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The art of leaping before looking, then bragging about the view on the way down.

means A tendency to act suddenly on impulse, with passion outrunning planning and consequences arriving uninvited.

from From Latin impetus, an assault or rushliterally a charge forward, the same root that gives us impetus and impulse.

Same rootShares ancestry with impetus, the forward shove itself.
Storm cousinOnce described weather: violent, rushing, unstoppable winds.
Brain scienceTied to a still-developing prefrontal cortex in youth.
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