It's not about safe. It's about safER.

Beginner/expert has nothing to do with it either. We rescue as many experts as we do beginners. The attitude that you are impervious to random events by dint of your vast wealth of knowledge and experience is false bravado.
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki

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