Stillness Over Strategy: The NASA Cleaner’s Quiet Breakthrough
- Silvana La Pegna
- Jun 22
- 2 min read
There was a cleaner at NASA in the early days of the space program.
Not a scientist. Not an engineer. Just a quiet guy who swept floors and emptied bins.
Every day on his lunch break, he’d sit alone, eat in silence, and study the rocket blueprints pinned to the wall near the break room.
He didn’t say much. Didn’t have a degree.
But he noticed things.
One day, an engineer found a napkin in the bin with a sketch on it, on it was a rough sketch. A correction to an airflow issue the team had been struggling with for weeks.
They tested the idea.
It worked.
Breakthrough unlocked.
They traced the idea back to the cleaner..
When they tracked him down, he shrugged and said, “I just sit quietly, think through what I’ve seen, and listen to what comes.”
His sketches on that napkin got him quietly moved to the engineering floor.
Because stillness did what strategy couldn’t.
That’s what Monday Meditation is for.
You might not be sketching rocket solutions, but your life still runs better when your mind is clear.
The problem is, most of us never stop long enough to see clearly.
It’s like trying to find answers in a shaken snow globe.
Thoughts swirling. Pressure mounting.
Visibility: zero.
But when you sit still
Just for a moment
The flakes settle. The view sharpens.
And what’s been hidden becomes obvious.
That’s what we practice inside Monday Meditation LIVE.
You give stillness, clarity and truth a place to land.
And if you join Monday Meditation PLUS, you don’t just get the live session.
You get:
Replays to revisit when you need them
Short teachings that help you integrate what you’ve heard
And a quiet, steady space that sharpens your insight, even on messy days
If you’re ready for a breakthrough and less mental noise…
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