Awe!(some)

The snowboarders in the Olympics blow me away. How do they practice this without killing themselves?

Here, failure is clear. Very clear. You screw up snowboarding and everyone sees it and you suffer for your failure.

There are areas of non-physical behavior (thinking, feeling) in which there also is clarity about success and failure but we've lost our sensitivity to it, certainly so in my lifetime. Now, it  seems, many believe one opinion is as good as another with respect to knowledge. Without this degradation of clear thinking, the Trump phenomenon would not be possible. Farce would not have become tragedy.