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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

by chris handfield
🎧 13 min listen Biography & Memoir

Experience how an astronaut's rigorous training and unique mindset can help you conquer your everyday life on Earth.

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Chapter 1 Close your eyes and picture the darkest night sky you have ever seen.

Embrace the power of negative thinking. By obsessively anticipating every possible failure and planning for the worst, you eliminate fear. Aim to be a…

Chapter 2 Let us completely dismantle the most common piece of advice you have ever been given 🔒

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Chapter 3 Imagine walking into a high stakes corporate meeting 🔒

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Chapter 4 e spend so much of our short lives waiting for the grand moments. 🔒

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Chapter 5 The loud countdown finally reaches zero 🔒

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Chapter 6 Living in continuous microgravity forces you to completely relearn how to be a physical human being. 🔒

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Chapter 7 The inevitable return to Earth is essentially a highly controlled meteorite crash. 🔒

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An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Astronaut Chris Hadfield takes you on an exhilarating
journey into space, revealing how the unconventional
wisdom required for survival in orbit can transform your
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