Let's say you fall off a ladder.

Don't worry, you won't get hurt in this mental game in this scenario.

It's just for pretend, but you're going to fall off a ladder.

As you fall of the ladder, what do you feel?

You feel the pull of gravity.

For a moment, you're hanging in midair.

You feel that sensation of free fall. The gravity of the earth is accelerating you down and then

bam, you actually slam into the ground and get hurt. Ask yourself, what would happen if that ladder

were, I don't know, on a beach next to the ocean?

You would get hurt.

You know, the sand might cushion your fall, but you would still fall.

You'd still hit the ground with the exact same speed.

What if you took that exact same ladder and brought it up to the top of Mount Everest?

Like, now you're in base camp, you're all the way at the top.

You're at the sum of the highest point on Earth.

You put that ladder up.

You climb up the ladder so you're the tallest thing in the world.

And then you fall off the ladder and you hit the ground.

Right there, the peak of Mount Everest.

I'm not going to ask why you would do that, but it's for the

purposes of this metaphor. When you fall the distance off the ladder, when you hit the ground,

whether it's on the top of Mount Everest or on a nice, warm sandy beach, you're going to feel

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