The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love

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If you're a 30 year old male and you can think about what's the chance that you just randomly die on a given day, let's compare that to some different activity. So if you fly a thousand miles in a commercial airplane, that's like taking a 1.1 additional days of risk,. According to this data, participating in a triathlon might be about almost five days of risk. "I've done a little bit of this with people where they have one path in life and they think that that's the right one"

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How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life outcomes? What are some low-hanging fruit in the realm of self-improvement? What are some useful behavior change frameworks and techniques?

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world's first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia's first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today's Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major / quadruple minor. Find more about him at jamesnorris.org and upgradable.org.

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