PERFORMANCE
Top performance is highly valued in our society. Should success always be based on some kind of performance? Where performance involves rising to meet some kind of measurement. Here is a business related definition of performance: The accomplishment of a given task measured against preset known standards of accuracy, completeness, cost, and speed. What if success were founded on not that which is performance based or, measurable (therefore inherently limited) but instead, rel
What is the measure of success?
Climbing a mountain, reaching a summit, achieving a personal goal - what does this experience bring? It is gratifying isn't it? It gives us a boost, it bolsters our ego, it’s empowering. Can there be a deeper meaning? If success is constantly measured on external things or events - can desire for these things ever be sated? What if success were based on a deeper experience - what if it were turned upsidedown and the journey was the part that mattered and summits became an inc
What if . . .
Instead of travelling to a popular site, why not go somewhere where you are more likely to spot ibex than people. Instead of having a fixed peak as a goal, consider a journey over the course of which spontaneous summits arise. Instead of focusing on the end point, a summit; we stop to observe a bird of prey, the strangeness of the clouds, taste water from a mountain spring and let that experience determine our way. Instead of worrying if we are fit enough, fast enough, strong
