing, or something that brings out pure genius, hidden talent, innovation and extraordinary teamwork. Mountaineers and Rock climbers live with uncertainty, and develop techniques to function at a high level in demanding situations - skills gained from years of testing limits and erasing boundaries, and this is what I want to focus on today. Climbers, like cave divers, train themselves to suppress fear and the resulting feelings of uncertainty. They train