In reply to cider nut: good article!
interesting and well-expressed. It's hard to write at length about motivations and difficulties, whilst still remaining interesting. The bullet points were the most interesting:
*"It's important to embrace the challenge of climbing instead of avoiding it. "
This is very true, and i'm only just descovering how exciting it can be.
* "You should constantly work to expand your comfort zone rather than working within it."
This is also a good point, but I don't think it's essential to be a 'well-rounded' climber- good to specialise me thinks.
*"Your ego will try to keep you in a emotionally safe place using lies (an ego is more than just cockiness and arrogance, it's any self indulgent feelings, even negative ones such as 'I'm not good enough to do this')."
I think it's just a fear of failiure- hense why you never see climbers climb at the edge of their grade, the main reason I don't try hard routes at stanage ect. is cause fialiure would be deeply humiliating.
once again, good article!