Episode 22 - From Aviation Safety To Life’s Course Corrections

A whiteout morning in Toronto becomes an unexpected teacher. We take that slow, snow-drift mood and connect it to the ultra-reliable world of aviation, asking what airlines and investigators know about risk, feedback, and course correction that the rest of us can borrow. The result is a clear framework for navigating drift in your career, relationships, and habits without waiting for a crisis.

We unpack why aviation is so safe—redundancy, rigorous investigation, and humble learning loops—and translate those patterns into daily life. You’ll hear how the “double back” method, drawn from Maimonides and rooted in ancient wisdom, can rebalance an extreme by briefly overshooting in the other direction. We explore how miracles become “normal” through repetition, why that dulls our sense of gratitude and caution, and how to revive attention so small signals register before they turn into emergencies.

From practical check-ins that mirror a pilot’s position fixes to real-world stories about reading resistance—stonewalled calls, seized parts, wrong first assumptions—we show how to treat tribulations as timely prompts rather than roadblocks. If a path is littered with friction, perhaps the fastest way forward is to return to the first clear step and verify the question you’re asking. With simple tools like daily reviews, clear destinations, and honest metrics, you can build your own cockpit for life and adjust with calm, even when the weather turns.

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Transcript

Aviation As A Model For Life

From Miracle To Normal: Awe And Safety

Course Corrections And Double Back Method

Tribulations As Check‑Ins

Reading The Signals And Finishing Strong

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Hello and welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us on this episode of the Trust Factor, this snowy, blizzard-filled day in Toronto. A reminder that we are in the great white north. You know, we've had pretty lame winters for the last 20 years. When I was a kid growing up, 40 years ago, we had real snowfalls. And today kind of reminds me of that. We're trucking through feet of snow and everything is difficult and arduous and it's hard to see and it's hard to get anywhere. But the smart money slows down and enjoys it. Don't go anywhere in a rush. Don't go anywhere if you don't have to. If you do, slow it down, give yourself plenty of time. There's no rush, and nothing is important enough as to risk your own safety to get out there and do something. So enjoy it, my friends. It's here. It's the beautiful white fluff that comes down from the sky. If you're a skier, go out and ski. If you enjoy winter, it's a wonderland for you today. Yesterday, I was talking to you about some of the lessons that I learned twenty-five years ago when I did my pilot's license, and this is what popped into my head. One of the things that I thought about yesterday was there are a lot of life lessons to be learned, but specifically from industries that are life and death. In other words, they are so relevant, they are so important, these industries, that so much time and money and wisdom has gone into not just creating them, but operating them and maintaining them. Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about. Aviation. I gave you an example that I learned life lessons from when I was 25 years old and I got my pilot's license. Those lessons were put in place over generations. Why are they so important or why do we learn from there how to operate in life sometimes? Because, God forbid, an airline carrier holding hundreds and hundreds of passengers, if it falls out of the sky, the devastation is enormous. The tragedy is something that most people couldn't bear. And so there's been so much time and money and energy and resources and wisdom that's been put into making sure that these events don't occur. We have the National Transportation Safety Board in the US, we have NAV Canada in Canada. These organizations are designed primarily to investigate occurrences that happen. Accidents, when a plane falls out of the sky, when there's a problem that God forbid lives are lost, these organizations step up and it's their job to overanalyze and to bring the greatest minds to the industry so that they can determine what the cause of the accident or the incident was, and more importantly, so that they can put mechanisms in place to stop it from happening again. And that's why aviation has become one of the safest, if not the safest, mode of transportation in the world, which defies logic because if you think about it, an airplane is hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel and aluminum and all kinds of different materials, this big honking chunk of metal that weighs hundreds of thousands, the size of a building, loaded with human beings, loaded with their belongings, their luggage, their cargo, and then you put this thing in the air and it soars through the sky like a bird. Are you kidding me? It's shockingly crazy. If you really step back and think about it, you would be blown away. If you were one of the first people to watch an airliner take off and get off the ground, you would look at the sky and think, what a miracle, what an outright miracle. There's no reason for this hunk of steel weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds to be able to make it up into the air and fly across the country. There's no reason, there's no logical way to explain this to see a plane weighing that much flying through the air and crossing the ocean, you would certainly look at it and think that was a miracle. What's the difference between a miracle and nature? A miracle is something that we are not used to seeing. It's an event that blows us away because it's the first time we've ever seen it and we didn't think it was possible. It becomes natural when we've seen it enough times. The first time you see an airplane take off and soar through the sky, you think it's a miracle. By the time a few flights have taken off, a month or two or a year has passed, it's become nature. You're no longer enamored by it. Today nobody looks up to the sky and thinks that's impossible. How's that happening? It's a given. We understand it, it's part of nature. But in reality, it should always be seen as miraculous. So we learn so many lessons from industries such as aviation or banking or healthcare. Industries where if something goes wrong, the fallout is tremendous. The fallout is just too much to bear. So we throw so much time and money and resources behind fixing those problems. Now, if we took those problems and we introduced them to the average person at their formative years in life, when they're growing up in elementary and high school, figuring out how to solve your problems, but you figure it out from these industries and you learn life lessons from these industries, we would be so much better off. But they don't teach it to us. A classic example was the one that I gave you yesterday. When you get off course, when you're off track in an airplane, it's dangerous because in a car, you could pull over to the side of the road and ask and find a map or rely on somebody else to guide you. Here, when you're in a plane, there's no option to pull over. If you get lost, you very may well find yourself in a place with no runway, which means no landing option, which means everybody on that plane is at risk now. And so they couldn't allow that to happen. And as a result of that, they gave you multiple methods to figure out where you are and where you should be going and how to get back on track. I gave you an example that applied that to life. That wasn't my idea. I connected it back to 850 years ago for you. Rumbam, Maimonides, and where do you think he got it from? He got it from the Torah that was given to us 3,500 years ago. This is nothing new. What aviation started to figure out was already given to us 3,500 years ago. They just extrapolated it and applied it to their industry. Maimonides rumbum gave it to us 850 years ago. The double back method. Figure out where you're lacking, figure out where you've gone wrong, where your character or your morals have gone to the wrong extreme, and then correct them not by going back to what's correct, but by going back double. In other words, overshooting for a period of time and then eventually finding the right path. That's an amazing life lesson. And there are so many more to be figured out, and they all come from where? From the Torah. It doesn't come from the NTSB. The NTSB figured it out because that idea, that principle of doubling back and overshooting in order to correct comes from a divine ancient wisdom. Let's continue, my friends. We continue on by saying that the Creator loves everybody. So why is there this thing called tribulations? And why was it connected? Why was I able to connect it for you back to aviation? And the answer is because tribulations, difficulties, challenges that God wants you to check in, He taps you on the shoulder and he says, check in, now is the time. And in aviation, that might be based on a certain time frame. So half an hour is past, an hour is past, check in on where you are. In real life, you have to determine for yourself how often do you check in. And the more concerned you are with making sure that you're getting to the right location, the right destination in life, the more frequently you check in. If it's not important for you, check in once a year. If it's critical for you, check in every day. How am I doing? Am I stepping up? Am I doing the things that I need to do to get me to the destination I want to get to? The more critical that is in your life, the more frequently you check in. So what are those tribulations? Those tribulations are God tapping you, saying, hey, it's time. Wake up, do some introspection, figure out how you are doing? Are you on cruise control? Are you on autopilot? Going the wrong way? Have you veered off track? Did you ever even get on the right track? And if you were on the right track, did you verify that or did you just allow it to sit on cruise control while you were getting pushed off by the wind? Do you understand? That's what the taps are. That's what tribulations are. It's God tapping you on the shoulder saying, hey, remember, analyze, assess, figure out. And if you get the message, then you've won. If you understand it, it's a love tap, that it is not somebody trying to get in your way, somebody trying to hurt you, or whatever it is that we said yesterday with regards to the individual who thinks he runs the world. For him, it's an annoyance, it's a nuisance. Just get this roadblock out of my way. For somebody who has eyes to see and knows that God's running the world and loves him, that is a loving message from a divine creator and a father who's stopping you to say, stop and assess why you are doing the thing that you're doing. And let me tell you something even more that I've experienced in my life more and more every day and every month and every year, it gets more and more, and it's entirely dependent on me. Not on him, but on me. What happens is when you start to take a step in the wrong direction, and I mean the first step, not that you've been trying for days or weeks, hours, months, whatever it is. The moment you take a first step in a direction that is wrong, he stops you. He stops you with a message that should be clear for you to understand. But if you get the message, things work out. If you don't get the message, then you will end up suffering. You will go in that direction because he can't come down and stop you physically, but he can send you signals, he can send you indications. You start to turn left and you realize you're hit with major traffic. So turn right. You don't understand this. You don't think it's that easy, but I'm telling you, it's that easy. I see it in my life every single day. I go to fix a piece of equipment, I try to attempt to butt to fix one part, and it doesn't go anywhere. It is seized, solid, stuck. There's no way I'm even going to begin to remove that part. The quote the message is wrong part, wrong focus. Look somewhere else. And the same thing, it just happened yesterday. I was looking for a part and I was calling everywhere, and I was getting stonewalled every turn. No, we don't have it. Yes, we can get it. It's going to take a month to get here. I don't have a month. I needed it yesterday. Roadblock after roadblock, shutdown after shutdown, until I decided to say, wait, what was the first place that I checked? I have to go back to the first place because God doesn't want to make it difficult for me. He knows that there's limited time in this world, and if you're going to waste it, spinning your wheels, trying to find something in the wrong place, that that means it's going to take away time and ability for you to do his work. So he wants to give you the shortcut. What was the shortcut? The first place I called. So I reassessed and I called back the first place and I repositioned the question to make sure that the salesman who answered the phone really understood what I was looking for. And guess what? He got it wrong the first time. It was sitting there in his shelf the whole time. But instead, I just kept calling around because I didn't do an adequate job the first time around with the first supplier. I know that even that phone call to find one item that I need, and how many times has it happened in a day? Just to find a part so mundane, yet God recognizes that He can make me spin my wheels or He can give it to me on the first shot. He always wants to give it to me on the first shot if it's good. If it will free up my time to do the things that are important, to do his work, he will give it to me on the first time. But I have to have the eyes. That's why I say it's up to me. I have to have the eyes and the foresight to understand and to recognize and to see his hand. And when you do, life opens up for you. The road becomes clear and easy. When you fight it, good luck, my friends. You're in for a heck of a fight. Have an amazing day and enjoy the weather. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you've heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts, drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust and keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the Trust Factor Podcast. Thanks for listening to the city.