Synthetic risk taking

There was an article in the Sunday Age near another piece about the deaths of young drivers. It suggested that teenagers and young adults cannot properly process risk. The author Reid Sexton quoted an academic from Monash Uni, Simon Crisp, who used the prase above. It refers to a lack of 'real' risk in young peoples lives and experience with only the mediated kind where energy packs or special effects determine the outcome. This is probably true, actually hurting yourself can be an education, as can achieving calculated risky goals. It's as important to understand and respect your limits as it is to push them. For this I have a suggestion.

Skate

board

-ing!


and maybe riding a BMX too.

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Skateboard photos by Brooks Fritz & Jefferson Todd
BMX photo by Brinx
Original article at The Age