Why I Disagree with Safety First // Spartan STAND 009

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be more cautious about always over-prioritizing Safety above everything else.

Using the phrase “Safety First” as a default teases us to not engage in the critical conversations revolving around risk assessment, risk mitigation, and risk acceptance. It feeds risk aversion and zero defects mentality. It can create mindless procedural automation. And, it can also create the exact hesitation that leads to increased danger or threat.
I like to tell my loved ones to “Be Smart” not “Be Safe”. I feel it implies much more and automatically includes the elements of safety consciousness.

LESSONS:
Without Risk, there can be no Reward.
Appropriate Risk
Being smart includes the elements of reasonable risk and safety.

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans back with you on Spartan Stan and today I want to talk to you about a
0:04.2	little phrase we've heard called safety first.
0:09.2	The Marine Corps it's common that you could walk up to a marine, a stranger, if he was a marine, you could say safety, and they'll respond automatically with,
0:19.2	is paramount, sir, it's something that was drilled into us in boot camp safety is paramount safety is
0:23.9	paramount and it's a kind of a running joke and it was so ingrained into us that
0:28.8	safety safety safety safety is always got to be at the forefront of our minds.
0:34.7	I think that's good.
0:35.4	I think it's well intended.
0:36.7	I don't think it's not appropriate and I don't want to dismiss safety.
0:41.3	We hear in the civilian world, we hear safety first, safety first a lot.
0:44.0	a lot.
0:45.0	And what I want to do is just raise some awareness of how that could condition you to go down a path that's
0:51.0	inhibiting you from achieving success that you want. I think safety first mentality
0:56.1	is fear-based. It's fear-based that I don't want a loved one to get hurt. I think it's valid.
1:02.4	But if we always don't want our loved ones to get hurt, I think it's valid. But if we always don't want our loved ones to get hurt, will they ever learn? Will they ever develop and grow? Sometimes a toddler needs to fall down and bang his head on the floor. Now I don't want him to
1:15.2	split their skull open on the concrete. So now we're starting to entertain this conversation between
1:20.7	you know risk aversion versus risk mitigation maybe I'll let my toddler walk on the
1:26.9	carpet without trying to coddle them but I won't let them walk down the driveway or
1:30.7	even worse the street, right?
1:32.9	So it's not necessarily safety for,
1:34.3	it's safety appropriate might even be a better way to phrase it.
1:38.8	I think a safety first mentality can lead into zero defects.
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