You are assured to have a much better view on the company than any Oxford grad climbing the slippery pole in some brokerage in the Square Mile.

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Drivers climbing the greasy pole of motorsport have to pay their own way, and the tricky point comes when your financial backing fails to match up to the budget required of the next step.

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Like the pole-climbing exercise, it's about executing a task that feels impossible but isn't.

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Mice which did not have climbing and investigating opportunities fell off the pole by the time they were 18 weeks old.

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At Miraval, Life in Balance, guests are invited to try any number of "challenge" activities--balancing a feather on the palm of the hand, climbing (while tethered) the 25-foot Quantum Leap pole and then jumping off, learning to approach a horse and pick up its hooves.

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