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Although I am posting today, on July 27, I attended Hawaii Business' 5th annual Leadership Conference yesterday and was able to hear Captain Scott Kelly speak.
He is an astronaut and holds the NASA record for longest consecutive days in space which is something like 340. He gave a humorous, yet inspiring, talk about his upbringing and what he did at NASA. It was extremely interesting and for this blog post I'd like to share a little about it.
I could relate to Kelly because he was like me. He wasn't very interested in school and was a very poor student as a child. It wasnt until he realized that if he fixed his study habits, he could someday be an navy test pilot like some famous astronauts were in a book he read. So he changed them and became a pilot in the Navy. This is similar to myself because I could care less about school but understood that if I could buckle down and learn to accept some responsibility, I could go far in life and to this day going back to school is one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.
So when he was finally accepted to train to be a pilot in the navy he was terrible. He was so bad they tried to talk him into another career field but he wouldn't have it. He knew that he could study hard and try to pass his pilot test one more time and if he did his best, and still failed, then he would move on. What happened was, he passed! That is how Kelly became a pilot in the Navy. Did I mention that during the first pilot test he failed he almost killed himself? Anyways..
A few years later he got the call from NASA to become an astronaut and the rest is history. I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU THE REST OF HIS STORY BECAUSE YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE. On a side note, thanks to my job, I got to interview him later in a private room and let me tell you - don't meet your heroes.
He is an astronaut and holds the NASA record for longest consecutive days in space which is something like 340. He gave a humorous, yet inspiring, talk about his upbringing and what he did at NASA. It was extremely interesting and for this blog post I'd like to share a little about it.
I could relate to Kelly because he was like me. He wasn't very interested in school and was a very poor student as a child. It wasnt until he realized that if he fixed his study habits, he could someday be an navy test pilot like some famous astronauts were in a book he read. So he changed them and became a pilot in the Navy. This is similar to myself because I could care less about school but understood that if I could buckle down and learn to accept some responsibility, I could go far in life and to this day going back to school is one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.
So when he was finally accepted to train to be a pilot in the navy he was terrible. He was so bad they tried to talk him into another career field but he wouldn't have it. He knew that he could study hard and try to pass his pilot test one more time and if he did his best, and still failed, then he would move on. What happened was, he passed! That is how Kelly became a pilot in the Navy. Did I mention that during the first pilot test he failed he almost killed himself? Anyways..
A few years later he got the call from NASA to become an astronaut and the rest is history. I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU THE REST OF HIS STORY BECAUSE YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE. On a side note, thanks to my job, I got to interview him later in a private room and let me tell you - don't meet your heroes.
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