That’s what Dr. Bernard Harris (physician, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and the first African-American astronaut to walk in space) told me about an hour ago as we were recording an episode of the Strategy Skills podcast.
For years, we were taught the term “zero gravity.”
In truth, it doesn’t exist.
Microgravity is what astronauts experience. Gravity is everywhere. Always present, even if only in trace amounts.
That small shift in language holds a larger insight:
Many high-performing professionals are operating on false assumptions.
We don’t question the phrases we’ve accepted.
We don’t re-examine what we were taught.
We often don't know what we don't know.
When I was a child I remember telling my beloved grandmother that I wanted to be an astronaut. She said women can't become astronauts.
I believed her.
And she believed it, otherwise she would never limit me this way.
So much of what holds us back isn’t real.
It’s inherited. Repeated. Unchallenged.
What beliefs are you still carrying that were never true to begin with?
What have you accepted as fact that’s quietly shaping your life?
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There is No Zero Gravity.
That’s what Dr. Bernard Harris (physician, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and the first African-American astronaut to walk in space) told me about an hour ago as we were recording an episode of the Strategy Skills podcast.
For years, we were taught the term “zero gravity.”
In truth, it doesn’t exist.
Microgravity is what astronauts experience. Gravity is everywhere. Always present, even if only in trace amounts.
That small shift in language holds a larger insight:
Many high-performing professionals are operating on false assumptions.
We don’t question the phrases we’ve accepted.
We don’t re-examine what we were taught.
We often don't know what we don't know.
When I was a child I remember telling my beloved grandmother that I wanted to be an astronaut. She said women can't become astronauts.
I believed her.
And she believed it, otherwise she would never limit me this way.
So much of what holds us back isn’t real.
It’s inherited. Repeated. Unchallenged.
What beliefs are you still carrying that were never true to begin with?
What have you accepted as fact that’s quietly shaping your life?
It’s worth revisiting.
Everything changes when you start seeing clearly.
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