Resilience in Flight

In paragliding, your eyes and brain must be locked on your landing field. If your attention drifts to a tree, a fence, or a road… that’s where you’ll likely end up. That applies to other areas of life as well - when we have a purpose—when we focus on where we want to go—things start to align. Not perfectly. But directionally. And that’s what resilience is all about.

Resilience & Flight: Lessons from the Cockpit: In this series, I explore how the principles of aviation can help us build resilience....

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As an amateur aircraft and paragliding pilot, I like to search for parallels between flying and various life aspects. My amateur status...