The Art of Accomplishment

What is Safety? Applying Lessons From Extreme Sports to Life and Business

Nov 11, 2022

Explore the intriguing relationship between safety and risk through extreme sports like skydiving. Discover how the concept of safety can evoke both comfort and distress. Learn about the balance between excitement and danger, and how addressing risks can enhance decision-making in both sports and business. The discussion emphasizes the importance of cultivating internal security to thrive in high-pressure situations. Finally, uncover how embracing failure can lead to resilience and true inner strength during life’s challenging moments.

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Balance Develops Through Practice

00:35

Safety is Subjective: Comfort over Certainty

00:37

Embrace Excitement, Acknowledge Fear

00:47

Intro

2min

The Illusion of Safety in Extreme Sports

8min

The Importance of Addressing Risks in Sports and Business

3min

Cultivating Internal Security for Optimal Performance

4min

Embracing Failure: Finding Security through Life's Challenges

5min

In our previous episode, Joe and Brett talked about how seeing through limiting beliefs can be scary because we're not sure we'll be safe. This is an especially relevant concern in the realm of high-risk activities like skydiving and BASE Jumping. In today's episode, we explore how Brett's relationship with the idea of safety has changed over the course of a decades-long career in adventure sports.

They discuss:

1:54 - What is safety?
5:32 - Safety as an idea can bring us comfort or distress
9:20 - The concept of safety as detachment or contact with reality
11:17 - Business and safety
13:23 - Grounded and ungrounded excitement
14:26 - Applying lessons from safety in airsports to business life
16:48 - Internal stability and flow
19:55 - Learning to be secure is learning to fall - a story
24:26 - Finding our inherent innate stability

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