If you were incredibly small, and you came up to a little drop of water, it would be a huge bubble. We were about three feet tall when we were two years old. We were surrounded by people bigger than us. I am six feet tall now. I like imagining being surrounded by twelve-foot adults running around protecting us.
I did my first ski lesson on the holiday my now wife proposed to me. I saw little kids being picked up by the adults as they were about to go into a snowbank. Swooping in to the rescue. When I was about to go into the snowbank, no twelve-foot adult came swooping in.
Once we become adults, we build in our own protections and ways of making sure consequences are not too grave. We carry on.
We build our own set of congnitive biases that help us relax. Biases help us make decisions quickly so we don’t have to think of every snowbank. We can just ski. That is what mastery is all about. When you trust your capacity to engage with the world and get to a level that is intuitive, the anxiety falls away.
Soutie learns to Ski
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