"Judging Books by Its Cover: Why did you choose the art of clear thinking, not the science of clear thinking?"

Top Gun Tribute: "We have actually two real life American heroes on the podcast today."

"The Importance of Mental Models and Training for High-Performance": "If you're relying on hand-eye coordination, yeah, people say, oh, Hazard, you must have like, this phenomenal hand-eye coordination. You could just make split-second reactions. The book, I came away with a very different perspective."

Physical Training and Cognitive Performance: "The brain uses most of the calories in the body when it's at rest. But do you have a physical training routine? And do you have any tools, tips, techniques to get sleep when it counts? That's really important."

The Future of Education: "Education is the modern day professoriate class, kind of the equivalent of medicine in the era of bloodletting and leeches." - Carl Wyman

Innovative Education Techniques: "What if you could kind of do the opposite and see the so I've often thought in the simulator, we should have, like, an M 80 go off, like when you crash the simulator. Like, I do it for fun, you know, I'm going to fly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and my F 18 and Microsoft flights, but if I really, you know, if there all of a sudden was a joy buzzer that went off on my butt, maybe I'd have more visceral reaction."

The Role of Autopilot in Piloting: "How do you teach your students to view an autopilot, these augmented systems, as not a threat to their masculinity or femininity? There's a lot of female fighter pilots, as you guys both know well, but how do you let them overcome and see it as a partner?"

Nonlinear Thinking: "Trying to optimize it to carry more passengers is actually detrimental."

"The Art of Thinking in Systems" Author's Writing Process: "Are there commonalities, are there ways, tools that you use besides begging the forbearance of your lovely wife, I assume, and your kids who you acknowledge in the book? How did you work to convey that and do it so spectacularly well in your first ever kind of your first sorty out of the box?"

When to Make a Choice and When to Pause: "Sometimes the best option is not to choose...the first thing you do when there's an emergency is...take a pause, take a...how do you know when to make a choice and sometimes not to make a choice?"