You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.
There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.
Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.