This is a common, and dangerous, form of selection bias that we often see when old successful people give their wise advice to 'live life to the fullest'. Sure, it's easy to wax lyrical about taking chances when you already know that you made it to the end of your natural life in reasonable shape and with a nice amount of material wealth.

The people who did live that way and suffered a career-ending injury, or were killed in some dodgy third world country, or simply died a pauper - nobody cares about their advice.