This is a good thing. There are many ways to increase safety on a table saw. Grr-Ripper is one that really helps. Keep the blade guards on even when they're annoying.
Develop a habit of keeping thumbs folded in, NEVER OUT. Think through your cuts and rehearse them so you don't do something that will put your parts in the path of the blade. Make a sled. Pop for a good miter gauge. Make a number of different kinds of push blocks, shapes, thicknesses.
Treat the saw with real respect. Someone on here mentioned hanging a laser above the saw with the line going across the blade, so you are aware when you cross into the path of the blade. Don't get any soft parts in that path, ever, including reaching over or across the blade.
I can't bring myself to put my hands closer than about 6 inches from the blade without some sort of safety device.
It doesn't matter whether you have the SawStop or something like it, if you ever discharge the cartdriige, you've violated one of these safety rules and practices and put yourself in danger.