You are conflating focus with fear and risk/reward evaluation. Those are not at all related, though, when focused you might be able to see another way out that was not apparent when you were just afraid and not focused.
A panicked jump into a roaring river can kill you just a surely as a well reasoned one.
But that smoldering fire to your left contains a branch long enough that waving it around a couple of times creates a flame an lions are scared of fire.
(If you can conjure up Lions, rivers and green grass to make your point I don't see why my imaginary fire is an illegal device. It could have been a machine gun for the same money, you'd dine on lion steak and congratulate yourself for not trying to swim to the other side of the river).
A panicked jump into a roaring river can kill you just a surely as a well reasoned one.
But that smoldering fire to your left contains a branch long enough that waving it around a couple of times creates a flame an lions are scared of fire.
(If you can conjure up Lions, rivers and green grass to make your point I don't see why my imaginary fire is an illegal device. It could have been a machine gun for the same money, you'd dine on lion steak and congratulate yourself for not trying to swim to the other side of the river).