Just as last month was dedicated to surfing in CA, so is this month and the winter season focused on snowboarding in UT, WY, MT, and CO with the IKON pass.
2 thoughts have continued to stick with me as I have been enjoying the season:
- Living on the slope
- Slippery slopes
This first idea of “living on the slope” is a key theme for ZS, the management consulting firm that I am proud to be apart of. It’s the idea that, although at times steep, being on the slope with our learning and development is where we want to be. It is on the slope that we can be “out of our comfort zone,” try new tricks, and enjoy the adrenaline rush of getting better. With proper guidance, this is the quickest way to progress from Greens to Blues to Blacks, to no longer having any doubts about going down any slope. The end result of this is to feel comfortable being in uncomfortable situations, and to know that regardless of any situation or task, you can/will figure it out.
Nobody ever became a pro skier or snowboarder by staying on the bunny slopes.
This second idea is quite different. It is something that my philosophy classes in college brought up, but are also quite relevant to skiing and life. The slippery slope is saying that if A starts to happen, Z will eventually occur. Often used to describe unethical situations, it can be compared to the idiom: “oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Although there are some valid arguments about the fallacy with the slippery slope logic (using extreme hypotheticals to prove a point), I still feel like there are situations in our life where this happens. Just as an inexperienced skier may start to slide down a mountain uncontrollably, without the ability to stop, so might someone develop a bad habit in their life and continue down that path for a lot longer than originally intended.
Here’s to a successful ski season to us all, where we “live on the slope” with our trials/endeavors and avoid those “slippery slopes” of our bad habits.
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