Shortly after reading Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine, I picked
up a copy of another book he wrote around the same time called The Way of
the SEAL by the same author. The appeal of some of the tools in Unbeatable
Mind made me curious about his second offering. While the books were
not marketed as a series, there were some great tools and skills to be gleaned
from both.
The author, Mark Divine, attributes his lessons to his SEAL
training as well as martial arts training and discipline, but the wisdom he shares
is not isolated to special operations or martial arts communities. The book is
full of acronyms and mnemonic devices meant to help drive home lessons and
tools, and with any book like this one, there’s nothing necessarily new about
the offering except the way the author has put it together, and his personal
stories to illustrate concepts.
And those stories, concepts, and strategies are incredibly
helpful for anyone looking to live their life with greater productivity and
purpose. One of the great tools in the book is a series of questions meant to
assess your starting point to be able to know how much daylight there is
between who you are and who you want to be.
Another great tool the book offers is examples of
battle/weekly rhythms for moving forward. Over the last twelve months between
personal fitness, leadership coach training and certification, taking class at
Harvard, moving Nuru International’s mission forward, and striving to be a
better husband and father, I have needed to develop a battle rhythm out of
necessity. Mark’s book, among others, was
incredibly helpful in thinking about and developing of that rhythm.
Looking for a solid book to help you map out a plan to move
forward and take the next steps in your personal development, check out The Way Of
The SEAL.
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