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The base is made up of certainties—that is, the things we have been able to put into the boxes and are confident we have in place—which are managed or manageable, or are irrelevant to us.
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One of the most popular battles for armchair divers and Internet warriors is that of training versus experience. You hear it all the time: “I don't need a certification card for that dive. I've been doing dives like that for years.”
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Ego simply refers to self and how we feel about ourselves. This results in our thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Where an ego is arrogant, overbearing, misguided or delusional, then bad things can and often do happen.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...
Yours is the world and everything that's in it...
— excerpts from the poem, "If", by Rudyard Kipling
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Recently, while working my day job, I was at Heathrow Airport in London for three days to work with a group of very talented executives who ran a successful multinational company.
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Over the years, I have had the privilege of being involved in some fantastic teams, sometimes in a leadership role, sometimes as an advisor helping to form a great team, and in others, as a team member.
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But let's look at this seriously for a minute. Why do these things appeal to us? Why do we like to be recognised and to have a group identity?
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Until you get into deep trimix or cave diving training, there is little emphasis in diving qualifications on anything other than meeting performance-based skill standards.
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Surprisingly perhaps it is not the most talented that always succeed.
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A good few years ago, I was a newly minted sports psychologist.
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We have become “conditioned” to stress being a negative issue, and of course “distress” is extremely negative and often debilitating.
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