🛫 Don’t Trust Your Feelings at 30,000 Feet

How Leaders Crash When They Rely on Instinct Instead of Instruments

In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. took off in his private plane from New Jersey, headed toward Martha’s Vineyard.

He never made it.

There was no mechanical failure. No radio silence. No external sabotage.

He flew straight into the ocean because he got disoriented in the air and trusted his feelings more than his flight instruments.

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