149: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, with Chris Hadfield

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Careers, Management, Business

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🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Chris Hadfield: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

Author of the New York Times Bestseller:
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going To Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything*

“So many people in life, maybe without even acknowledging it to themselves, let fear dictate a lot of their decision-making.” -Chris Hadfield

Some keys to balancing sweating the small stuff and avoiding micromanagement

Visualize it going perfectly
Visualize failure before it has happened
- What’s the most likely 10 things to go wrong?
- Let’s simulate them and figure out how we will react to them
- Then run the simulation again to find the best plan and change behavior

Aim to be a zero

Begin by soaking up what’s going on and seeing what’s happening
Recognize the necessity to become educated and understand the subtleties of the environment

How to be successful at work and have a personal and private life that is successful and balanced

Clearly understand what people are trying to accomplish in a family
Make nobody’s sense of self worth dependent on anyone else’s identity
The good intentions of the day are always often sacrificed on the altar of reality

How successful people deal with the “what’s next?” question

“If I had ever said to myself that the only part about this job that I like, or that is worthwhile, or that is satisfying — is spaceflight, then I would have hated my life.” -Chris Hadfield

What really matters is what I am doing today

Question: How will you define success today?

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0:00.0	When we think of successful people, astronauts are often pretty high on the list.
0:06.0	Chris Hatfield flew on two space shuttles and commanded the International Space Station.
0:11.0	He's here today to share wisdom from his success that will help all of us right here on Earth.
0:17.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 149.
0:21.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:33.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:38.0	This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improve communication, human relations, and personal leadership
0:47.6	the people side of organizations and helping you to be more successful through the development of others in your
0:56.2	organization and I am so glad that you have joined me again for today's show and I have
1:02.2	to admit I'm a little bit giddy today and that's because I have
1:06.5	the pleasure of introducing someone that I know not only is going to give us great perspective on human effectiveness, but also who is an astronaut.
1:18.0	And when I was growing up, the space shuttle program here in the states was just getting started and like many
1:26.0	young kids of that era I was very enamored with the program, wanted to be an astronaut, and always thought astronauts were the
1:35.1	coolest people on the planet and in space.
1:39.6	And that's why I'm so glad to be able to welcome Chris Hatfield here to the show today
1:45.0	because I know in addition to his experience as an astronaut he has done a lot of thinking on human effectiveness and how we can be, we can learn lessons from the
1:56.7	success of really challenging ourselves to be as effective as possible.
2:02.2	Chris Hatfield flew on two space shuttles and in late 2012 began a six-month stint
2:07.5	aboard the International Space Station as its commander.
2:11.6	He chronicled work in life aboard the space station on
2:14.3	social media during his mission, attracting more than a million followers back here
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