Boring world and super fitness

People have a cognitive bias that makes them think interesting things happen. For example, I've swum a lot, but I've never seen anyone drown. In fact, that's level one interesting thing, and you only see it by chance or if you've been working in the field for a long time. There are level two coincidences that make the news, but even an experienced investigator will never encounter a maniac, on average. Level three interesting things don't exist in nature. And level four interesting things are physically impossible. Say, an eccentric oligarch who suddenly starts caring about specific workers is level three, which in reality, if you look into it, would quickly become level one, even though such plots are constantly featured in TV series. Magic, on the other hand, is level four, and half the stories are about it, even though it can't exist. The bias is that people expect to regularly see level one and sometimes level two, even though even level one is either good luck or very bad luck. Super fitness is simply acting appropriately in the world, assuming it's normal. Let's say when you're looking for an extreme experience, you'll jump off a garage or into a snowdrift, rather than into a safe, dangerous situation: the risk of drowning in a very warm wetsuit in icy water or being improperly secured when jumping off a mountain is the same as with free IRL activities. The cheap option is supposedly better because it gives you experience for real-life situations. And the scam of businesses that build their approach on "we'll give you something incredibly dangerous to play with in a safe environment" is built on the fact that the "I jumped off a cliff" story sounds incredibly cool and maintains a sense of excitement in our boring, uniform world. Super fitness isn't about skills; it's about the willingness to use a million real-life safety systems that society has created just in case. Like, they're just people and buildings around you. If something unusual happens, you just go for help and everything's fine. Yeah, it's boring. But the world is boring. And you don't have to look for something interesting. Only useful banal asymmetries to live with.