In the financial world, we are constantly bombarded with the fear that markets are crashing, plummeting, or any other fearful word that you can come up with. Fear, all these are predicated on fear and to help keep us safe from the 21st century's version of the saber-toothed tiger. We are one nuclear missile strike away from the end of civilization as we know it. If you listen to, watch, or pay attention to the News on TV, Radio, or Facebook at times you likely get a sense the world is almost over. It's about words and how they play on our decision making, the way they take over our bodies quite similarly without us even noticing. However, this isn't about presenting or taking the big shot in front of a large crowd with the game on the line. A new version of you shows up to give that presentation you've practiced 100 times, the version of you that seems like she hasn't practiced at all is suddenly on stage representing us. How we can be extremely incredible at something, yet when in front of a large group of peers we can crash and burn in an instant.

The surgeon's plane came apart moments after takeoff from Slaton Municipal Airport.I am fascinated with the human mind, how we make decisions and what words we use when put on the spot. 17 when the twin-engine plane he was piloting crashed into a field north of Slaton.

was the second that resulted in deaths in the Lubbock area in a little more than a month. Abernathy is about 17 miles north of Lubbock. John Clabes, an FAA spokesman, said the pilot did not file a flight plan but that the plane probably took off from Abernathy Municipal Airport, six miles east of the city. Gonzalez said FAA investigators will determine a cause of the crash. The fixed-wing prop plane was registered to Vaughn. The victims' dog also died in the crash of the Beech 35 about seven miles east of Abernathy. Hale County Justice of the Peace Karen Davis pronounced the victims dead at 10:05 p.m.

Timothy Vaughn, 41, and his 8-year-old daughter died in the crash Thursday evening, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman John Gonzalez. Investigators with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive at the crash scene in rural Hale County on Friday.

PlanetCrash by Matthew Boudreau