“ If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.”
“Just” do it safely. If it’s safe, you are not really taking chances.
Let yourself fall down more
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#12I've gotten much more cautious since I had a fall a few years ago and realized that I'm not so invulnerable now. I was ice skating - I'm a very good skater and grew up on skates around the same time I learned to walk and played on traveling hockey teams my entire youth. Someone fell on the ice and I reached down and was helping them up when my skates slipped out from under me. I fell backwards and cracked the back of my head on the ice. I swear I felt my brain slosh in my head. Luckily no concussion or other injury but since then I've just taken way fewer risks and I don't plan on changing that.
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#13Falling down when you're 50+ is a HELLAVA lot riskier than falling down when you're younger. This appears to be a blog post about risk tolerance - which of course changes dramatically depending on lots of factors. If I fall as a middle-aged person, I'm much more likely to cause permanent, irreparable harm to myself - which, maybe not worth the rewards.
Came here to say this. I don't want to fall down not because I fear the fall, I fear the not getting up.
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#14“ If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.” “Just” do it safely. If it’s safe, you are not really taking chances.
Survivor bias is a helluva drug
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#15> If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.
And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to do unsafe things...
This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.
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#16Falling is a skill like any other - the more you fall, the better you get at it.
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#17Falling is a skill like any other - the more you fall, the better you get at it.
90 year olds must be excellent at falling then. At least way better than toddlers.
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#19> But the thing is? Falling doesn't have to be dangerous Every time you use a question mark in place of a comma? A kitten dies.
question marks for non-questions drive me crazy. when i read them i hear an annoying tone, that's all. makes me vomit.
I hope you appreciate the irony of your distaste for people's mis-punctuation while also Altman-casing your objection.
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#20I picked up inline skating at ~39, I realized that for all my cycling and lifting my balance and propreoception was crap and skiing once a year wasn't going to solve that problem.
I slapped on all the padding I could and it took me nearly a year to get my bodyweight outside of my feet and really carve at high speed. Why? Because my flexibility, strength and muscle activation all had weird gaps.
I ended up getting a slackboard as well about a year in.
I am basically impossible to knock over now, I can wear sperrys on ice, my legs and core are incredibly strong in a way lifting heavy never accomplished, I no longer have weird little muscle pains, all the muscles are strong.
When cycling I used to have occasional knee pain in my left exterior of my knee. No longer.
I've found 3 fast stretches to do after... I mean, rollerblading is basically yoga (which I find boring) at 15mph with pebbles and no ability to bail, it's fucking awesome and pretty damn hard.
I wear all the pads and it's glorious, I'm ~40 and I haven't felt this athletic since my late 20s.
I was getting sore before I started, that creeping old man shit, now I skate between 3 and 30 miles a week and its great. I skiied 3 days straight at 11k ft elevation and had no muscle soreness and no multi day fade, it was unreal.