Climbing mountains

Many would have heard the sharpening of the axe story (see below if you haven’t). The picture we have in our minds is the lumberjack with an axe  chopping trees down. I used this other visualisation instead — the mountain climber with a pick-axe. The lumberjack story was told in a different time. Today chopping down trees is negative. Also, we have moved from a production economy to a skilled- and knowledge-based economy. And climbing mountains is more like what we do. Continue reading →