I’ll be upfront: I stole the title for this post from Gordon Livingston’s book The Thing You Think You Cannot Do. I am yet to read it but the title spoke to me, so I decided to write about it.
That thing you think you cannot do. I have so many of them. A little over a year ago, my partner expressed his desire to sky dive. I looked at him as if his hair was on fire and set the record straight: You’re free to do it, but I won’t accompany you.
Of course, I was afraid. What happens after the dive? How would the whole thing feel? Will I be safe? Will I die?
(Although, I now know that one’s at a higher risk of dying by driving than sky diving. If you drive, your chance to die in a car wreck is 1 in 6,000 versus that of sky diving, which is 1 in 100,000.)
On the surface, it sounds I’m afraid of the activity of diving, but when I look closer, I can see this pattern in many areas of my life and lives of my clients.
It’s called the fear of the unknown. No rocket science there.
That reminds me of a story my grandma used to tell me when I was little.
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