The speaker avoids activities with high acute injury risk, such as snowboarding, but engages in activities with controllable injury risks.

“I mean I think goggin also has some like Hero Stories of doing something unbroken whatever so maybe for certain people they want that checkbox where they've got that story that can be told about them yeah and I'm in for that too like I when people do insanely crazy I coach athletes many of them I coach a lot of Fighters there's not a single way and there's not a cogent argument I can make that anything that they're ever going to do is good for their long-term Health there's just not right I've got a couple of Fighters that'll be fighting in the sphere in a few weeks it's only taking life away from them yeah at the same time there's no way I could also say you shouldn't do this yeah for so many other reasons so it is just trying to step all the way back is first principal stuff and saying okay are long as you're conscious of the choice you're making I'm certainly not here to judge or even tell you where those lines of values should be established I want you to be aware of the choice you're making because I think most people aren't yeah that is helpful I feel like I feel okay stepping into that but then saying if you choose to Value this epic experience over potential long-term risk your initial question right boy I I can't answer that with science I can't answer that with my experience that's that my values are different when you think about injury risk you have to bucket them differently you have acute injury risk and you have longterm right I don't want to uh mountain bike or Motocross or whatever you're going to do because there's an acute injury risk okay fine that's not no necessarily a long-term overuse sort of risk that's a little bit different if you look at which sport has the highest injury rate most people are going to be stunned with what I say here but you want to take a guess my first thought was basketball but I'm probably yeah given that it's pretty low actually okay like water polo no way down it's way more obvious than you would think or completely unintuitive running running it's not thank you you had it uh soccer's pretty high uh but running is number one now it depends on when you want to play absolute or relative games here in terms of injury rate but why a ton of people do it they're unprepared for it and they jump way up yeah and mileage so if you want to reduce injury risk oh I see they they violate that 10% they violate it all right they jump in they don't do it well they're not prepared for it boom foot knee back and they run mileage on very little progression so what I would say is yeah sure like I don't want to you may want to think I don't I'm not going to snowboard anymore because there's a very high acute yeah injury risk of that I would also think what about your running you're at a higher risk there you're so what are you going to do here so I don't worry about it personally terms of acute injury risk I actually like things that are fairly High acute injury risk I don't snowboard or ski things like that but many other things I do where I cut my risk is the other side of the equation I don't want to do anything that is a controllable injury risk I'm not going to run a bunch of mileage if I'm not moving well that's 100% controllable whether or not I get hurt hiking up and down a mountain or something I can't control that but I want that I I want that life experience”