3 Career Tactics From a TOPGUN Fighter Pilot

In Navy, there's a word said "Calm is smooth, smooth is steady, steady is fast". When facing an emergency, your mind will naturally desire a solution immediately. Instead, pause and assess the situation to ensure you have accurate information to act on, plan your action. Then, when you choose to act, you can do so steadily and quickly.

Calm will control your emotion, as emotion is the enemy of good judgment. Emotions can sometimes serve as mental blinders.

Create an entire network of wingmen and women, and you make available a panoply of skills, expertise, and personalities to draw on for years to come, able to propel your career.

Snodgrass warns against viewing your network as exclusively self-serving. “You want to foster genuine friendships and not just that transactional type of relationship.”

Connect with people you don't need anything from, be genuine to learn from what they are doing, as you can learn anything from anyone you cross path with.