In most sports your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.
Learning how to fly for me was so euphoric.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.