Minisode Monday #58 | Chris Hadfield: Boss In Space

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Commander Chris Hadfield (check out our full episode with him here) was the first Canadian to walk in space, but the experience went far from smoothly. In this Minisode Monday, he explains how he went temporarily blind but still managed to finish the task before him -- and what we on Earth might learn from his ordeal. The Cheat Sheet: Humans didn't evolve in zero gravity; you can never overtrain for life in orbit. If you can't navigate to the bathroom in the middle of the night, imagine trying to build a robot in space without being able to see. When something goes wrong, an astronaut must heed the immortal words of Douglas Adams: "Don't panic." We could all learn from what Chris Hadfield did when he found himself blind in space. What would you do if you were in his astroboots? To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text CHARMED to 33444. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response or write to Jordan directly: [email protected] (he actually reads everything)! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Listen to The Art of Charm, Forbes Network, and hundreds of your favorite podcasts with the free PodcastOne app (on iOS and Android) here! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-58-chris-hadfield-boss-space/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

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0:00.0	Hey Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm. Welcome to Miniso Monday. This is your weekly shot
0:05.0	of personal development espresso and I'm happy to be here with you kicking off the week with
0:09.5	something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that'll make you more magnetic
0:14.0	and effective. Today we're back with Commander Chris Hadfield who was on the show recently
0:17.6	discussing well everything from living in space for six months to the mindset of an astronaut.
0:22.1	There's a little bit of extra tape we had about him going blind in space while outside the shuttle
0:28.5	on a spacewalk and what he learned from that. During my first spacewalk we were outside building a
0:34.0	huge robot part of the outside of the space station real complicated procedure and nothing was
0:38.8	going as planned and while I was working away suddenly one of my eyes started hurting really
0:44.1	bad and snap shut started tearing up and I couldn't see out of it anymore. What do you do? I can't
0:49.9	rub it because it's inside my helmet. I'm out there on a spacewalk. I got unlimited amount of time.
0:55.9	It's kind of like well I could still see out of my other eye so that's probably why I got a backup
1:01.6	eye you know. It's like we got two ears you know two eyes so I just kept working but the trouble is
1:08.8	our bodies are designed for gravity and the reason that your eye tears up partially is because
1:15.4	it flushes whatever the contaminant is that's in your eye it's a modified sweat gland actually
1:20.4	that's up underneath your eyelid but it's a very complex chemical mixture that comes out that's
1:24.8	the actual liquid of your tears but it comes into your eyeball and then it drains and it either
1:29.6	drains down your cheek or in your little tear duct and out your nose and that's why your nose runs
1:33.3	but it's like a little waterfall but without gravity it doesn't go anywhere. This contaminated
1:39.0	water just sat there on my eye and got bigger and bigger ball of contaminated water. Unfortunately
1:44.4	until it got so big that it flowed across the bridge of my nose into my other eye and then both
1:48.7	my eyes were contaminated and blinded and now I couldn't see it all. So there I am my first
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