A leap of faith
I spent a lot of Free Solo peeking through my fingers, waiting for disaster to strike. I was on a flight to visit family and had decided to watch the documentary about climber Alex Honnold's extraordinary, rope-free ascent of the 900-meter sheer cliff face of El Capitan. I have no head for heights, and maneuvering up a rock face is the last thing you'd find me doing. Yet one moment gave me an odd jolt of recognition. In it, Honnold has to let go of one set of handholds, step out over the void, and land on the next hold—just knowing that it will work out. It's a true leap of faith that made me think of the step into the unknown I had just made in my own career.
> “I was suspended in the void, not yet safely on the other side of my career transition.”
A few years earlier, I was an astronomer with a tenured position at a major international observatory, but something wasn't right. I just wasn't that into galaxies anymore. I had been living off the grid in rural Hawaii, raising animal
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