487 - In Honor & Memory... We Hear An Air Traffic Controller’s 9/11 Story: How Chris Tucker Saved Lives

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Chris Tucker is a former air traffic controller. He was working in New York City on 9/11. And spent the whole day trying to keep the passengers of two hijacked planes safe. This episode is his story. It's heroic. And it saved lives. But Chris says, "I was just doing my job." I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.5	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	All we do, we're traffic controllers keep airplanes apart from one another.
0:18.6	That's our job, you know, keeping apart from one another and apart from the ground.
0:23.4	It's a complicated business, but you know people walk up to you on the street and they say,
0:26.5	well you're a traffic controller and the first thing out of them out is that's a very stressful job.
0:30.7	And that's true, the job can be stressful, but not because we're responsible for other people's lives.
0:35.9	The stress comes from the fact that when you get busy you have a large number of decisions to make
0:42.5	and they stack up in like a queue in your brain.
0:46.5	And your brain can only hold 5 or 6 of them and keep them straight.
0:50.5	If you have 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 things that have to be done,
0:54.5	it produces a tremendous amount of stress.
0:56.9	I was under tremendous amount of stress at that time, but we all were.
0:59.9	Were you feeling exactly what does that mean?
1:01.5	Okay, so that's a good question.
1:02.9	So controllers, our job is to keep people safe.
1:06.7	And in the end, the way we think about pilots, passengers, airplanes, they're kind of like our babies.
1:14.1	Right? We take care of them.
1:15.9	There are our babies, you know, and watching an aircraft crash at any time, regardless of, you know, the cause.
1:24.3	Is a tremendously negative thing for a controller.
1:27.9	And it can have tremendous emotional effects on controllers' lives.
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