Comments on: The Fighter Pilot Mindset: It Saved My Life

By: John

John — Sat, 14 May 2011 06:43:35 +0000

Self Discipline isn’t so hard when you do Martial Arts or learn how to learn and deal about your self more.

By: Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:36:30 +0000

The toughest challeng I have had to overcome is genral self disiplen and 100% comitment to my goals. I’ve found myself on the edge of fininshing pesonal progects, not being even a day away form completion and fallen shot. failing to fallow threw. I’m proud to say that threw determination and self inprovment i now follow threw with what i start and now look for harder and harder obsticles to overcome. Play video games on thier hardest leves avalible, and desine my air craft with extrem ideasand consepts, working-out is balenced in with studing… sometimes at the same time to stay awake. I think in the end i have become a person with swithch caritoristics; I’m searuse when need be and have fun when i can

By: Duke

Duke — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:14:59 +0000

It is great that someone handles youngsters dreams about becoming a fighterpilot. But even thou have the best motivation, even you really want to be the best of the best, no problem to become a minister of death, if your spine is a ‘crap’, than you can f*ckyourself, right? 🙁

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:10:00 +0000

I think the toughest challenges I have had to overcome is everything I have done in the past 2 years of working toward this goal of becoming a fighter pilot.

I truly got serious about this when I was 24yo, and I still had about 3 years of college left to complete. The only problem was the age cut-off for the Navy is 27, so I needed to get those 3 years done in less time. To add to the challenge, I am living alone and supporting myself 100%, so I also had to work full time. In the past 2 years, I have been working 40+ hours a week, comepleted over 150 hrs of community service, lost 30 lbs of body fat, maintained a GPA over 3.5, all while being enrolled in 18 hours a week of college, which is the max number of hours the University of Houston allows students to take.

People kept telling me I am setting myself up for failure, and that I could never pass my classes or keep my job; but I did. I graduated with honors last month and got an awesome recommendation from my boss. The same people tell me there’s no way I will be able to become a fighter pilot; should I believe them?

Things did get pretty tough at times. There were nights that I had big papers due the next morning, or a major exam, and I kept thinking to myself there is no way I will ever pass this class. My key to overcoming challenges is dedication. I know we hear the word “dedication” a lot and it sounds great, but to me it means devoting yourself 100% to your objective, making every single sacrifice neccessary to achieve it, and like Ed says, “never, ever, ever give up.”

By: Richard Olds

Richard Olds — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:06:31 +0000

The toughest thing I’ve ever had to do, so far, was to get my private pilot license. In high school I never studied well, and I learned real quick that aviation is almost ALL studying. It was stressful, but it was something I wanted, so I did what it took to get there. And it also got me used to hard work and hours of studying, so now, as I work toward my degree, and becoming a military pilot, I get good grades, and I’m more accustomed to giving 100% all the time.
Life’s like riding a dirt bike- it can be a lot of fun, but you’ll get into ruts sometimes. When that happens, you just have to rev hard and get yourself out.