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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 18, 2010 - 12:33pm PT
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Healje wrote on another thread-
"Place thy protection well, lest the ground rise up an smite thee." (Book of the Lake of Devils - 19:68-69)
This is true in the art of climbing, also in the art of living. There are a lot of these crossover (or carryover) principles.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 18, 2010 - 12:36pm PT
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boy there's a gold mine of wisdom to be mined from the trading world, as apart from the investor approach.
balancing on the the knife edge of greed/fear, managing risk by a combination of good assessment skills and adherence
to a disciplined approach, acceptance of the role of probability (esp. alpine,) the parallels go on and on.
paramount is self knowledge, and each outing renews the inner dialog, making old friends of the inner demons.
worth pondering that the set of qualities that are rewarded by folks doing the education/hiring run counter,
and turn out to be non-adaptive in the cauldron of climbing/trading.
what is life but swinging from successful escape to subsequent escapade without grounding out?
mix in some quality reflection ... and dig what is.
rinse and repeat
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2010 - 12:39pm PT
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Hooblie- you mean that carries over to the "practice" of living or the "practice" of climbing? If so, let's have one.
EDIT
(1) the parallels go on and on (2) what is life but swinging from successful escape to subsequent escapade without grounding out? (3) mix in some quality reflection, and dig what is.
Nice.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Feb 18, 2010 - 12:42pm PT
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Climb wide, forsaking all other crack projects. (Book of Wyde 6:66)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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Another carryover:
Success in the arts of living and climbing depend powerfully on how well we are educated and trained in them.
In another thread, Cracko wrote-
I'm on edge, and my next move is completely unpredictable !!!
I know this feeling. Across both arts.
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Feb 18, 2010 - 03:57pm PT
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I talk about the art of living strategies
that "carry over" to the art of climbing all the time.
And vice versa. Ask my climbing buddies,
they'll tell ya.
"Knowing better is doing better."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 18, 2010 - 04:24pm PT
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Footloose wrote-
I talk about the art of living strategies
that "carry over" to the art of climbing all the time.
And vice versa.
Me, too. The parallelisms are striking.
In the last 50-70 years, haven't climbers by and large figured out the "best practices" in the art of climbing. And hasn't the whole world, all of humanity, been in a similar process of figuring out the "best practices" in the art of living-- albeit often agonizingly slowly, agonizingly inefficiently.
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Scott McNamara
Social climber
Tucson, Arizona
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Feb 18, 2010 - 04:32pm PT
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I seek to learn to handle my fears in life---by learning to handle my fears in climbing.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2010 - 10:26am PT
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Another parallelism-
When you find yourself at the end of your rope, do not hesitate to rely on your most trusted friends for support. (Epictetus 8:33)
In the art of living as in the art of climbing.
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