Remove Before Flight

* Sometimes you are your biggest obstacle * Endless justifications * Giving yourself permission to stay the same * My self wants to stay the same because it's comfortable * Our modern lives condition us, more than ever, to seek & expect comfort * I've been the same weight for around 12 years * Excluding my internship at Google where I gained 30+ pounds, lost it, & plateaued again * I promise to tell that story in a future episode * When I zoom out & think about those 12 years, I'm comfortable weighing 280 pounds * Which sounds ridiculous to say out loud & publish on the web * When I zoom in on the day to day I am uncomfortable being overweight * When I was a kid I was worried I wouldn't be tall enough to ride a rollercoaster * As an adult I'm worried that I'm too overweight to ride a rollercoaster * So I have to ask my self, "why are you so comfortable being uncomfortable?" & "why are you protecting that short-term comfort from the long-term comfort?" * It's nonsensical & this week my self-sabotage came to life in the form of not training jiu jitsu * So I sat down to meditate, looking deeply into why I made these decisions & to see what I could learn about my self to overcome this form of sabotage in the future * I have plenty of justifications for why I didn't go to class, like I told you I would * We shipped a product update early Tuesday morning * I felt weak after being sick the week before, losing some momentum * We had a lot of meetings that required me to switch up my schedule & go to class at different times * So I listened to my inner saboteur, didn't uphold the commitment I made in last week's episode, & I didn't go * I also temporarily forgot why I'm doing all of this * It's not to loose 💯 pounds, that's a small part of my bigger reason * It's because I've committed to accomplishing the goal of going to Space * If Elon Musk had texted me & said, "we have a ticket for you next week" I would not be able to go * I'm getting ready now so I can go in the near future & I forgot that * Instead...

HEALTH & FITNESS * I’ve been sick this week & haven’t trained any Jiu Jitsu * Hygiene is critically important in BJJ * To protect my training partners I sat this week out * I’m planning a future episode just on Hygiene SPACE NEWS * We had a big week * I saw Ad Astra [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2935510/] with my lady & it was pretty good! Maybe that’s its own episode I’ll wait * SpaceX [https://www.spacex.com/] & Elon Musk’s held the 4th annual update on their mission to colonize the planet Mars [https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY] at an event at the company's facility in Bolsa Chica, Texas [Bulsa Chica, Texas] * Mostly the launch vehicle, spacecraft, & all of the technology needed to get us there * What was originally called the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_transportation_infrastructure] * Then called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_%28rocket%29] * & what is now called Starship & Super Heavy [https://www.spacex.com/starship] * The MCT & BFR were conceptual designs that never left paper & pixels but were critical steps in SpaceX’s iterative design process [https://medium.com/the-paragon-of-innovation/how-spacex-reached-orbit-turning-aerospace-on-its-head-9383c9e8f031], that is uncommon in aerospace * Whereas Starship & Superheavy development is in contrast well underway * We’re going to start from the bottom of this vehicle & work our way upward * Starting with a completely new rocket engine that SpaceX calls it’s Raptor Engine [https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/] * The Raptor is an absolute beast & has already raised the bar in a few...

SPACE * Met communications team at NASA Ames Research Center [https://www.nasa.gov/ames] at NAB [https://www.nabshow.com/] in Las Vegas * The team is led by Michele Johnson [https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/team/Michele_Johnson.html], director of communications * She introduced me to Kayvon Sharghi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvonsharghi/] because he was organizing a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center [https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/] in conjunction with Podcast Movement [https://podcastmovement.com/] * Fast fwd to PM & we got to tour KSC [https://podcastmovement.com/congratulations-to-the-pm19-attendees-selected-by-nasa/]!!! * Saturn V [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V] hanger * Vehicle Assembly Building [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building] * Launch Pad 39 B [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39], tour by the director of the pad * The Rocket Garden [https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/explore-attractions/heroes-and-legends/rocket-garden], early Saturn launch vehicles * Space Shuttle Atlantis [https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/explore-attractions/shuttle-a-ship-like-no-other] * The growing food in space / botany program * Growing food on the Moon & Mars * Got to meet the creators of all the NASA podcasts including Gravity Assist [https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist], NASA Explorers Apollo [https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-explorers-apollo], NASA JPL On a Mission [https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/on-a-mission], & Rocket Ranch [https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/rocketranch] * Harry Duran [http://fullcast.co/harry-duran-bio/] held a panel discussion with the creatives & engineers behind these Podcasts at Podcast Movement the following day * I also read Dr. Space a biography on Wernher Von Braun by Bob Ward [https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Space-Life-Wernher-Braun/dp/1591149274] during this trip, which I highly recommend * Thank You Kayvon & the team at NASA for organizing an amazing tour * it was a near religious experience for me, thank you * photos from the tour [https://photos.app.goo.gl/khi9bVR5xHKLk2UX6] BJJ * I've been training for nearly 7 months now * I got my first stripe on my white belt during a white belt seminar at guardian * Thank You Caleb Khan [https://www.guardiangym.org/jiujitsu-instructors], my instructor, & all of my training partners at Guardian Gym [https://www.guardiangym.org/] in Oakland * Guardian is a non-profit [https://www.guardiangym.org/our-story] & please consider donating * Moving to a new location in Oakland near Emeryville that is way bigger * I did my first water fast for 3 days with very positive results * I've been consistently intermittent fasting since starting BJJ * Drinking lots of water * & Focusing on consistently going 3 times per week Thank You Again to Michele & Kayvon, NASA KCS, Harry Duran, Caleb & Guardian Thank You for Listening

Why loose 100 pounds? Why Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? Why learn Russian?

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