--- product_id: 467495704 title: "The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions" price: "133.87 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/467495704-the-art-of-clear-thinking-a-stealth-fighter-pilots-timeless store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions **Price:** 133.87 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions - **How much does it cost?** 133.87 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/467495704-the-art-of-clear-thinking-a-stealth-fighter-pilots-timeless) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description THE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tested techniques in everyday life. The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with fewer than one in a thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic consequences. This extreme environment has forged a group of warriors who for the last fifty years have been considered at the apex of decision-making theory and practice. In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. With gripping firsthand accounts from his time as a fighter pilot and fascinating turning points throughout history, Hasard reveals powerful decision-making principles that can be used in business and in life, including: • HOW TO LEARN BETTER AND FASTER • CULTIVATING MENTAL TOUGHNESS • DEVELOPING THE SKILLS TO QUICKLY ASSESS, CHOOSE, AND EXECUTE • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE Hasard has used and taught these techniques across the full spectrum of human endeavors and proven their effectiveness in both the cockpit and the boardroom. Those who have already benefited include CEO’s, astronauts, CIA agents, students, parents, and many others. The Art of Clear Thinking is a book that will change how you interact with the world around you. Review: Best book on problem analysis out there with great storytelling to match - Hasard has written an amazing book with clear and easy to follow methods to improve the way you solve problems with great historical storytelling and insights from his own career and famous historical events. Starting with Page 1 we see how experienced airline pilots crashed a perfectly good aircraft killing all onboard due to a combination of poor decision making ( The infamous Air France 447 flight) From there Hasard shows us how this and other situations could have been better assessed and delivers a great chapter on power laws- why things increase exponentially and why our minds are programmed to think in linear terms. For example how increasing your speed from 40 to 65 MPH will save about 6 minutes every 10 miles but increasing your speed from 65 to 90 will only save half the time even though the MPH increase is the same.. He explains the why of this in the chapter and introduces us to non-linear thinking concepts and why thinking in non linear terms is so important to assessing and making decisions ( Power laws) He then goes on to give us simple fast forecasting tools to help improve our decision making. He uses a flying story here from his time in Afghanistan that was amazing to read. Throughout the decision making process of analysis, choosing and execution ( ACE as the pilot world calls it) He gives insightful examples from his own career and draws on some great historical stories from D-Day to how Google almost never came to be. In fact not since the 48 laws of Power or the 33 Strategies of War ( Robert Green) have I seen such concise and gripping story telling. Some of his flying stories increased my heart rate – which is pretty hard to do since I was an F16 pilot myself- Yet the way he retells his combat experience with lessons learned and how he arrived at his decisions was really thoughtful. Hasard drew on some of his own failures and shows us how he could have made better decisions in the cockpit and also why he made the decisions he did at that time ( most of them of course worked out but the point of his story was to show us how he did his risk analysis with lives on the line) From there we get a great chapter on creative thinking- And this uses some great story telling from the Gulf war on how they completely disregarded current military doctrine to come up with a new way to plan the invasion of Iraq. It was page turning storytelling, in fact I was so gripped that ( like most learning) it was not until the next morning that I realized I really gained some deep knowledge on creative thinking . Hasard points out that “creativity is one of the few resources that can provide an exponential advantage to those who are able to harness it. “ And introduces us to effects based approach that works on the battle field and in life. We then jump to some mental toughness skills – Many of these are about calming down the mind and positive self talk as well as visualization.. While you may think I have heard this before the author brings this alive with real examples from pilot training- Hasard brings this to life and shows the statistical benefits of doing all the above and more importantly the why behind it. Hasard also has more lessons on mental toughness and shows us how more experienced pilots then him did not make it through pilot training because they were not able to harness these and other skills he teaches. I have just hit the highlights of the book and it was so exciting that I found myself finishing it in 2 days. This is the best book on decision making I have ever read and I highly recommend this for everyone to help improve their ability to analyze and make decisions in daily life Review: Great read, lots of bookmarks to return to! - This was a great read! Hasard is a brilliant storyteller from his time in the Air Force and he does a great job relating the skills he learned re. clear thinking (mental toughness, resilience, triage and preparation) to the modern world. It’s a quick and effective read, highly recommend! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #70,650 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #166 in Business Decision Making #170 in Decision-Making & Problem Solving #508 in Military Leader Biographies | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 864 Reviews | ## Images ![The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71aeW3V1msL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best book on problem analysis out there with great storytelling to match *by S***N on May 26, 2023* Hasard has written an amazing book with clear and easy to follow methods to improve the way you solve problems with great historical storytelling and insights from his own career and famous historical events. Starting with Page 1 we see how experienced airline pilots crashed a perfectly good aircraft killing all onboard due to a combination of poor decision making ( The infamous Air France 447 flight) From there Hasard shows us how this and other situations could have been better assessed and delivers a great chapter on power laws- why things increase exponentially and why our minds are programmed to think in linear terms. For example how increasing your speed from 40 to 65 MPH will save about 6 minutes every 10 miles but increasing your speed from 65 to 90 will only save half the time even though the MPH increase is the same.. He explains the why of this in the chapter and introduces us to non-linear thinking concepts and why thinking in non linear terms is so important to assessing and making decisions ( Power laws) He then goes on to give us simple fast forecasting tools to help improve our decision making. He uses a flying story here from his time in Afghanistan that was amazing to read. Throughout the decision making process of analysis, choosing and execution ( ACE as the pilot world calls it) He gives insightful examples from his own career and draws on some great historical stories from D-Day to how Google almost never came to be. In fact not since the 48 laws of Power or the 33 Strategies of War ( Robert Green) have I seen such concise and gripping story telling. Some of his flying stories increased my heart rate – which is pretty hard to do since I was an F16 pilot myself- Yet the way he retells his combat experience with lessons learned and how he arrived at his decisions was really thoughtful. Hasard drew on some of his own failures and shows us how he could have made better decisions in the cockpit and also why he made the decisions he did at that time ( most of them of course worked out but the point of his story was to show us how he did his risk analysis with lives on the line) From there we get a great chapter on creative thinking- And this uses some great story telling from the Gulf war on how they completely disregarded current military doctrine to come up with a new way to plan the invasion of Iraq. It was page turning storytelling, in fact I was so gripped that ( like most learning) it was not until the next morning that I realized I really gained some deep knowledge on creative thinking . Hasard points out that “creativity is one of the few resources that can provide an exponential advantage to those who are able to harness it. “ And introduces us to effects based approach that works on the battle field and in life. We then jump to some mental toughness skills – Many of these are about calming down the mind and positive self talk as well as visualization.. While you may think I have heard this before the author brings this alive with real examples from pilot training- Hasard brings this to life and shows the statistical benefits of doing all the above and more importantly the why behind it. Hasard also has more lessons on mental toughness and shows us how more experienced pilots then him did not make it through pilot training because they were not able to harness these and other skills he teaches. I have just hit the highlights of the book and it was so exciting that I found myself finishing it in 2 days. This is the best book on decision making I have ever read and I highly recommend this for everyone to help improve their ability to analyze and make decisions in daily life ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great read, lots of bookmarks to return to! *by A***N on May 19, 2026* This was a great read! Hasard is a brilliant storyteller from his time in the Air Force and he does a great job relating the skills he learned re. clear thinking (mental toughness, resilience, triage and preparation) to the modern world. It’s a quick and effective read, highly recommend! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good Book *by M***E on June 4, 2023* Lee has written a book that is NOT a how to book. Though the use of history and his own memory, he illustrated for us, how to think clearly and critically. Some areas of the book do have a how to feel to it, others don't. 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