If you walk sideways on a steep mountain, it’s flat. The easiest way up a steep slope is to take the winding path of switchbacks that make a steep slope less steep as you zig and zag your way up. This makes the journey less steep but longer. You can do it the other way too sometimes, and tackle the steepness head on.
But the hardest part of the journey is when there’s a patch of steepness that’s followed by a flat part or a magnificent view that you haven’t seen yet. It’s so easy to quit when the prize is just around the corner, or just up the hill. We just don’t know that it’s there.
Sometimes, there are no maps.
But surely, undiscovered prizes are more likely to lie up hills that most people don’t want to climb up just to look over.