Here’s a story about Sir Edmund Hillaary: at the top of Mt Everest, he looked around the Himalayas for other peaks to climb.
Just finished re reading Seth Godin’s book ‘The Dip.’ Seth calls them dips, but you could also call them peaks. No one remembers the climbers who got half way up Everest, or three quarters way up. But being the first to the top, well, that’s one for the history books.
But here’s the thing: as soon as you’re at the top, there’s no where else to go but down. And for the smart people, the sooner they look around for other peaks to climb, the better.
And that’s why I liked that story about Sir Ed. He didn’t even wait for his climbing boots to get cold. He figured the best place to look for other peaks to climb was from the top of the highest mountain in the world.
Because, (in his own words) he’d already ‘knocked the bastard off.’
