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Ready 4 Pushback

Ep05: Inertia | Don't Just Sit There!!

Ready 4 Pushback

Nik Fialka

Business, Careers, Leisure, Aviation

4.8716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Let's harness your motivation to keep going through Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion, inertia. Learn how to get the spirit of stagnation out of your aviation career as we discuss preparations to help you achieve your dream cockpit position. Start creating changes in your professional life by tuning in!

 

 

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE 

  • What is inertia and how it affects our movement
  • Why you should build a job application and have it reviewed
  • The importance of having prior knowledge about your desired companies
  • How having a network can help you with your job application
  • A realistic way to learn and prepare for an interview

 

 

RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONED

 

 

CONNECT WITH US

For any questions, exciting people to be on the show, or if you want free coaching about the aviation industry, send Nik an email at [email protected]!

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's convince ourselves that we are destined for this airline. Let's go look at the companies.

0:06.1

Let's go think about what company do you want to fly for? Understand who they are. What is their

0:11.6

culture? What are they all about? Where do you tie in for that? Most pilots don't understand

0:17.1

what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation. They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums,

0:26.6

meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood without having all the details.

0:31.6

This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry so you can find your dream job.

0:39.3

Let's get ready for pushback.

0:41.5

Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca.

0:45.6

Hey, pilot, it's Nick.

0:47.3

I hope you're having an awesome day.

0:48.8

And I want to talk to you today about a topic, I think, you will find important and relevant. And that's the

0:56.3

idea of inertia. And inertia, right, Newton's law, the tendency for a body at rest is to stay at

1:04.5

rest. But that's only half the story, right? The other half of the story is that a body in motion will tend to stay in motion.

1:12.7

So if that is the case, then you need to measure the inertia in your life, in your aviation

1:19.9

career. Inertia is making a decision to stop doing nothing and getting your career moving forward and then keeping it moving

1:30.9

once it's going. Recently reading a great book, it's called Atomic Habits by James Clear.

1:37.5

And the idea of the book is this, right? You can't control your luck. You can't tell when you're

1:43.9

going to get lucky. You can't tell what you're going to get lucky. You can't tell

1:45.6

what things are going to come your way. But the one thing you can do is modify your habits, right?

1:50.3

He says that if you change a habit to get better 1% each day, you will succeed. Making those

1:58.4

incremental changes in a habit every single day will lead to the

2:02.6

successes that you desire. So let's take that, right? You need to move yourself toward a tipping

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