You're going out with potentially 100 other aircraft. And it's multi domain space, cyber, ground, sea, everything working together against an enemy that is also multidomain as well. So I would say if you really had to boil it down, 10% is dog fighting and how good your hands are. The rest of it is being able to coordinate these large forces of exercises. And typically it's the fighter pilots that are planning these exercises. If you boil down my job as a fighter pilot, it's to make decisions. And I think it's more important than ever now. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Welcome to all three of you joining out there, wherever you may be. We are joined today by two special guests and myself, Brian Keating, your host, your fearful host of the into the Impossible podcast, discussing the impossibly delightful, delicious, enjoyable book by today's guest Hazard Lee, just called The Art of Clear Thinking. And I'm joined today by a very special guest live in the into the Impossible studios, making his first ever podcast appearance. And this is my good friend, Lieutenant Commander Ariel Kleinerman, graduate of many, many disciplines and places, but including and not limited to past guest on the show, David Spurgels, Princeton University. Ariel, welcome to the podcast. Thanks.

Pleasure to be on.

Thanks. And it's a very auspicious day to have a Hazard on the podcast for many reasons. One, when this comes out, not the live version, which is coming out today, it will be the release date of his first book, The Art of Clear Thinking. And hopefully there'll be many, many more books to come. It's been endorsed by many, many people that are just incredible. But I want to point out past guest astronaut and Dr. Scott Parazinski, who's an incredible human being. My mom fell in love with him when he was on the show. I'm sure she'll fall in love with Hazard as well. Hazard, welcome to the show. Major Hazard Lee.

How are you, Brian? Thanks for having me. This is great.

It's great to have us here. I love this book. This has been such a treat to read it and to really plow into it, both as a private pilot here in Southern California, a big fan of the Air Force, and my stepfather was an academy grad back in the 60s, flew tankers and phantoms in Vietnam. And there's a lot of that in this book, as well as lessons learned for individuals of all kinds. But, you know, I'm a scientist and your father being a physicist, you know all about that. And the science in this book is what really stood out to me and made it so delightful and such a quick and easy read. But the storytelling is what really stands out in this magnificent book. So the first question I have you know, we have a segment on the show. Whenever an author honors me by coming on, I always ask them to judge the book by its cover. Something you're never supposed to do, right, Ariel? You're never supposed to judge a book by its cover. What else do you have to go on if you've never written a book before? This is your first book. So we do a judging books by its cover, where we ask you to go through the title, the subtitle, and the COVID art, if any. And the most important thing I want to ask you, why did you choose the art of clear thinking, not the science of clear thinking? So take it away. Help us judge this book by its wonderful cover.