Success Is Feeling Good About The Work

Sweat The Small Stuff. Without Letting Anyone See You Sweat.

Our Training Pushes Us To Develop A New Set Of Instincts: Instead Of Reacting To Danger With A Fight-or-flight Adrenaline Rush, We're Trained To Respond Unemotionally By Immediately Prioritizing Threats And Methodically Seeking To Defuse Them. We Go From Wanting To Bolt For The Exit To Wanting To Engage And Understand What's Going Wrong, Then Fix It.

I've Been Lucky Enough To Fly To Space Twice.

Still, I Also Know That Most People, Including Me, Tend To Applaud The Wrong Things: The Showy, Dramatic Record-setting Sprint Rather Than The Years Of Dogged Preparation Or The Unwavering Grace Displayed During A String Of Losses. Applause, Then, Never Bore Much Relation To The Reality Of My Life As An Astronaut, Which Was Not All About, Or Even Mostly About, Flying Around In Space.

Every Decision You Make, From What You Eat To What You Do With Your Time Tonight, Turns You Into Who You Are Tomorrow And The Day After That.