 The other thing you want to do is what I call black swan avoidance or my dirty dozen plus one So let's talk about them Big car regardless of how you feel about the environment and global warming if you want to survive By the biggest freaking vehicle you can afford Take it from an ER doctor force is mass times acceleration at equal speed if you got the bigger car you win Okay, if you can't afford a really big car just make sure your biggest risk in a car accident is to suffocate from all the airbags Okay, that's the number one thing that's going to kill you number two Do not ever get on a four-wheel ATV Okay, that means little four-wheelers that you run around on the beach that means Gators Okay, last week eleven-year-old child driving a gator dead Okay, I had to go tell the mother and mother let him drive the thing Okay, if you want to die if you want to get paralyzed you want to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair Far around on those things Roads are for cars Okay I'm a cyclist. I was a road cyclist all through college. Okay. I had some really close calls I've known two cyclists that were friends of mine that have been killed people jogging on the roadside get killed all the time People are idiots people have always been idiots and my friends that got killed was before text messaging was even invented okay, so Find a place to do it that doesn't involve you and traffic For a pilot what is pilot mean? All right You have great success in life you become a neurosurgeon orthopedic surgeon internet guru you make your millions I'm gonna take up flying Only fly if you're a professional pilot if you're a part-time pilot your skills are not going to manifest well enough For you to not crash that thing and kill yourself So if you're gonna be a pilot be a professional pilot Okay Having said that though Even if you're an amateur pilot Your chances of dying are way smaller than this one Okay He'll dust what does that mean that means if you're walking down the sidewalk here on 4th Street? And you see a group of young men that appeared toxicated or acting puffed up and angry Cross to the other side of the street Don't get your ego tied up in this you don't want to die you don't want to get beat to a pulp Someone tries to have a confrontation to you with you It's great if you have a concealed weapon and you can defend yourself But the better choice is always to choke them with heel dust Run away Just stay out of it. Don't do it because here's the deal if you defend yourself and you kill them Do you want to go into your court system over all that? Now run away Gas grill If your gas grill won't start Walk away Okay, I cannot tell you how many people I have sent out on a helicopter with third-degree burns over 80% of their body Intubated going to the burn Center Because they just couldn't accept that the damn thing's not starting And they let it build up and lots of gas bill and they light it and poof, okay By the way, I highly recommend just getting a plain old-fashioned grill and using charcoal feet first If you're swimming and there's a body of water don't dive in it head first Okay, when I did this whole Tony Robbins thing where we went out We're gonna be on a TV show and it didn't work out But one of the characters in the show whose life was devastated dove into a pool in Acapulco Without looking and it was a bar side pool and there was an underwater bar stool there that was made out broke his neck Paralyzed himself first day of his honeymoon Okay Always check how deep it is that you're diving into you go feet first figured out Then if you want to dive in as deep enough go for it Ladders this is the white man's scourge. I Have seen more middle-aged white dudes Pine box themselves Trying to hang a set of freaking Christmas lights or get a shingle off the roof or whatnot Then I can shake us shake a stick at I mean it is unbelievable Okay, don't keep don't get on ladders hire that out if you can hire anyone to get on a ladder for less money Than you make per hour Do it? Okay Retirement home reason I say this is If you're at retirement age and all of a sudden you've decided you want your dream home Find it and buy it. Don't build it from scratch The number of people that have died from an acute myocardial infarction or cardiac arrhythmia and There we live in a resort area So a lot of people come to build their dream home on the lake The number of people that have died as a result of the stress of fighting with the contractor and trying to build a Home from scratch at retirement age is more than I can count It's a weekly occurrence now. I may be some selection bias there, but Find one that's already built 10 is hell no Okay, so you're out of shopping center and Someone comes up to you. It's particularly true for women Pulls a gun on you says get in the car Your answer is hell no You shoot me right here in this parking lot in front of everyone with the cameras on I ain't going Do not ever get a car in a car at the point of a weapon You will most certainly die, but not until you have really really suffered Hell no bad relationships Okay 15% of the population statistically speaking are psychotic antisocial personality disorders Okay, you're going to encounter some people and when you find your interaction with them is very fatiguing or Makes you emotionally upset and that's a recurrent pattern ditch that person immediately I don't care if it's an employee or a close relationship Or someone that you grew up with or a family member if that is the case get away from them Antisocial psychopaths will suck the soul out of your body and kill you okay? Very fortunately or maybe unfortunately the vast majority of antisocial psychopaths are absorbed by politics The remainder go into crime Which is just a different version of it and number 12 is the lottery Don't play it. Don't do it Unearned wealth will destroy you Money is the biggest truth teller in the world And if you get money that you did not earn it will take you down. You got it. Just Google stories of Lottery winners you don't want to win the lottery you want to be a millionaire You want to earn it? You want to earn every penny of it? Then you can enjoy it you want to destroy your life be a lottery winner be an NFL player NFL stands for not for long The best thing that ever happened to Keith Norris was a career-ending knee injury Okay, the average life expectancy of an NFL football player is 56 years