"The problem with scud running is it often works" - this is really important because if dangerous things killed everyone who tried them, nobody would try them anymore.

But if you put yourself in a precarious position, eventually it will catch up to you, and you HAVE to force yourself to avoid those positions, no matter how tempting.

“We can wait and get there late, or leave now and it’ll take the rest of our lives to get there…”

"Wait and late or now and plow" was mine :)

I wonder if CFIs could basically be replaced by ChatGPT making pithy statements about "don't fly into weather you idiots". Probably too polite, though.