Fireside Chat Ep. 191 — The Problem with a "Safety" Obsession

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

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Self-improvement, Education, How To

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dennis reflects on this past year’s newfound obsession with “safety.” The price for "playing it safe" at everything in life is not fully living. Later, he addresses Juneteenth, our new national holiday, and the U.S. military going woke. Subscribe so you never miss a new Fireside Chat! 👉 https://www.prageru.com/series/fireside-chats/

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager on it's the FireSide Chat. I asked the number beforehand so as to avoid
0:08.0	having you have to hear me ask Megan. What number is it?
0:15.9	I thought I remember it correctly but I wasn't sure. 199v1. That's an ode to doing something regularly.
0:25.4	You get a lot more accomplished than if you bunch things up and then don't do anything.
0:31.8	Anyway, welcome to the FireSide Chat. It is for those of you not familiar. It is a chance for me to
0:37.7	just spontaneously offer you ideas. There is no script. It is no teleprompter. Well, that would imply
0:47.5	a script. It's just a chance to offer you some of my thoughts about life, about what's going on,
0:53.9	and then take your questions. You now see Snoopy is with the world famous Otto. I decided to talk to
1:03.3	you about the current highest value. There are a few competitions. I guess
1:12.8	the highest value. But this one is positive sounding. It is being safe.
1:24.2	Safe. You know, it's safe has gotten so holy if I may use that term that people often say now,
1:32.8	not bye bye, take care. See you tomorrow. Be safe. This is the new thing and I got to tell you I
1:42.4	can't stand it. I mean, obviously I don't yell at somebody who says be safe. They mean well.
1:49.8	But it's a bad, bad thing. If I had followed the admonition to be safe my whole life,
1:58.1	I would not be here on this FireSide Chat. You would have no idea who I am. I never played it safe.
2:07.0	It never even occurred to me. Is it safe? You know when is it safe occurs to me? I'll tell you when.
2:15.9	Obviously, if I were to take a new medication. So I would ask the doctor is it safe for
2:23.6	experience of time? Is it safe if I were to go bungee jumping? I would have how safe is it? But as a rule
2:33.9	in my life, I never asked, is it safe? And I have been blessed because of that. Because if you play
2:43.1	it safe, you will not live a full life. And we have raised now two generations, if not three, to be safe.
2:54.5	The examples are so legion that I can, I could spend the whole half hour just talking about
3:03.4	example, just giving you examples. When I was a kid, do you know the people who owned a swimming pool?
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