In my experience, situations where you have to choose between two options are rarely true EITHER — OR scenarios. One can usually get away with choosing both if one is prepared to invest a bit more. But sometimes, choosing both makes you stuck in the middle, not really progressing in either of the options, and the best thing to do is realise it and let one of them go. This is what happened to me a while ago, when I

Or how I pushed the limits of what seemed possible and discovered they are further away than I thought. Sports climbing has been a part of my life for more than a decade. It is a hobby that feels a bit more than just that, and an activity that allows me to focus on nothing but a piece of rock and my movement, and to challenge myself. For a better part of those 10 years, I was okay at it.

I’ve had my share of situations where I stepped out of my comfort zone and into the area where I have little-to-non prior knowledge. From alpinism to this little endeavour. And although the areas vary substantially, the anatomy of a process is similar for all of them. Shift in perception It all starts with our subjective perception. It determines how we interpret the world, it’s our own personal subjective truth, and it’s, in my opinion, a key enabler for motivation

It’s been a while since my last post — more than two and a half months. At first, I thought I’d only skip one post, but then I skipped another one, and another one, and here we are. So what happened? The 3 dilemmas I didn’t experience a series of bad days as my last post might have hinted — I’ve actually had a very productive period with some very interesting stuff going on. So that was not the reason

You know those days when you are working hard and doing everything right, but the results are not reflecting it, and you are just getting one fail after another? Sometimes you may think that you’re doing everything right, but you’re actually making mistakes, other times, you are doing the best with the knowledge you have, and sometimes, things are just out of your control and happen in spite of what you do. I’ve had a bad day or two in