I recently had a conversation with a career pilot for a commercial airline. At least once a week, he makes a transatlantic flight to Paris, France. I asked the question I had always wondered: “So, that’s a really long flight. What, exactly, do you do in the cockpit for all those hours to make sure […]
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Getting Used To the Train
I had a friend once who bought a house in Torrance, CA with a railroad track literally outside his back fence. The train would come barreling through about 5 or 6 times each night — and for the first few months, he barely slept (but realized why the house was so cheap). But within about […]
How To Become An Overnight Success
We’ve all heard interviews with people who became an overnight success. Everybody wants to know how they did it. We assume they must be unusually gifted or skilled or smart to have made it happen. But they probably did it by becoming an overnight failure – over and over and over. We assume that we […]