Comments on: Risk as a downhill ski run, Bode Miller style http://www.dogwalkblog.com/risk-as-a-downhill-ski-run-bode-miller-style.html Rational thought has gone to the dogs! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:32:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Eric Hatch http://www.dogwalkblog.com/risk-as-a-downhill-ski-run-bode-miller-style.html/comment-page-1#comment-2594 Eric Hatch Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:25:12 +0000 http://www.dogwalkblog.com/?p=3444#comment-2594 I've been a skier since I was 8, which was when the glaciers left. It took me many years to learn that the safest, as well as fastest, way down the mountain is to commit yourself to the fall line. In deep powder on steep slopes, you simply have to take off the brakes and do it. Fear makes you late in your turns. Hesitation makes you miss your line. You just have to commit to the hill and go .... and when you do, it feels like nothing else on earth. This is literal, but it works as a metaphor for the rest of your life as well. Fear makes you hold back, but commitment brings the joy. I’ve been a skier since I was 8, which was when the glaciers left. It took me many years to learn that the safest, as well as fastest, way down the mountain is to commit yourself to the fall line. In deep powder on steep slopes, you simply have to take off the brakes and do it. Fear makes you late in your turns. Hesitation makes you miss your line. You just have to commit to the hill and go …. and when you do, it feels like nothing else on earth.

This is literal, but it works as a metaphor for the rest of your life as well. Fear makes you hold back, but commitment brings the joy.

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