My decision didn’t come overnight, of course. It was a long process of training and weighing risk. But I knew the harder I trained and prepared, the lower the risk could potentially be. I say “potentially” because there are just too many unseen obstacles. Failure. Quitting. Being dropped for underperformance. Severe injury. Death. But I knew that deciding not to take on this challenge would lead to bad problems. Regret. Depression. Mediocrity. Always asking, “What if?” Naturally, my decision to leap over the wall of my comfort zone and race off into the abyss would come with new problems. New
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