by Jim Davidson | Sep 29, 2014 | Resilience, Training, Uncategorized
In physical conditioning, there is a concept called “progressive overload”. The idea is that you gradually add more and more of whatever exercise you want to do. By increasing the load you expect your body to handle, it adapts and becomes stronger and more capable. ...
by Jim Davidson | Sep 22, 2014 | Resilience, Training, Uncategorized
Life is uncomfortable at 24,000 feet. I could barely eat or sleep. I couldn’t sit up without getting a headache. Sprawled out across my smelly sleeping bag, my pulse throbbed angrily at 100 beats per minute. My blood, thick with an excess of newly forged red...
by Jim Davidson | Jan 23, 2011 | I Shouldn't Be Alive, Resilience, Uncategorized
The cavernous room was dark. I struggled not to squint at the bright stage lamps streaming light against my face and eyes. From the twilight edge of my vision, just left of the huge video camera, the interviewer’s voice thrust forth question after question, each...