"When your climber's stuck up there, you've only got two choices: (1) switch climbers, or (2) let them keep trying, but until when?
"It's not just about giving them one more chance. It's estimating how long it'll take for all the things to work. It might feel tedious to have them lower down and switch climbers all over again, but if it takes two hours for them just to 'give it one more try'?
"And so much more than that. Are we pushing it through? Are we changing the plans because it'd be too dark if we were to push through? If we were to take this path, how long would it take to go back down? How about the other path?
"Rock climbing is eerily unpredictable. That's why you plan your climb as perfectly as you can, because even then it still won't go as you wish—at which point you have to wing it up there, and quickly.
"But oftentimes each strand of the choices themselves are limited, and straightforward. But you have to make it.
"Whatever happens, never stop and get stuck in a deadlock—because you won't be going anywhere that way."
Charlotte froze, mentally struck and her hip painfully harness-struck, as she listened to Dave's lecture.
It was hard-truth slapped on her face, and left her wonder why she's that indecisive, perhaps not just up there, but all this time in her life.
Deadlock. It's always been Charlotte's escape in the face of anything—but now she even grows to hate it itself.
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