"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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than just the common experiences. A good tripsitter can handle not just the standard trip, but also the occasional insane or rare trip, and this skill difference is hard to see at first glance. What other professions seem easy, but have their value in preparedness for outliers?
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Replying to @an0nynoir
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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yeah absolutely, i learned my lesson after that. I couldn't reassure him, he didn't know I existed. I mostly tried to sit on him and cover his mouth so he didn't freak out the neighbors.
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