First Man In: Leading from the Front

In that instant my entire sense of who I was just fell away. I’d made a mistake, and that mistake became who I was in my entirety. It defined me. It was me. I felt like a fraud, like I didn’t deserve to be on Selection at all. My mind was telling me, ‘I’m not what I think I am. I’m not what I believed I could be. I’ve bitten off far more than I can

They locked me into a tiny cubicle and I was driven to Chelmsford Prison. I didn’t look out of the window. That world, out there, of shops and music and sunlight was nothing to do with me anymore.

It takes a stronger, smarter person to have the courage to wait.

life will offer you the opportunity to prove why you’re the leader. And when it does, it’s all up to you.

Don’t be intimidated by all the people you have to beat to get to the top.

attention to detail. If you get the small things wrong, big problems will find you.

There’s always a route around your weakness.

‘What don’t I like about myself?’

The smart people in the room aren’t the ones giving it out – they’re the ones taking it all in.