lack of encouragement, 100 rejections, gender discrimination—could have stopped her. Any one of those would have been enough reason to quit.She didn’t quit. She just kept moving forward, one rejection at a time, one flight hour at a time, one barrier at a time.When reporters asked her about her achievement, she didn’t talk about breaking barriers or making history. She talked about loving flying, about the privilege of piloting Concorde, about the satisfaction of doing something she was told was impossible.”Success isn’t about where you start,” she’s said. “It’s about how far you’re willing to go.”Barbara Harmer started cutting hair at 15. By her 40s, she was breaking the sound barrier in Concorde.That’s not luck. That’s not privilege. That’s pure, relentless determination—the willingness to face 100 rejections and send out application 101.The next time you face rejection, remember: somewhere, a hairdresser with no qualifications took out a massive loan, got rejected 100 times, and became the first woman to pilot Concorde.She didn’t start with advantages. She created them through sheer refusal to accept “no” as final.The sky wasn’t her limit. It was just her destination
