“Sometimes the only way back up is down. It’s 1994. I went ice climbing and fell into a crevasse. I hurt my leg, and I couldn’t climb back up, so fighting every natural instinct, doing the thing that seemed most awful to me, I climbed down into the darkness, and that’s how I got out.”
-Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock.
Welcome to the first in a series of posts I have entitled “Into the Crevasse.” As you have probably guessed from the quote, the idea of climbing back down into the crevasse is about making un-intuitive or even painful decisions with cold, hard logic.