Cristina Zenato

Cristina Zenato Instagram – Learn horizontally, not only vertically.
It is one of the biggest recommendation I can give when people ask me how to grow professionally, not only in diving.
In my case it includes learning skills that I might not always depend on from a professional point of view, but that add good characteristics to my overall figure and possibility of obtaining an opportunity.
A perfect example of this is when in 2015 I received the invite to participate in a special Nat Geo expedition.
The expedition required advanced cave diving skills, survey and mapping experience, and fairly good knowledge of the systems we were completing the work in.
As it happened, in the previous decade I had spent a lot of time learning and growing said skills and traveling back and forth to these specific caves to dive them as much as I could. At a glance these trips and these skills “cost” me a lot of time and even more money, but they allowed me to grow in what I consider laterally, creating the perfect candidate for the expedition.
The concept of the horizontal is to learn things we are interested in, even if they might not seem directly related to the professional level at which we want to be.
They create a platform that expands with time and allows us to not only reach higher, but to stand firmer on the new grounds we are venturing through.
Image by @kewinlorenzen during our recent trip to Socorro
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