‘Hesitation is bad, momentum is good’
- Mathew Childs, veteran rock climber
during his TED talk presentation on ‘9 life lessons from rock climbing’.
Mathew Childs was speaking in context of ‘friction climbing’ where the rock surface does not have any sort of hard positive edges. Hence in friction climbing, you are climbing on little dimples and nubbins in the rock. The most friction you have is when you first put your hand or your foot on the rock. And then from that point on, you're basically falling. So momentum is good. To stop, to hesitate is bad.
Try holding a small weight in your hand with your arm outstretched and parallel to the ground. With every passing moment, the object seems to get heavier and the elbow and shoulder joints begin to hurt increasingly to the point of becoming unbearable. However, if you were to keep moving the object between your two hands and keep moving continuously, the task remains easy.
Consider our own predicament. When we maintain momentum we move easy. But if we pause too long, we get weighed down. Hence, we need to keep moving. Not just during a task, but keep moving across tasks… doing different tasks! Too much of hesitation pulls you back but maintaining momentum will ensure that you never feel the heaviness that comes from hesitation.
Don’t you stay where you earlier stood…
Keeping up the momentum is truly good!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
- Mathew Childs, veteran rock climber
during his TED talk presentation on ‘9 life lessons from rock climbing’.
Mathew Childs was speaking in context of ‘friction climbing’ where the rock surface does not have any sort of hard positive edges. Hence in friction climbing, you are climbing on little dimples and nubbins in the rock. The most friction you have is when you first put your hand or your foot on the rock. And then from that point on, you're basically falling. So momentum is good. To stop, to hesitate is bad.
Try holding a small weight in your hand with your arm outstretched and parallel to the ground. With every passing moment, the object seems to get heavier and the elbow and shoulder joints begin to hurt increasingly to the point of becoming unbearable. However, if you were to keep moving the object between your two hands and keep moving continuously, the task remains easy.
Consider our own predicament. When we maintain momentum we move easy. But if we pause too long, we get weighed down. Hence, we need to keep moving. Not just during a task, but keep moving across tasks… doing different tasks! Too much of hesitation pulls you back but maintaining momentum will ensure that you never feel the heaviness that comes from hesitation.
Don’t you stay where you earlier stood…
Keeping up the momentum is truly good!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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