Ep. 23 - On risk and reward, and resilience as a rider.
Imagine yourself as a mouse in a house where there is cheese available on the opposite side of the room to your mouse hole. But there is also a cat. Which is more real to you, the reward, or the risk? Your perception of one might far out way your perception of the other. Or you might not care about either, or you might be aware of both. This is the most stressful situation, and it mirrors wanting to ride, but also being nervous.Skilled, resilient riders can both generate a lot of rightness, and tolerate a lot of wrongness - they have lots of ‘brainspace’, and the sense of plenty of time. Courage is moving in the face of fear, it isn’t not feeling fear. Strategies to help nervous riders who are easily triggered.