Remove Before Flight

Self-Sabotage & My Plan to Overcoming It

Zachariah Moreno — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0700

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...

SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy

Zachariah Moreno — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:00:00 -0700

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 with my lady & it was pretty good! Maybe that’s its own episode I’ll wait
SpaceX & Elon Musk’s held the 4th annual update on their mission to colonize the planet Mars at an event at the company's facility in Bolsa 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)
Then called the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)
& what is now called Starship & Super Heavy
The MCT & BFR were conceptual designs that never left paper & pixels but were critical steps in SpaceX’s iterative design process, 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
The Raptor is an absolute beast & has already raised the bar in a few...

Kennedy Space Center & My First Stripe

Zachariah Moreno — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0700

Space

Met communications team at NASA Ames Research Center at NAB in Las Vegas
The team is led by Michele Johnson, director of communications
She introduced me to Kayvon Sharghi because he was organizing a tour of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in conjunction with Podcast Movement
Fast fwd to PM & we got to tour KSC!!!
Saturn V hanger
Vehicle Assembly Building
Launch Pad 39 B, tour by the director of the pad
The Rocket Garden, early Saturn launch vehicles
Space Shuttle Atlantis
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, NASA Explorers Apollo, NASA JPL On a Mission, & Rocket Ranch
Harry Duran 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 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

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, my instructor, & all of my training partners at Guardian Gym in Oakland
Guardian is a non-profit & 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

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