I once had a panic attack on a super bumpy flight across the Atlantic and am forever grateful to the flight attendant who appeared by my side, calmly handed me a paper bag and said kindly but loudly: “Breathe.” My working assumption was always that I would land safely, but I needed help to get through the turbulence and, in fact, I needed a new skill. Artemis Aerospace now lists deep breathing as a way to overcome fear of flying.
Luckily, my flight to Geneva last week to attend the World Economic Forum’s springtime The Growth Summit was smooth, but I found that the main preoccupation at the gathering on the ground was turbulence itself. According to National Geographic, turbulence is caused by “chaotic and capricious eddies of air, disturbed from a calmer state by various forces.”
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