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Resilience
- Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
- Narrated by: Eric Greitens
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience.
In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn’t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he’d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.
Eric s letters drawing on both his own experience and wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers are now gathered and edited into this timeless guidebook. Resilience explains how we can build purpose, confront pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Eric s lessons are deep yet practical, and his advice leads to clear solutions.
We all face pain, difficulty, and doubt. But we also have the tools to take control of our lives. Resilience is an inspiring meditation for the warrior in each of us.
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- Glynn
- 2020-08-21
Intuitive perspectives, valuably given
I suffered a spinal injury many years ago, not nearly to the levels of combat injured soldiers, yet it did affect mobility and mental health. I had no team behind me, no common people with whom to learn. I’d lived a life in chronic pain, in grief at a life lost, in depression and despair, knowing I had strength and courage but not how to apply it.
Life had become merely survival, about enduring and providing. I’d lost perspective on how to live.
Resilience, through Greitens’ use of examples from ancient sources, where life was very much more precarious, very much helped in bringing me back. To the somewhat obvious, in hindsight, realisation that although I will never meet the physical standards of the fit, able bodied man I was, that doesn’t prevent me pursuing excellence. It doesn’t prevent me being the very best I can be within my limitations.
Indeed, it allows me to push those limitations in a positive and achievable way. That joy exists not just in a result, but in the effort of gaining it. That injury doesn’t make me weak, or incapable, if anything it makes me stronger and more capable as I have to think of novel ways to achieve a result that others may take for granted.
This book provides valuable insight to maintain perspective for sustaining my improvements and success.
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- Curtis
- 2019-01-07
Nothing but buds, annoying narration
Greitens often sounds like he is yawning while he's reading his own book. I don't like his inflections and upspeak. Furthermore, look into his background. There is a reason the only difficulties this guy talks about is from the Navy Seal training program buds. Real Seals who have seen combat, not just made it through training (unlike Greitens), don't respect this guy one bit. Find your inspiration elsewhere people.
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