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D,ruthyscrllp,h bubble in the deck p']rlltes lln an eeIie sulp,hur light.. There goes. Then twO' angryatterburner eyes seem to' hang motionless in the darkness. At last we feel the concussion through our feet, '[he two-wire, that great fat eable, is turned into a singing Uquid instrument by the shock, Ravi Shankar meets the Terminator.

Now the yeUow:shids wave him toward the huffar eart where the grapes wiUrefuel hhn, So that he can go H]p' and do it again. There he was, safe on the deck ofa big bomilt.. The first lesson is Ioremain calm, not to panic, Because emotions are emUedl '''boilt eOignifiOins, ", ilthis is knownas "being co Oil. Jazz was "cool" compared wiilth the hot, emotiona] bebop iilt hadl begun to overshadow, Some researchers suggesilt iltn.

J'I ill. I ,au uroug. Only ][0 to. Gelling back hl. Every few minutes lithe eattrupulllt shook lithe who. Yanlknvich had just begun lithe bdefing for these, his students, when Del Rio. I'dgone ffi:n stay on the Car! Vinson as part ofmy lifelong faseinetion with that boimdary region b etween life and death, that place where, to stayalive, you have to remain ealrn andalert..

Thereascn it'sa boundaryregion is that not everyone can dO' it. Some frui1. SO' me ,dlle. Shortly beforeI arrived, nne of the p,ilnts was onfinal, heading toward the deck.. He let his descent rate get. His hand was already on the tbrntt1e.. The LSO had bit the pickle swikh, activ. The b,rull, an obvious light inru big Fresnel lens, was night in front of him, telling him he was lnw And, of course, the LSD was also.

Somehow none of it got through.. Trn reasonably eeniatin that he got to have Iuneb 1rith the captain, But the most mystifying thing was how be em. That was thereal boundary ill was. Someth:ilng powerful had blocked it. U reminded me ofa lot of aoddents in the v! Yankovich explained it tome: "The launch bar breatks.. The water brake turns instantly to' steam from all thrllt energy and explcdes.. That's whar's known in fighter pilot parlanceas "Not your day, ::' But there arealso the thin.

If you taxi to' the eat and you don't have at knot in your stomach, there:'s somethdng w1. Y:ou:'re sitting there suckingoxygen, you'd better have a p,larn. Because if yuu don't, you're serewed, and then you're fneked. And those were for the lud y guys, The first rule is: facereatliiy..

Good SlJ.! TviVOIS aren't immune to' fear. They know wh. It's all at question of wh. The briefing was notatlD out impmting technical knowledge, If those guys didn't know thrnt stuff already, they wouldnl be sitting here '!!

Part of the brllefing was to' remind them of stuff they knew. No, the briefing was more about how Yankomch said things, and how he seid them was 'with a dark, dark humor.. S'W'V'iV',01' p,'e1'sona1ity, writes that survivors "1augh at thremts.

In k,eep,ing "vith that view, the p,ilots on the Ca1'lVinson. Because if you let Yourself get too serious vou win get too scared and once. Fear is good.. Too much fear is not.. Yankovieb ,continued his bdefing: "The steam curtain comes up, and you ] the y.

Yon'll bern heroreal ,quick if you have the fold h. The safety guys jump' up' andmake sure the beer cans are down. If you lose an engine on ilthe cat, stroke ilthe blnwers, twelve-to- fourteen-not-to-exceed-sixteen. The first time ill hearda briefing like ilthailt, 1 was Iost, But that's part of the point: only those who. Then, rufter all the teelmical bits of the launch process have been eheeked the wipeout wi. And since noilthJlng ever works outas planned, ebeck iltbe radar.

Of eourse, iilt would be uniltbinkruble to tafk like ilthailt because, for nne thing, anybo dy ,could understand you. For another, iilt would be lItenifying.. That's how focused you are.. Okay, call the batU. Nnw ifs a knife fight in at phone boniltb.. Lessons about 8u. Abouilt the surface of the brainand its deeprecesses Call ilt anrup,e, call iltru horse, as Plato did, P'lruto understo 0 d that emotions could trumpreascn and that to suoceed we have to use the reins of reason on the horse of emotion.

Iike the jo ekey without the horse, My fruther didn't flyafter the war, and he hardly ever talked about iltas such, but when he did, 1 listened. He used to say, ''''VVhen you walk across the ramp' to your airplane, you Iose half yourillQ.. SometimesI'd just silt there in the left seat, hyp,enventnruting,. You are ina pmnfound! He was trying to ksep them calm wh. He lelling them faeereality.. War ill: At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being,a thousand years..

By the. One cannot explain i1it. Tn us to lithe ground and 8. U involves. All of lith alit hap'p,ens outside of eonscious control, Reason is.

The oldestmedical and philosophicelmodel, going back to lithe Greeks, was ofa unified organism in whleh mind was pm1 ofand inlegr. Plato, on lithe ollther hand, thoughtnfmlnd and hndyas separate, 'Vrith the soul gning onafter deatth.. To the neuroscientist, the brain is no Ionger seenas separate but is nnw considered an integr. Morenver, many researchers nnw regard what we experience as mind and conseiousness asa side effect albeita useful nne lin evolutionary terms of the brain's synaptic funetioning, Certamly theyatll.

In fad, the brain is. Antonio R. Damasio points out in his best-selling bonk. The Ierrn "government" refers. Ureceives images from recejp'lItors in lithe bo dy and from lithe sense organs lIthrullt trllk. The images ean be smells, sights, sounds, or feelings.. AIIt lithe same time, lithe brain providesa stream of outputs lith alit shape lithe dy's reactions litO' lithe environment and lito itself, from. SO' lithe brain reads lithe state of lithe body andmakes fine adjustmems, even while illt reads lithe environment and directs lithe body in reacting lito it.

AJl] of this is aimed att thing ]. Axons the fibers that send signals growand form new branches and synapses, :Memory is the result. Uoingatlmost anything generates new Iinks among netrrons, The process of Iearning something and the essence of memory has been observed by neuroeeientists in the ]at]b: Cenesunake new proteins in order to store information, and! Emotion is capable of producing powerful physieal actions..

The jockey is reason and the horse is. But when they run, they are one, and ifs positively godly. Beverly wrutcbedrus Eberle lifted tbero ek off of hnnself, Of course, no. When 1 was repomfing onairline aoddents in tbe s, an investigrlltor toldme of finding demd p,ilots who. So ilt is Iearning when to soothe andgenfle ilt and when to let ilt run thatmmrks the winningjcekey, the true survivor..

Thererure primary emotions and secondary emotions.. But the emotional system of bo dilly responses ean be hooked up, to anything.. Rernarque's soldiers lemrned to conneeta dleep,ly instinctive emotional response to the whistling ofa shell. There were no high-explosive shells when emotion evolved, but lit is handilyreerudted into the W:rllsk 'Of. The connection, oneemade, is so.

The pro of th. Remarque's observation, and the neuroseienee that has confirmed it, can iUuminate the w. II Ie Vfaller, riding on the buoyancy of his life vest,. Raising his arms causes his feet to' sink, Forty-tom-year-old P'eterDuffy died on Juneni, , while r. His life jacket was s. Font entrrnpiment rescues are very diffieult. You might as weU step' in front ofa sp,eeding earas get your font eaught ina fast movfng liver.. The victim was warned, but faUed to' follow instructions..

I "rnve 'unne.. The instinct to' reproduce is another; and it initiates a remarkably similar set of visceral responses, though 'Vrith striking differences, involvmg the sex organs and glands.. The knot in the stomachYankovichmenfioned resnlts from that redistribution as WB]] as from confraetions of the smoothmuscle in the stomach , in whkh the flow of blo od to the digestive system is reduced so that it ean be used elsewhere to meet the emergency, lEx,ce]]ent deseriptione of this very complex system ean be found in Joseph LeDoux:'s books, The Emotionoi B1'U,in.

He refers to the amygdat]atas. U has not yet had time to come up, with anatp'p'ropmiatte su:n. Peter Duffy's lack of control over hlsemotional response allowed him to drown himself in the Hudson lRlver.. The fighter pUot who. Lknow how it works.. I've done it myself. Most pilots have.. Fear in the 'co ckp,it,as Yankovich put it, 1S a knifefight in a phone bo oth..

You lllllter. You are sp,Ut. Many times lb efore, the p,ilotmust have had the sensation of mm-buckle hvisting terrer, followed lb,y the cool flood of relief upon 1anding.. They help, lito dampen HA]P,lidt eonscious memory Hven while creating and reealling imp,lll,dt uneonseiousjmemories with greallter efficiency..

Jx refers lito this as a "hostile lttak. The p,ilot had develop'eda powerful secondary emotion, which lItold him that safety and evenecstasy ,could be found on the ground or the deck and that if he em. He had a true and p,hyskalmemory of that sensation, whkh wasa powerful motivator of behavior developed by eoull: ]ing that experience witha primary emotional strute..

He also had an intellectual knowledge thrut if you Iand when you'realready lowand slow, youmigbt die. Unfortunately, he had no seeondary emntinn for tbrut, since he had no experieneeof it,. Tf's eaUed "fspotfing the deck," because it breaks up, the natural flnw of his scan, whieh ought to' melude his meatball, line-up" airspeed, altimeter, and angle ofatlack..

Onee he fixes on his ]anding area, he's done:foL The p,ilofs nising etnve of fear went off the ehants in one directinn, while the nising curve of hisrnofivation tnward the deck went off the eharts in the other, The jockey Iost t, 'II of t' hi , L"" " ,II ,t'hl, ,t' eon m 0 ,II lie norse In I 11,13 ga IH. Experienced travelers in the 'Vrildlerness and p,enp,]e who engruge in riskyactivities understand. I'illtb emtatinllty tomeke for success, self-eontrol, ".

How wen you exercise lith alit ,conb'o. SlES cortisol mto lithe blood. The amygdala bas p'Owerful connections to lithe sensory eortiees, lithe rbinal cortex, lithe anterior eingulate, and lithe venb:atl prefrontal cortex, whic:bmeans lIthatllt lithe entirememory system, bollth inpiul and output, areatffec1lted.. Asa result.

Under extreme stress, lithe visual field. Stress causesmost people lito focus narrowly on lithe lIth. The organism was doing wh.

Emotions are sunrnvat1mecn,an1lsill. S, but they don't always work for the ind1lv]duatl. They work acrcssa 1arge number of trials lito. IU of unfamfliar hazards..

To survive in it, the body must learn and adapt. Emotion is the souree of both success and fat1l]ure att selecting correct action at the erudru1moment. To survive, you must develo.

Ilture, from bang gHdersand steep ereek b caters lito. Fire Department, trying lito. As we smashed 'Vvilndo. We had an nld-fimerrllt the firehnuseill was wnrking nut of, Bernie was his name, who. Jt on his Kevlar turnout coat. Bernie wasn't the only nne, either.. The guys ealled the big beer cooler in the kitchen. They had dozens of names for diifferent 1 1 es of eo. Butch Farabee, nationa] emergency services ecordinetor for the Nationa] Park Service, tnld of truk.

He wasas sfiffase b,rusted turkey, too; we had to. SnrrYrllbout dropping you. The fad Is you have to. If you don't wo. A demJl body is not something YDU get used to. JtSrll person in touch with his environment, while laughtermruk. Mo odsarre eontaginus, and the emo.

That stimulrlltionrllUevirlltes anxietyand frustration. There is evidence that laughter can send ehemicrlll signals to. It is nota lack of fear lIthatllt separates elillte performers from the rest of us.. Theymanage fear.. They use illt lito focus on W;atking 'correct action. U can heatllt your house, Dr illt can burn.

Itmakesme feel secure and confident, illt suddenlymatkes everyth. Here'smy buddy lItodaty. Control can easily slip,.

I've spent lithe better part ofmy ]ife wnrking around p'eop,le whndsk dying at horrible deatllth of lItheir ownmaking.. They see it. They're near it. They aU have friends whO' have gone lIthatllt w. You can't fight lIthem, because lItheyare who. Hatfing,at wa1illter in a whillte eoat carne to lithe table, and every officer simng around me said! Surviva], then, isatboullt being eo 01 It'sebout Ianghing willtb anatffilltude of bold! Iler or no II!.

Even I can tell, Thrnugbmy headphones 1 hear Yankovich say, "Lo. JII '" ll.. Ue Jell!. Then Yankovilcb says to' me, "Boy, d1ldl you see him settle? He'll be p,]1ddng the seat cushion nut of hisasshcleeb out nnw.. ENTY snowmobilers had just completeda seareb and rescue rmssion to bring out three others, who? On the way back, an. The idea is to aC! But siffing lIthere in lithe ehiUrllir wifh lithe view and! The big wide clearing ]ed!

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