Skydiving, base jumping, skiing, it’s a demanding sport. To make it 20 years without major injuries was pretty good.

Getting Back to Life

I didn’t want to get back up in the air to skydive. It was more to just get back to life.

You can certainly pave the way, you know, to an increased probability of worst case scenario stuff playing out.

We’re capable. We’re that powerful, which means we’re like likewise just as powerful to, you know, fully embody our dreams, fully embody our belief that we can influence things in a positive manner and and create a different outcome.

This is just function. It’s not a personality. To truly be an archetypal hero, there has to be a fall from grace and that resurrection of the human spirit to build back up. And of course, your life may be different, but it can still be inspired.

It can still be free and unlimited in in the ways that matter. Every time somebody gets back up in some form or other, they they really are being a hero.

They’re demonstrating to themselves who they really are, you know, demonstrating resilience.

That that’s that’s our nature.

It is a a matter of centimeters to a good landing to a catastrophic landing. And whatever I did was just put me a little bit lower than I wanted to be.

When everybody was asking me what was going through my mind, there wasn’t anything. It was a normal flight. I just messed up. There is no cause to it. It was an accident.

What boosts our confidence and softens the fear more than anything is to know who you are.

To know that you’ve solved emergency situations before again and again. Proof is you not being dead. You know, it’s not that easy to stay alive on this planet. There’s a million different ways to die.

And yet somehow you’re here, which says that your awareness, your presence, and your ability to think your way through scenarios is commendable.