The idea for Don’t Lift was created from the metaphor often used in high performance circuit driver-coaching where to lift off the accelerator could cause the vehicle to go out of control through lift-off oversteer.
All too often in life it’s important to “keep on the gas”. Colin McCrae famously coined, “If in doubt, flat out”.
It quickly became apparent that Momentum Becomes Mastery.
In nature there are many examples where keeping moving is the difference between life and death, and so it is often the same for us fragile humans.
On the clocktower in Hereford at Stirling Lines reads the poem:
But who are ye in rags and rotten shoes, you dirty-bearded, blocking up the way?
We are the Pilgrims, master: we shall go Always a little further: it may be beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow, across that angry or that glimmering sea.