Speaker 2
I fully agree. And we've seen this same development in wind as well as solar as well. And thank you for highlighting some of those statistics. Exactly. Now, Bertrand, you are a psychiatrist and an explorer. Some people say that that's crazy, but you're a psychiatrist. So crazy, I think, has a different meaning to it. You have a unique perspective on the human aspect of these groundbreaking flights. How do you approach the mental challenges of these missions for both yourself and now you will have a co-pilot as well?
Speaker 1
Well, just for these missions, I use a lot of hypnosis techniques. With hypnosis, you can visualize in advance the potential problems and the very quiet and safe way to solve the problem in order to avoid panicking. This is very important. You know, if suddenly you have an emergency and you panic, you're dead. But if you have anticipated in advance how quiet you will be to solve the problem, you will solve it very well. So that's one way to get prepared. The other one is to manage your sleep patterns. With Solar Impulse, I was sleeping 20 minutes and then I had to wake up to control the plane and then sleep 20 minutes again. Hypnosis was really important for that. And then I would say as a more general understanding of the situation, we have to understand that human beings resist to get out of their comfort zone. They want to keep their habits, their routine, the status quo, you know, the habits. And this makes human beings not performant and not creative at all, because you just reproduce what you have learned to do. So there is no innovation and disruption. But if you go into the unknown, if you have ruptures, you know, and a crisis, an adventure, at this moment, you are obliged to go into the question marks and the doubts, and this will stimulate your creativity, will stimulate your performance, because you will need to do things well. If you don't do it well, you fail, you fall, you die, or whatever. So you need to be absolutely aware of everything, and you are obliged to do well. And this is what I noticed each time I was in an adventure. In the beginning, it was for me a big question mark. How was it possible that I felt so good in a balloon in the middle of the Atlantic or the Pacific, thousands of kilometers from any potential rescue? I felt better than in any other moment of my life, you know? And I thought, I'm crazy or what? And finally, I understood that when you are out of all your references, all your benchmarks, you're obliged to go and get the resources inside of you. And you just go inside of you and you get all the confidence, the performance, the concentration, the good reaction, the awareness. You become conscious that you are alive in your body at that special moment in this special place. And it gives you so much more performance. It's unbelievable. And this is why I love adventure. You know, I always say that adventure is a crisis that you accept and crisis is an adventure that you refuse. And I believe that we have to understand that in every moment of our life. When we have a crisis, we can say, okay, I accept it because I will learn new tools, new skills. I will be better after the crisis than before, and then it becomes an adventure.