“ Fearless Leadership: High-Performance Lessons from the Flight Deck ” and “ Span of Control: What to do When You Are Under Pressure, Overwhelmed and… - Carey Lohrenz

People think that fighter pilots aren’t afraid of anything, and yet that’s not true,” she says. “It’s that we’ve learned and developed the ability to work through fear, and flip it, and make it actionable, so that it works for us, and not against us.”

“Midwestern stoicism … that ability to just do the work with no fanfare” may be uniquely Wisconsin

Anything great that you’re going to want to accomplish is going to involve fear and discomfort, and making other people uncomfortable,” she says. “But you have to go for it anyway. That’s how you make a difference.”