“Then, in a moment of clarity, I realized why I like trying hard problems. It’s the intimacy. And the closer you get to the threshold of what you can do, the more intimate everything must be; it’s like you have to get inside the rock as well as yourself, and see how it thinks. To learn to look, and look ever harder, at yourself, the rock, and everything around that affects the moves. To draw the map perfectly and learn it so well that you can follow it without thinking…
It all comes from the inside. It’s all about effort. It’s what it means to you. Numbers and grades will never sum it all up.”
— Niall Grimes, from Climbing #195
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