Thank you for this insight into your private explorations. I very much like to read them. Also, it differs greatly from my own way of exploring the world. I never camped in the wilderness where bears were present. We only canoed through our landscapes and met some cow herds with big horns :) I wasn't in the least afraid of them but would not have provoked anything dumb. I would be fearful in the presence of wilder animals, that's for sure. I can follow your arguments here very well.

Though I would say it's not fear if your blood pressure is steady, it's reduced to a healthy form of caution/awareness but it's not fear or anxiety. To find oneself relaxed in a potentially dangerous environment is probably the best thing which can happen to human beings. They are then more like animals who graze the grass peacefully, until a predator appears and they start acting instinctively in the given situation. Once, the danger is over, they start again to graze relaxed.

We all are fooled, too, from time to time. Just as it does us no good to tremble with anxiety because there are threats, neither do we benefit from denial, or too powerful shame for getting sucked into some scam.

Yes, that is very true. It seems very hard for humans to admit mistakes and to accept ones own foolishness, also with some humor to it.

I have personified the helpless inventor for most of my life. I am still working on inventions, on funding them and the time and place to work on them. However I have seen several of them be produced by others, and have realized that I am not necessary to humanity to bring such things into existence. Plenty of others have the same ideas, and some of them are in better circumstances to make them.

Another wise insight, yes. This happened to me too. Sometimes we were really close to be the first movers but it never happened. But it was exciting while we were in our invention phases.

Thanks for letting me also see this side of your personality.