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###UNREAL CONDITIONAL

The fear is powerful before and during Jeb’s jumps, so much so that he sometimes trembles and cries.

If you were going to jump off a cliff wearing only a wingsuit and a parachute, would you tremble and cry, too? Yes, if I were going to jump off a cliff with only a wingsuit and parachute, I would probably tremble and cry, too.

But once he steps off that cliff or leaps off that helicopter, things get very simple: success is the only choice. As Jeb says, “It’s like a hurricane inside your head, every nerve ending is saying don’t do this. Once you take that step, there is no coming back. It will change you as a human being.” If you took that step by jumping out of a helicopter, do you think the experience would change you as a human being? Yes, I think the experience of jumping out of a helicopter and flying through the air would change me as a human being. I would probably be less afraid of confronting my fears after that. And I would probably be less afraid of death.

As Jeb sees it, success is inevitable. He explains, “I don’t believe you can fail. You only fail if you give up. The second you decide ‘Oh, I’ll just give up.’ That’s you! You’re the one making that choice. You’re the one choosing to fail. You have to make the decision to fail. Whereas if you don’t ever make that decision; you say, ‘No, I’m going to keep going until it fricking happens, well then you don’t fail. You’re just in the process of making it happen.” If you believed that failure was a choice, how might it change your life? If I stopped making the decision to fail, I would be a stronger person. I would be a more positive person. I would see failure as part of the process of success.

And there’s no doubt that Jeb lives by these words. In early 2012, while flying off Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, Jeb’s lower body struck a rock ledge in mid-flight. He broke both ankles, a leg, and three toes while sustaining a major bloody gash in his skin that required skin grafts to close.

If you broke both ankles, a leg, and three toes, how would you feel? If I broke both ankles, a leg, and three toes, I would feel terrible. I would be in great pain. In fact, I would probably need to take painkillers for many weeks.

It is amazing that he was even able to pull his chute.

If you had been Jeb, would you have been able to pull your chute? I’m not sure. If I had been Jeb, perhaps I would have been able to do it. But if it were me, I might not have been able to do it. I’m not sure.

While some would have taken that incident as a warning sign to give up, Jeb saw it as simply another stepping stone in the path to making his dreams come true.

If you had been Jeb, would you have seen the accident as a stepping stone in the path to making your dreams come true? Yes, if I had been Jeb, I would have seen that accident as a stepping stone in the path to making my dreams come true.

A year-and-a-half later, he was back in the air, making it happen again. His ultimate dream is to jump out of a helicopter and land without a parachute, realizing one of the last great challenges remaining on earth: human flight.

If you had the opportunity to realize human flight, would you take advantage of it? No, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t risk my life to achieve human flight. If I were Jeb, I would do it, but if it were just me, I wouldn’t.

Some people call Jeb Corliss crazy.

If Jeb were in front of you, would you call him crazy? Yes, I would call him crazy if he were in front of me. And if I said that, then Jeb would probably take it as a compliment.

Jeb responds by saying, “You want to know what I think is crazy? I think waking up at 6 AM, eating breakfast, then getting in a car and sitting in traffic for an hour-and-a-half on your way to a job, where you then sit in a box for eight hours, get a 30-minute break to eat some lunch, get back in that car to sit in traffic for another hour-and-a-half on your way home where you eat dinner watch some TV, go to sleep. Repeat that until you’re about 60, you retire and then you die. I think that is absolutely insane.”

If you were Jeb, would you work a nine-to-five job? No way. If I were Jeb, there is no way that I would work a nine-to-five job.

For Jeb, falling is a conscious choice, and he does have some degree of control. Of course, it is still terrifying, and he could die at any moment, but isn’t this true for all of us? One thing that none of us has control over is death.

If you could have control over death, would you want to have such a power? No, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t want to have control over death. If I had control over death, it would make life much less interesting.

As Jeb explains after surviving another close encounter with instant death: “I’m just so happy. I’m just so happy to still be here. You know, my time in this world is limited. But the things that I can do with that time are not. We are all going to die. The question is are you going to live while you’re here.” If your time in this world were unlimited, how would it change the way you live now? If my time in this world were unlimited, I would take my time with everything I did. I would never be in a hurry. I would do everything slowly.