Michael SchneiderFounder, Executive Director & Chief Pilot aka "Top Dog", Pilots To The Rescue · Top Dog @ Pilots To The Rescue

PTTR and The Captain's Lifestyle Podcast- Scare yourself a little bit each day

2 Jul 2021 · 1 min

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In this segment of the PTTR and The Captain's Lifestyle Podcast, Michael Schneider argues that personal growth stems from deliberately exposing yourself to manageable fear each day. He illustrates the principle with his own experiences: despite nearly 700 flight hours over a decade, he still feels the thrill and danger of flying, and he recounts riding a motorcycle, noting that approaching the activity without fear yields better performance. Schneider emphasizes that regular, controlled challenges—supported by training and mentorship—force continuous learning and expansion of one’s capabilities. The core message is that embracing small, daily risks, coupled with proper guidance, is essential for human development.

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It's important to scare yourself a little bit every day. If you're not always learning, you're not growing. If you're not, um, I tell people when I'm flying, uh, one of the reasons I love flying is because not only do I learn something with every flight, but I scare myself a little bit every time I fly. It's still scary for me to fly, by the way. I have nearly 700 hours and been flying for over 10 years. It's still scary. Things happen. And it is dangerous. Just like when I had a motorcycle and I jumped on the bike. I mean, I didn't go on and get on the bike thinking, oh, I'm going to get in a crash today. Because you're not, you're probably not going to ride that well if you're like worried. Same with flying. But it's important to scare yourself a little bit every day to keep pushing yourself because that's how you expand as a human being. And the training and the mentorship is a huge part of that. Really what we need to do sometimes are things that we don't want to. And that's how we grow, you know?