Allan Lokos on What We Control
Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of the community Meditation Center in New York City, and author of several books on peaceful living. On Christmas day, 2012, Lokos and his wife were in a fiery plane crash in Burma. Many doctors told him he would not survive his injuries. Yet he did. And continued to thrive. That journey …
Will Smith on the Perpetual Pursuit
I’m never going to be a good enough father. I’m never going to be a good enough husband. I’m never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed …
Follow Your Bliss. Fly the Plane.
Red Bull Air Racers Inner Game
“The clearest mind has the advantage.” “Red Bull Air Race pilots spend hours visualising their course. Some sit staring into space, simply picturing the air gates; others physically construct a scale model of the course in their hangars, walking through it over and over again.” “You should be listening to your plane.” ~ Paul Bonhomme. “You need to …
Planes Without Pilots?
If you put more technology in the cockpit, you have more technology that can fail. ~ Amy Pritchett, Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Georgia Tech. Quoted in the New York Times article Planes Without Pilots. The same piece also quotes the normally enthusiastic Professor Mary Cummings, a former fighter pilot and currently director of Duke University’s Humans and Autonomy Lab, …
Nicklaus on Doing Best
People only do their best at things they truly enjoy. Jack Nicklaus
Ageless Aviator Wisdom
AOPA Pilot magazine magazine has a great article by Dave Hirschman in the April edition about the Mavericks, four Florida pilots who fly formation aerobatics together. They are mostly in their mid-70’s. With long backgrounds in all kinds of flying. Ageless aviators with wisdom to spare: Just like artists or musicians, we’re constantly striving to master our craft, to try …
What is a Pilot’s Job?
[Mark Vanhoenacker] says his job is not “flying planes”, but “flying planes safely.” Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot is a new book on the magic of flight by a British Airways 747 pilot. It’s out now in the UK, coming to the US in June. Quote from story in New Statesman.
I Have Everything to Make Me Glad I am Alive
Published in 1913, John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London. Chapter 36 has these wonderful lines. He was ‘bestride’ a horse, but in an airplane the inner game seems the same: