Line fishing and spear-fishing have a similar outcome (dinner), but there’s a different dynamic going on.
The biggest of which is the way we engage with the environment – the gap between being either above, or below the surface.
With spearfishing, when you climb back into the boat after getting the fish, you’re sometimes asked by a line fisher in another boat near by as they cast their lure out: “What’s it like down there?” or “Are there any big fish down there?” or the classic: “Any sharks around?”
It makes sense. But to be clear on what it’s like down there, really requires that we jump in and look.
Even the best explanation is faulty.
If we want to know, we need to clean the mask, climb overboard and literally get in the water.
A lot of the conversations I’ve had this week have been around creating a new direction this year.. instigating change.
And to not just know, but feel and understand what that change looks like, what is actually involved requires that we dive in and start.
To log in, to participate, to show up passively, or as an observer, or create the hypothetical doesn’t work. There is still too much comfort.
We actually have to seek the discomfort that precedes the clarity and understanding that we are after.
