Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time period he has broken right into a Space Train station using a Swiss military knife, removed a live snake while piloting a plane, and been briefly blinded while clinging to the surface of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield’s success-and survival-is an unconventional beliefs he learned at NASA: plan the worst-and appreciate every moment from it.

WITHIN AN Astronaut’s about An Astronaut’s Guideline to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything Information to Life on the planet, Col. Hadfield requires listeners deep into his years of training and space exploration showing how to make the difficult feasible. Through eye-opening, interesting stories filled up with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the assessed, calm responses mandated by crises, he points out how conventional knowledge can get in the way of achievement-and pleasure. His own extraordinary education in space offers taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don’t imagine success, do treatment what others think, and always perspiration the small stuff.

You may never have the ability to create a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in no gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his stunning and relaxing insights will educate you on how to think as an astronaut, and will change, completely, how you view lifestyle on Earth-especially your personal.