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Friday, June 20, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
On Conquering Fear and Reaching Dreams
An inspiring TED Talk from Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield. You may remember Chris as the astronaut who temporarily went blind during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station last year, and rightfully so - it's an incredible story. His blind spacewalk, though, turns out to be most remarkable for the ways in which it is unremarkable to Chris himself.
Chris talks about the powerful moment when he reached the impossible dream of his childhood, as he boarded the Space Shuttle for the first time. His thoughts echo those I had when boarding a C-17 from New Zealand, en route to Antarctica for the first time. A humbler dream than spacewalking, no doubt - but still, a tremendous moment of pride and joy and awe, attaining something I had thought all but impossible for so many years. Impossible is nothing.
Chris talks about the powerful moment when he reached the impossible dream of his childhood, as he boarded the Space Shuttle for the first time. His thoughts echo those I had when boarding a C-17 from New Zealand, en route to Antarctica for the first time. A humbler dream than spacewalking, no doubt - but still, a tremendous moment of pride and joy and awe, attaining something I had thought all but impossible for so many years. Impossible is nothing.
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