A couple of days ago I had my first experience on a ropes course. We only had a short time at this facility and so the piece I chose to do was what was described as the most fearsome of all the apparati. It was affectionately dubbed “the Pamper pole” after the diaper brand.<\/p>\n
The Pamper pole is a a 10 meter high log stood on its end with a platform on top. It has little cleats that you can climb up and the point of the exercise is to get to the top, stand on a platform and leap into space to grab at a bar hanging two meters in front of you.<\/p>\n
I have no real fear of heights, and I had no trust issues with my belay crew, so getting up wasn’t hard at all. Standing on the platform though and contemplating jumping out into space was a little strange. I generally pride myself on being able to handle change and chaos pretty well and there are times when I have jumped into figurative unknowns without a problem. But standing on that rickety platform, trying to centre my attention in my core rather than in my knees, I found myself staring at the bar and wanting more information. I wanted to know how it would feel to miss, and how it would feel to actually leap, safety net be damned.<\/p>\n
That held me back for a few minutes, and frankly it surprised me. Despite all the safety that I knew was there, I was looking for one more piece, and it was the most intangible and impossible piece. How was I possibly going to get that information other than by jumping?<\/p>\n
Interesting. I can see this in many people and groups I work with: looking for impossible information before jumping into something new. Either we suck it up and leap, or we simply shy away and never know what it could have been like.<\/p>\n
Been there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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