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Pursue the best
Divers are part of an elite that accounts for less than 0.1% of the people on the planet.
We are all driven by personal dreams and goals. An infinite variety of adventures that the other 99.9% cannot understand.
Unexpected
But tricky plateaus in our diving skills progression can make our dives boring. While more obvious adversities like stress, fear and technical limitations can make our dives too demanding.
Awareness
In both cases, fun and adventure are precluded. We could even arrive at quitting diving, causing us to lose all the time and energy we have dedicated to it.
A dream that becomes a nightmare.
Avoid negativity
How to avoid all this negativity?
By emulating what expert divers did during their path to excellence.
What is the most important single aspect on the path of any expert diver?
It's not the time, nor the amount of dives done.
It is the capacity to continue progressing and improving when not engaged in any course.
Unless we want to take courses for our entire diving career, technical skills and awareness need to improve even and especially during our fun dives.
Gray areas
All courses have gray areas, topics that have been glossed over or even completely omitted.
A gray area is not necessarily a mistake.
Sometimes they are actually necessary to avoid making courses too long or overwhelming.
All divers have to face the same gray areas.
Some divers cope with them better than others.
But only divers able to close these gaps will prosper and grow.
The others will become stranded on a plateau, with many even starting to regress.
Missing piece
Expert divers overcame gray areas almost always due to their personal characteristics.
An instinctive process that happens without a diver's conscious thought.
Divers do what they have to do, without even thinking about what they're doing so well to become an expert.
But some divers need to learn what gray areas are. They need to learn how to overcome plateaus and adversities.
Traditional courses do not teach how to progress after the conclusion of the course itself. And they do not teach how to deal actively with stress, fear, and technical limitations too.
What's next?
Often we hear suggestions like 'Don't worry, with time you will improve.'
But this is not true.
There are many divers who, after several years of diving and logged dives, still have problems to solve, or plateaus to overcome.
Ad many others who have stopped diving due to unsolved problems or dives too boring.
Time is not synonymous with improvement and we should act before difficulties or boredom ruin our diving dreams.
To improve, we need information.
Likely the information that hasn't been addressed yet.
Because the path to our excellence cannot be a matter of chance.
Go to the Briefing page for an overview of gray areas, problems, and, of course, solutions.
