Bouldering - does size matter?

Life lessons from the rock - whether 30 feet up or 300 feet - the magic is in the work - big or small.    After all,  walking on shallow water is still walking on water . . .

read below from article by adventure author Jon Krakauer.

"John Gill is a living legend to mountain climbers on three continents, a man held in awe by the best in the sport.  Gill's reputation, though, rests entirely on ascents less than thirty feet high.  Make no mistake; his ascents were diminutive, but by no means easy.  The boulders he climbed tended to be overhanging and lacking in fissures substantial enough for lesser climbers even to see, let alone stand on or cling to.

Actually, to Gill's mind, summits aren't even very important.  The real pleasure of bouldering lies more in the doing than in attaining the goal.  'The boulderer is concerned with form almost as much as with success,' says Gill.  'you have to have this natural inclination to dig for something, a strong, completely inner motivation to be on the frontier, to discover things.  The reward is almost continual enlightenment'."