Quickcut: S2E177 Lessons From a War Hero

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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“I learned that the prison was not the eight feet between the walls. It was eight inches between my ears.” – Captain Charlie Plumb

It takes extraordinary resilience to survive the impossible. In this episode, Brian interviews former navy fighter pilot and Vietnam Prisoner of War, Captain Charlie Plumb. Captain Plumb explains how on his 75th combat mission over North Vietnam, five days before he was due to return home, he was shot down. Captured, tortured and imprisoned, he spent over 2,000 days as a POW in an 8ft x 8ft cell. Topics discussed include: Why his naval training was vital, how his parents’ philosophies of discipline and forgiveness helped him to survive and which daily routines kept him going.

YOU WILL LEARN:

What he learned about himself during his time in captivity.
Why he believes adversity can bring opportunity.
How strong leadership transformed his prison experience.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

“I’m No Hero,” by Charlie Plumb

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“The good news is, when you have that opportunity to sit still nearly six years, you go back through your mind, and you learn an awful lot about yourself.” – Captain Plumb

“I think the biggest thing I learned about myself was that regardless of what is around me, I still can make choices about my response to the things around me.” – Captain Plumb

“Lots of times the biggest opportunities in life are wrapped up in the package that looks like a big-time problem.” – Captain Plumb

“There's a lot of people in the marketplace today that are struggling there. They have total freedom and yet they're in a prison in their mind.” – Brian Buffini

“Acid does more harm in the vessel it's stored than on the subject it’s poured.” – Proverb

“I think the good life to me means a life of service. And I'm under the belief that if you help enough people get what they want, you can have a very, very successful life.” – Captain Plumb

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	Top of the morning to you, we have an incredibly special guest for you today.
0:19.0	He's retired naval captain Charles J. Plum, decorated veteran Captain Plum, Charles J. Plum, Decorated veteran Captain Plum flew 74 successful missions
0:26.3	over Vietnam.
0:27.2	And five days before he was supposed to return home,
0:29.6	his plane was shot down.
0:31.0	And he spent nearly six years in a Vietnamese prison of war camp.
0:36.0	His story is incredible.
0:37.4	It's recounted in the book, I'm no hero.
0:39.6	I am so excited to have Captain Plum on the show today. I'm so excited to expose you to a man who
0:45.8	says he's not a hero, but if Captain Plum isn't a hero, I don't know who is. So at Charlie
0:50.5	Plummer, I want to welcome you to the show. Brian, it's my pleasure and honor to be with you. I appreciate you and all your listeners.
0:56.8	We're going to dive right in. You flew 74 successful missions. You were five days away from coming home.
1:02.4	Tell us what happened a month later on that 75. missions. You're five days away from coming home.
1:02.5	Tell us what happened a month later on that 75th mission.
1:06.1	Well, it was another big air strike close to Hanoy.
1:09.3	At the time, Hanoy was the most heavily defended city in the world, was Hanoy North Vietnam Vietnam and we were flying right into it and so that day that
1:18.2	close to that city were missiles all over the sky and so I jinked this way and I didn't even see the one that came
1:25.7	up my tail and blew us out of the sky. So I ejected, my co-pilot ejected and our
1:30.4	parachutes opened and we came floating down over enemy territory.
1:34.4	You know you're heading into something bad, right? You know you're close to Hanoy, you've heard
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