Today's lesson from skydiving: Study Like Your Life Depends on It! My marked-up SIM It may very well depend on it one day (your life, that is, may depend on what you have studied). How do you think MacGyver was always implementing just-in-time solutions to get out of jams? How I "Study" for Skydiving When I prepare for a jump as an AFF student, I: Read the SIM to be sure that I understand the learning objectives for that category, as well as to be sure that I am aware of the dive flow and the canopy dive flow. Reread the SIM for that category, highlighting important parts of the text. Take notes from the highlighted material, rewriting the information on notecards. Study the notes I have taken on these notecards, highlighting the most important information on them. Mentally rehearse the entire jump from door to ground several times a day. Physically rehearse the entire jump as much as possible: practicing in the mock up of the door, rehearsing c
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