An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything

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This is a completely fascinating life story told in such an engaging way that it becomes a gift for one’s own life! By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

Yes it is best to be a team player, yes strive to be a zero, yes sweat the little stuff before it becomes big stuff. And in his particular distillation of 'success, ' he is wonderfully counterintuitive in his interpretation of common sense. I think perhaps the book and the Colonel himself would have been better served if he had an editor sit down with him and encourage him to tease out more meat to the story. A lot of the journey seems like luck, although it is clear that he put himself in the right circumstances for the opportunities to arise.I alternated between reading the book, and listening to the audiobook which was self-narrated by Hadfield himself. At certain angles, it’s possible to see clear from one end to the other, but poking out along the length of it, like branches on a massive tree, are three Russian modules and three American ones, along with a European and a Japanese module. But his vivid and refreshing insights in this book will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth – especially your own.

This advise made more practical sense than any quote I have seen attributed to the Dalai Lama or some such. Most of us won't ever get to go to space, but we can learn about it and get inspired to live on Earth by doing so. And it’s easy to do once you understand that you have a vested interest in your co-workers’ success.

From the first where you see the three astronauts crammed into the rocket, you understand where each of them is sitting, why you can hear Russian and why it is a Soyuz space ship. What it is, is the extremely detailed memoir of a very genial man who loves to educate people as much as he likes to do things himself. While this did not feel like my finest hour in space exploration, it was definitely preferable to soiling my diaper the next day. Instead of visualizing victory, astronauts prepare for the worst; always sweat the small stuff; and do care what others think.

Management has to create a climate where owning up to mistakes is permissible and colleagues have to agree, collectively, to cut each other some slack. Being an astronaut is not mainly about going into space; it is about the process of training, learning, practicing, undergoing grueling difficulties, and helping others. Deeply moving in its ability to engage, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth is written by NASA Astronaut and YouTube star Colonel Chris Hadfield with the complete and unabridged audiobook narrated by the author. This book is more about the preparation for his mission to the ISS than a standard autobiography with many chapters about his life and upbringing, which I'm grateful for. It was narrated brilliantly by the author, full of warmth, full of humour, full of wanting to share with us all.S. Navy test pilot of the year in 1991, Colonel Hadfield was CAPCOM for twenty-five Shuttle missions and NASA’s Director of Operations in Russia. Afterward, a doctor took swabs of all parts of my body - behind my ears, my tongue, my crotch - to see if I had any infections, then rubbed me down with alcohol just in case I did.

This education is not in the form of "do this like I did and you will be a more successful person," but more "this is how I became an astronaut and this is how astronauts approach their work. The environment is also highly competitive, without the competition ever being explicitly acknowledged.Since first reading it in 2014 I have bought multiple copies for others, and have found that I often quote the concept of being a +1 that Chris Hadfield discussed in this book. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. Even so, intertwined with an insider perspective of Nasa and Roscosmos, this cringe worthy self-loving was just about interesting. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Here we have Hadfield singing David Bowie's "Space Oddity" Please take a few minutes out of your life to watch it.