ATLANTA — Just as a nose-down attitude can send an airplane into a steep descent if not corrected quickly, a negative mindset can cause someone’s marriage, career or business to spiral downward.
“I have found that people going through life with ‘nose-low attitudes’ often don’t know it,” said former commercial pilot and flight instructor Ricky Brown. “When we’re in the intensity of a situation, we often don’t see ourselves the way we truly are.”
Why take lessons in attitude adjustments from a pilot? Because the Federal Aviation Administration identified five hazardous attitudes as factors in nearly every aircraft accident, and, as Brown points out, “Crashes in life are not exclusive to aviation.”
In his new book of leadership fables, The Five Hazardous Attitudes: Ways to Win the War Within, Brown illustrates each of these attitudes — anti-authority, invulnerability, macho, impulsivity and resignation — and brings them to life through compelling stories with clear points of application, making it an essential read for anyone seeking to conquer self-sabotage, eliminate blind spots, and improve both their professional and personal lives.
“We can learn costly lessons from the characters in the book without having to pay the high price of learning ourselves,” Brown noted.
Brown includes a powerful self-awareness tool to help readers recognize these damaging traits within themselves, and then he takes it one step further: Brown reveals the corresponding antidotes for each hazardous attitude and equips readers with the strategies — and the encouragement — to conquer their destructive tendencies from the inside out.
“We all know the saying, ‘Your attitude determines your altitude,’ but awareness alone isn’t enough to create change,” Brown added. “Knowledge without action is like having wings but never taking flight.”
About the Author
Pilot, speaker and author Ricky Brown has shared his transformational message throughout the U.S. as well as in Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Jordan, Turkey and Ghana, to name a few. He’s been a commercial pilot, pilot instructor, and has served in ministry for over 20 years as a church planter and lead pastor. He is also a United States Air Force veteran. He is the president and founder of Speak Life Inc. He has served on various nonprofit boards and speaks to a wide audience, from corporations to congregations and universities. His signature talks center on The Five Hazardous Attitudes. He and his wife, Amber, and his daughter live in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
For more information, please visit www.architectyourattitude.com, or follow Brown on Instagram @allthingsrickyb and LinkedIn @allthingsrickyb.