It turns out that rock climbing helps to overcome the fear of failure

Journalist Stephanie Lee has a hobby of a lifetime - rock climbing. Rock climbing is a kind of activity that allows you to train strength and endurance in incredible conditions and with incredible results. Moreover, in addition to training the body, it also trains the spirit, allowing you to become more powerful in the moral plane. However, rock climbing is one of those areas in which you need to come to terms with constant failures to become better. You need to be able to make mistakes in front of everyone, and also not to take to heart criticism about your results. Eight years ago Stephanie could not cope with all this and, accordingly, could not become better in climbing. As a result, she stopped doing it at all.

Climbing as a failure

Since then, she has taken up weightlifting, which taught her that a person can never achieve his goal unless he always tries to show the best result and learn from his mistakes. And now she again took up climbing. By the time many failures have happened in her life, such as the inability to raise the planned weight, the inability to achieve the necessary scales, the inability to control her diet and so on. She thought that she had long been accustomed to failure. However, it turned out that when it comes to climbing, she is still very far from the ideal in overcoming the desire to quit everything after another failure, although her approach has completely changed. The difference is that now Stephanie sees climbing as a training in overcoming failures, and she wants to share with you some of the tips that help her to date.

If one approach does not work, try something else

Once Stephanie tried to climb a certain route, starting with the left foot, because it was so convenient for her. But at the same time she did not succeed in even the right way to begin. But then someone asked her: "Why do not you change your leg and change the center of gravity in the same way?", And this small change allowed her to traverse the route from the very first time.

Forget about it and accept yourself as you are

Your fear of defeat by 99 percent is determined by the fact that your ego keeps telling you that you can not be worse than gorgeous. But when a harsh reality comes and you can not climb the intended route, your ego becomes the main reason why you can refuse further attempts. But do not forget that in order to become better in something, you need to be worse in this. If you remember this, you will be able to look more realistically at the picture and understand how you are currently using your capabilities, and what you need to change in order to improve your result.

Ask for help and support

Rock climbing is a social activity, and that's why climbers continue to try, regardless of the circumstances. Your friends who know you better than climbing can give you advice, advice, suggest other approaches to solving problems that you yourself would not have guessed. Recognizing that you need help can be quite difficult, but if you do, it will greatly speed up the process of your learning and improvement.

You do not have to compare yourself to anyone

Solutions to problems depend on the person, and you can not learn everything by watching one person, because his body, height, limb length, and strength make his approach unique and not fully compatible with your indicators. You need to start scrambling and try everything on your own. And it's not just about climbing, but about everything in your life.

Fighting the fear of failure

Determining how best to climb a wall, a mountain, and so on is the same as folding a mosaic using the whole body in the process of constantly fighting with invisible forces, such as gravity or fear of heights (or fears Failures). If you do not get to grasp the next ledge, perhaps you need to try to cuddle closer to the wall in order to get a chance to reach out with your hand. The only way to find out is to go back to the wall and try again.