"Preparedness for the outlier" is a type of training that often goes invisible. For example, *lots* of people consider themselves great tripsitters, and they probably are for the majority of trips - but actual preparedness is when they've experienced and are ready to handle more-
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I don't know if this is true, but this is sort of my read on therapy. I imagine it's easy for most people to nod and listen and ask basic insightful questions, but the real skill of a therapist is being able to handle this if it turns out to be more serious or extreme.
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Can we get an example of a rare and insane trip?
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I tripsat one guy who completely lost contact with physical reality (kept knocking over furniture and walking into walls), and screamed nonsense at people in his head, and tossed me around because he didn't understand I was a person. It was really scary.
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Rock climbing has a lot of this. Outlier cases: stuck ropes, dropped gear, medical emergencies (much harder to deal with if you’re on the side of a cliff). A common thread here is needing to improvise or do without the resources you’d typically have, like 911
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Don’t know if it seems easy, but being a commercial airline pilot. Hundreds of uneventful flights and then “Miracle on the Hudson.” Imo we tend to praise professionals for the moment they handle an outlier, when maybe it should be for the drilling and preparing for them.
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You should read The Black Swan by
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Pilot. (Maybe "seems easy" is wrong, but the skills you'll need for the modal 97% of plane flights take maybe 40 hours to learn, being able to reliably survive the other 3% another 1500 at least.)
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