Fast Jet Performance
Former Royal Air Force fighter pilot and fast jet tactical weapons flying instructor talks about performance psychology and overcoming struggle to accelerate your life.
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- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
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Why Fighter Pilots Jettison the Baggage and Why You Should Too
I have a question for you. If you had to go to lunch tomorrow with someone that you’d never met before, would you feel nervous? It’s just like a blind date, I guess. But wait - there’s probably so…
Why You Should Forget the Awesome, for Now
INTERVIEW: Psychiatrist on why the wrong food and environment leads to poor mental health and performance
Today I get together with Theresa who is a Psychiatrist and mental health practitioner to talk at length on diet and nutrition and how to increase performance.
Also covered are the problems with prio…
When Good Pilots Go Bad - Mental Health Issues in the Air
Why Pilots Think ‘BIG’ and Why You Should Too
‘EJECT, EJECT!’ screamed my student from the front seat of our military training jet. That got my attention. Now, there’s probably not a situation that requires more of an immediate ‘ownership’ of …
Why Fighter Pilots Keep the Maths Simple and Why You Should Too
It's all my Fault and I'm Going to Make it Right
It was the sort of thing that only happened to other people but now it had happened to me. 'That's so wrong mate, I'd put a complaint in for sure - how dare he!' cried my friend down the phone when …
Well, You Got that Wrong - Let's Talk about ‘Military' Courage
His fist connected with my lower jaw, throwing my head back several feet from the impact. I didn’t feel pain as such but more of a huge disturbance, a very sudden and very real shock. I could feel …
Why You Self-Sabotage - How Planning for Failure is Giving You Permission to Fail
My team of instructors had just told me that they were never going to fly with him again and here he was, sat right in front of me. He had no idea. If you are a student going through military fas…
When Fighter Pilots Cry - Women and the End of Vertical Ambition
She was crying. It happens, and I knew that the best thing to say was nothing at all. 'Fuck! My eyes just leak, I don't know why they do it, I'm so sorry!' she stuttered. Women always apologise an…
The Passionless Pilot - Why the Advice to 'Follow Your Passion' is Inherently Flawed
Something was very wrong in my aeroplane. My student had locked the missile onto the heat plume of the hostile aircraft and I could hear the familiar 'growl' signalling it's imminent departure. But…
When Pilots Quit - Why We Must Stop Telling People They Are Valued Unless We Truly Value Them
I am expensive. Not that I have an apartment in Knightsbridge and wear Louis Vuitton shoes, no, but to the taxpayer, I am worth a lot of money. Every trainee fast jet pilot in the last 7 years has…
'Hit the Target, Don't Get Shot Down' - On Goals and Life
'Life is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans' - Death On the Roads
A quote that is often attributed to John Lennon was actually first used in 1957 in an issue of Reader’s Digest by a man named Allen Saunders. …and Mr Saunders was absolutely right.But he wasn’t the o…
'If You Don't Make a Decision in the Next 5 Seconds... We Are Going to Die.'
Yep, my instructor had made it pretty clear that I had a choice to make and I was going to have to make it fast. Ahead of me was a valley full of low stratus and, above me, solid weather that extende…
A Fighter Pilot's Thoughts on Managing Talent Through Empowerment
How to Create Insane Success with Just 3 Simple Steps
Did you know that some people come up with great ideas everyday that could earn them millions? It’s totally true.I had a buddy who came up with an app that he said was going to make him the next Mark…
The One Essential Piece of Career Advice that You Missed Out On at School
Want to know what we should've been told at school? Remember those career advisors who told you to do the right thing and get a steady job like your parents did? Well, they should have been saying so…
How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance.
‘RECOVER!’ came the shout from the back seat of my Tornado GR4 combat jet but it wasn’t necessary - I had already started to yank back on the controls as hard as I could! Our 25 tonne fuel laden bomb…