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I had an experience that drove the second point home for me.

We were doing a white water kayak course. At this school it was tradition at the end of each day to paint one of our fingernails for each time you capsized. First day, our group was kind of smug about the fact that we only got maybe one or so each, while another group had basically both hands painted already. So we said something to that effect to our trainer, and he just says 'Yeah, because they are trying way harder to push their limits.'.

He was right of course, and the next day we took way more risks as well. Made the whole thing even more fun, and it was definitely a good lesson.