You hear it all the time. “If you have any doubts at all, you shouldn’t go!” I’m here to confess, if I took that completely literally, not only would I never fly, I’d never leave the house. A measure of controlled fear is not unhealthy, especially when it comes to flying an airplane, and the idea that we need total freedom from fear to be safe is, in fact, problematic.
Jeff Wise is a pilot and also a psychologist who writes a blog on PsychologyToday.com. In a recent thread click here, Wise (a great name for a psychologist) confessed to experiencing fear on the morning of a flight, but related how the fear dissipates by the time he arrives at the airport. Once the preflight examination begins, the fear is gone. Sound familiar?
