If you know the high rate you have experienced is due to such factors at least dont suggest others are temeracious in expecting their experience to be very difference.
However high or low one's rate of in-flight engine failures, one should ALWAYS be prepared to handle one. At least, that's what this newbie pilot was taught, and I'll stick to it until proven wrong.
What IS the "normal" rate of such failures? When I experienced my own, suggestions were "one occurence per 10.000 hours of flight" - sustained by the local pilot of legend, who had some 40.000 hours logged, and did suffer exactly 4 engine failures.