The Self Mastery Challenge – Week #7 – The next BIG experiment

19th August 2024

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"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

‘Through the Looking Glass’, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

My Uncle was a tail gunner in the second world war. He’d signed up, like many young people did, in his early 20s because he thought it was an exciting and noble thing to do. The fighter planes however were very good at shooting down the heavier and slower bombers so they worked out that rather than shoot at the fighter planes when they saw them, and reveal the position of the bomber because of the tracer bullets, it was better to do a corkscrew roll and avoid the fighter planes all together. The trick then became who saw who first and to make it easier for the tail gunner (my Uncle) to spot the …