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E63 - Tim Peake: Aiming high by staying grounded

The High Performance Podcast

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The Importance of Asking Questions

I left school with a C, D and an E in A levels. But I never stopped studying for the moment I left school. That's when physics and maths suddenly became really important to me. You won't get all of those just by studying textbooks and reading. You have to experience things as a young person that give you the ability to develop those social skills too. It's difficult to break down exactly what it was about space agency which gave you a flavor of what was going on there. And how much of your culture is based on interpersonal connections? How much of it depends on being able to get on other people’s backs? What would you attribute the best part of yourself

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