The Importance of Whims in Life

The Iceman, the guy who climbs Mount Everest in his shorts and no shirt on, didn't make it to the top of Everest. He got frostbite. Or he has this record supposedly of swimming underneath Arctic sea ice. And yet we still hold him on a pedestal for that. The thing is that whim keeps on pushing himself to his limits and hurting himself. We don't need to continue to do that.