Name: Turn Fear into Motivation with Chris Hadfield | Discover MasterClass | MasterClass
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T12:19:35.000Z
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If you want to learn to walk, like most of us

I was just a little over a year old, I fell.

We were living in an apartment that had a concrete floor.

And even though no one had explained it to me,

even at that stage, biology and evolution and the world

where learning to walk, which is dangerous, was worth doing.

As an astronaut, that sort of becomes your life.

We've had people die underwater training to do spacewalks.

But much like learning to walk or learning

to ride a bike, if you can gain this skill,

if you can do this thing, then maybe those risks

And in my case, I decided a long time ago

I'm not just a person who is blindly taking a risk.

thinking human who is trying to do something that we haven't

done before and figure out how I can defeat the risk, how I can

beat the danger and put us in a new place,

get to that new place safely, come out the other side

I like what that does, actually, in that if you say, "I'm

going to take a risk because it's worth it",

You are now part of the process by which you're

You're part of this thing, trying to make this happen.

and I'm about to get in, I know it's dangerous.

I've been thinking about the danger of it

That's not the only defense mechanism that I have.

and my job has not been to sit there and cross my fingers

My job is now to pilot this thing, or at least

and safely defeat the risk, get out the other side of it

And I sort of treat everything in my life that way.

so that I can achieve the things that I think are important?

No astronaut launches for space with their fingers crossed.

We don't just take it as somebody else's problem.

We are ready to confront the risk head on and recognize

that there is a difference between danger and fear.

because in English, it's sort of crept in--

Some people are afraid of open spaces, confined spaces.

But that's just your reaction to a thing that exists.

Maybe there's a danger there I shouldn't be confronting.

I am never going to be a tightrope walker.

To me, there's so much danger in walking down

a tightrope and so little benefit to getting

across the tightrope that it's not a risk I'm willing to take.

I can feel the fear of doing it, and the fear

warns me that this is a danger that I don't

And the real, I think, important step in life

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