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"But how do you stop water from going up your nose?" "Nose clip"        As Tim Harford suggests, chaos is an important part of life that should be embraced, not avoided. He claims that it encourages progressive solutions and superior alternatives to habits, and I couldn't agree more. In synchronized swimming, there is always pure chaos under water. Sculling, lifting, kicking, swimming. To add on to that your basically half blind and everything is blurry because you can't wear goggles. How to get scored higher? Get closer. What does that entail? Kicking each other under water. What can that lead to? Getting kicking or smacked in the face and consequently getting your nose clip knocked off.      If that happens, the show must go on. Right?      I once had a team mate with a knee injury. A day before her small routine competition at nationals, she had a really bad episode of pain, and our team held its breath as she dove into the pool with ...