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Don Mann - BOOK - The Navy Seal Playbook · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Time and step up your game. Let's learn from a
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  Speaker 1: Navy Seal. I love to I'm happy to welcome the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five Carasey Morning Show. And God bless him and
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  Speaker 1: all other Navy Seals and everybody else who serves our country.
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  Speaker 1: Try to do everything we can for the American veteran
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  Speaker 1: and active service personnel on the fifty five Carsee Morning
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  Speaker 1: Show today. I am pleased to bring to the fifty
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  Speaker 1: five Case Morning Show Don Mann. And you may very
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  Speaker 1: well know him. You Marredy recognized his name. He is
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  Speaker 1: a decorated combat veteran, motivational keynote speaker, athlete, an author,
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  Speaker 1: and talk about author. His autobiography Inside Seal Team six,
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  Speaker 1: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors, a national
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  Speaker 1: bestseller also at Washington Post political bestseller. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: his recent works are Seal Team six military thrillers. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to work of fiction that is all
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  Speaker 1: cloaked in actual fact, you got Hunt the Wolf, Hunt
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  Speaker 1: the Scorpion, and Hunt the Falcon. Also other popular books
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  Speaker 1: he's written the Navy Seal Survival Handbook, The Modern Day Gunslinger.
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  Speaker 1: I could go on and on, Don Man, Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five caroseing More show. Thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: service to our country and your service to everybody else
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  Speaker 1: with your brand new book, The Navy Seal Playbook Principles,
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  Speaker 1: Practices and Strategies for Achieving Success. Good to have you
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  Speaker 1: here on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I got to tell you, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a whole lot of experience. I did not
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  Speaker 1: serve my country. I am always impressed because I've seen
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  Speaker 1: some of the training that the Navy Seals have to
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  Speaker 1: go to and all the hurdles that you have to
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  Speaker 1: overcome even become a Navy Seal to know that I
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  Speaker 1: could not do it, which will lead me to another question.
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  Speaker 1: But I did get the opportunity, and thank you to
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  Speaker 1: my retired Lieutenant colonel and fifty cow trainer. I got
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  Speaker 1: to go to Camp Adderbury in Indiana on two occasions
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  Speaker 1: now and shoot fifty cows training the Navy Seals. So
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  Speaker 1: that is I got to tell you, man, And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you're cut from the same cloth as those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are awesome. They're just regular folks. It was
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  Speaker 1: like watching a bunch of fraternity brothers get together and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy themselves while they're training on fifty and just an
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  Speaker 1: impressive group of young men. And if they're representative the
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  Speaker 1: other Sealed teams, these are Seal Teams two and three. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: we we are in great hands when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: defending America's interest.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, well, thanks for saying all that. And you
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  Speaker 2: know there's other ways to serve your country. You said
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  Speaker 2: you then serve, but you're still serving it in what
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  Speaker 2: you do. I believe, and you know there's other ways
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  Speaker 2: we can serve our country. And so as far as
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  Speaker 2: shooting the fifty cow and a bunch of team guys
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  Speaker 2: sitting together training and shooting a fifty cow, that those
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  Speaker 2: are some fun times. Yes, so I can used on
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  Speaker 2: them at their finals.
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  Speaker 1: And considering the rounds we were shooting were one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty bucks a peace, you know, I got some
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  Speaker 1: of my taxpayer dollars backed on. Anyhow, Over the Navy
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  Speaker 1: Seal playbook, this what you have done is broken down
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  Speaker 1: and you're obviously here to talk about it. The principles
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  Speaker 1: of being a Navy Seal and what you apply as
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  Speaker 1: a name seal, operating under extreme pressure, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 1: how we out here in the regular world can apply
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  Speaker 1: those principles. And I want to start with and this
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  Speaker 1: lets me pivot over. Is there a certain personality type?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Navy seals seem to me to be the
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  Speaker 1: epitome of bad assy, that there is a certain mindset
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  Speaker 1: that even wanting to become a Navy seal, that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us just don't have. And I imagine it's
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  Speaker 1: the people who really don't have maybe that get go spirit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the idea of overcoming challenges that are in
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  Speaker 1: front of a little perhaps hesitation to do it, or
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  Speaker 1: worry or concern. Maybe it's those personality types that you
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  Speaker 1: wrote this book for.
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  Speaker 3: Don your reaction, well, you know, as far as the
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  Speaker 3: type of person that it takes to become a seal,
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  Speaker 3: I've been asked that quite a few times, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't really have an answer for that.
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  Speaker 2: Because when you get into the seal teams, you finish buds,
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  Speaker 2: and you go get into any of the seal teams,
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  Speaker 2: you realize you're around a bunch of people with completely
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  Speaker 2: different background. So you might have people who are bikers,
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  Speaker 2: or you might have like great athletes or scholars, or
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  Speaker 2: people whose hobby is religion, or you get a group
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  Speaker 2: of people come from all walks of life, but there's
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  Speaker 2: something deeper in them, and that deeper, that deeper emotion,
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  Speaker 2: I think it is or that what they have inside
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  Speaker 2: of them gives them the ability to focus on something powerful,
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  Speaker 2: which God, country family is how I grew up. But
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  Speaker 2: when you get into the seals, you know it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be tough. And all these people, everybody goes through buds.
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  Speaker 2: Who doesn't quit, I should say those who finish, they
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to focus on finishing and the mission objective,
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  Speaker 2: no matter where they came from, the mission objective is
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  Speaker 2: to finish Buds. There's going to be one hard evolution
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  Speaker 2: at a time, and all you have to do is
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  Speaker 2: think about getting through that evolution, and it might be
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  Speaker 2: a four mile swim, it might be a ten mile
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  Speaker 2: soft stand run. You finish that evolution, you don't even
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  Speaker 2: think about anything else. And what helped me so much,
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  Speaker 2: and I always give this advice is not to have
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  Speaker 2: a backup plan. Don't have any backup plan at all,
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  Speaker 2: because if you're laying there and you feel like this
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  Speaker 2: is torture, this is just so grueling, I can't take
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  Speaker 2: it anymore. I should have been a pilot or I
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  Speaker 2: should have been an accountant or a doctor or something.
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  Speaker 2: Then these are to switch paths. But if you're so
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  Speaker 2: determined that buds is what you want and you are
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  Speaker 2: going to finish and you're going to become a seal,
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  Speaker 2: no backup plans. I think that's the best way to
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  Speaker 2: go at it. And that's what all these people have
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  Speaker 2: in common. They didn't quit and they knew this is
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  Speaker 2: all they wanted to do because they can focus on
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  Speaker 2: the mission of finishing training and then the end goal
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  Speaker 2: is to become a seal and go work for the
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  Speaker 2: you know, if it's got your family, that's what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. I've never heard anybody say don't have a
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  Speaker 1: backup plan, although I personally have never had one. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wait for tomorrow to figure out what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do tomorrow. But you know, putting into practical terms,
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  Speaker 1: as a Navy seal, if you're in the foxhole where
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  Speaker 1: there are no atheists, you don't have a backup plan.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, And and you know I had the I
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  Speaker 2: was a triathlete when I was younger, and I used
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  Speaker 2: to race and train with the best trathletes in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And the number one guy in the world. His name
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  Speaker 2: was Dave Scott and he became King of Kona. He
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  Speaker 2: was the number one trithlete in the world. And I
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  Speaker 2: asked him before he won his first Iron Man. I said, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: how do you stay in such great shape? He said, well,
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  Speaker 2: the doctors disagree with me, but I don't take any
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  Speaker 2: days off. I work out every day of the year.
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  Speaker 2: So he told me that I was very young, I
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  Speaker 2: was very impressionable as already. This is way before I
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  Speaker 2: was a seal. I was thinking, that's what I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do. That's going to help me become a seal.
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  Speaker 2: So I just worked out every day for over twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: Is I never took a day off. And but what's
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  Speaker 2: happened since then. I took that great advice Dave gave me,
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  Speaker 2: and I expanded on it, and then I started following
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  Speaker 2: this as a principle for my life. But what I
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  Speaker 2: love sharing with people, especially young people, is if you
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  Speaker 2: want to be a seal, or if you want to
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  Speaker 2: climb mountains, or if you want to go to delta force,
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  Speaker 2: so you want to just do something tough, there's only
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  Speaker 2: four things you have to do every day. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Just four things. Like I worked out every day because
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  Speaker 2: Dave Scott suggested I should work out every day. I
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  Speaker 2: just change it to just do four things every day
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  Speaker 2: and you can become a Navy seal or whatever else
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  Speaker 2: you choose to do. And those four things are every day,
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  Speaker 2: do something that makes you stronger, you know, measure it,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you're getting stronger. That could be cross fit,
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  Speaker 2: it could be going to the gym. It could be
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  Speaker 2: doing the workouts in your garage. It could be whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is, pete on the lawn. But every day, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're getting strong every day.
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  Speaker 1: So number two, oh go ahead, Oh yeah, no no no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, I'm sorry, energyack, go ahead, and number.
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  Speaker 2: Two every day. And this is if you want to
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  Speaker 2: become a seal. Now, if you want to become something else,
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  Speaker 2: you just modify this somewhat. But if you want to
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  Speaker 2: become a seal, every day, do something make yourself faster.
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  Speaker 2: That could be wind sprints, it could be he'll, he'll work.
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  Speaker 2: It could be on the track, feed work in the pool,
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  Speaker 2: you know, doing five hundred meters, you know, faster than
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  Speaker 2: you did it the last time you did the five
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  Speaker 2: hundred meter swim or the two thousand meter swim. But
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  Speaker 2: just get faster. If you can do one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty setups in three minutes, do it in two minutes
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  Speaker 2: and fifty seconds. But so number one gets stronger, Number
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  Speaker 2: two get faster, And then I think more importantly, every day,
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  Speaker 2: do something to make yourself smarter. So if it is
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  Speaker 2: the teams you want to get into, look back at
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  Speaker 2: the history of World War Two, and look what we've
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  Speaker 2: done in the teams in Vietnam and in all the
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  Speaker 2: wars since, and what's going on now in the ninety
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  Speaker 2: plus countries the teams are operating in now, and learn
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  Speaker 2: to shoot and learn about weapons and learn. Just go
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  Speaker 2: take a skydiving course and a scooba course, and just
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  Speaker 2: get smarter every day. So at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: day when you go to bed, you know I've become stronger,
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  Speaker 2: I'm faster, and I'm smarter than I was yesterday. And
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  Speaker 2: then number four, I think is the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: is every day do something good for somebody. And that
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  Speaker 2: could be your mother, it can be your wife, it
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  Speaker 2: could be the neighbor next door struggling to carry out
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  Speaker 2: the garbage. But just do something good for somebody every day,
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  Speaker 2: because by the end of it, if I'm talking to
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  Speaker 2: a twelve or a fifteen year old and they take
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  Speaker 2: this advice, which I wish I did at that age,
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  Speaker 2: they might just wind up at selection or at BUDS,
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  Speaker 2: maybe being the strongest and the fastest, the one who
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  Speaker 2: knows more about what's going on and what they're getting into,
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  Speaker 2: and the one everyone wants in the team because there's
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  Speaker 2: such a good teammate and a team player. So Dave Scott,
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  Speaker 2: that triathlete, when he gave me that piece of advice,
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  Speaker 2: that shaped my whole life, and he didn't even know it.
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  Speaker 2: I was just a triathlete there. I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: do a thousand competitions to prepare myself for BUDS, and
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  Speaker 2: the Iron Mans were some of the competitions I was doing,
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  Speaker 2: and he gave me that as advice to be a
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  Speaker 2: great triathlete. But now I've just added a couple components
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  Speaker 2: to it for people who want to become seals.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now pivoting over, because this is great life advice
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, but pivoting over from those who might want
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  Speaker 1: to become seals and applying the principles that you learn
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  Speaker 1: to become a seal to Let's say, I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of anxiety and stress out there. How
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  Speaker 1: does one And this involves I guess a good sizable
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  Speaker 1: amount of discipline on the part of people out there
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  Speaker 1: trying to deal with life day in and day out.
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  Speaker 1: They need to have this cognitive mental discipline. They need
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  Speaker 1: to have a daily structure, as I understand from what
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  Speaker 1: you write, have consistent habits. But in terms of strengthening
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  Speaker 1: mental toughness in this crazy world we live, how do
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  Speaker 1: you train people to deal with moments of uncertainty and stress.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you get inoculated to stress and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of shooting and a lot of explosions and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of chaos is going on all around you in training.
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  Speaker 2: And if you took someone off the street and you
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  Speaker 2: put them in one day training, they could have a
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  Speaker 2: heart attack, you know, because it's so chaotic. But this
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  Speaker 2: becomes a daily ritual. This is just what happens every
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  Speaker 2: day in life. And we have this thing where most
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  Speaker 2: all the seals, I'd have to say, every seal I
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  Speaker 2: know when something terrible has happened, a shooting or a
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  Speaker 2: helicopter crash or something terrible has happened, have the ability
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  Speaker 2: to stay calm. For instance, there I was at a
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  Speaker 2: I was involved, and there was a helicopter crash, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too graphic, but one of
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  Speaker 2: the young rangers was decapitated by the rear rotor and
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  Speaker 2: I was right there, and I was there helping them out,
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  Speaker 2: and while helping out the others who were part of
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  Speaker 2: the crash, and of course the one who was decapitated died,
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  Speaker 2: but the others didn't die. And it was just taking
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  Speaker 2: care of those guys, staying calm under pressure, getting these
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  Speaker 2: guys on the helo. And the best situation, the best
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  Speaker 2: example I have ever seen, is when our three star
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  Speaker 2: general came up. My mouth was filled with blood from
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  Speaker 2: doing mouth to mouth on mouth to crike on one
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  Speaker 2: of the guys, and I was covered with blood. There
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  Speaker 2: were senators and congressmen there, and this was a demonstration
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  Speaker 2: at Fort Bragg, and this three star general was in
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  Speaker 2: charge of everything. This helicopter crash, and there was a
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  Speaker 2: decapitated soldier on the ground, and I was covered with
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  Speaker 2: blood helping these people, and I was taking care of
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  Speaker 2: all the medical emergencies, and he came up to me,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, why don't you go rinse off your
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  Speaker 2: face in your mouth? The show must go on, meaning
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  Speaker 2: what you have to do now is the shooting demonstration
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  Speaker 2: and climbing demonstration. He was so calm under pressure. And
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  Speaker 2: whenever I think of times under pressure, I was captured
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  Speaker 2: at one time and I felt calm. I knew I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be killed. I knew these guys weren't
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  Speaker 2: going to kill us. I wasn't right in knowing that,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what I believed. And you just know you're
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  Speaker 2: going to come out victorious. And when things go wrong
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  Speaker 2: all around you and you stay basically because your training
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  Speaker 2: from day one has built you built a foundation around you,
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  Speaker 2: so you're inoculator. Things happen, explosions, gunshoots, you know now
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  Speaker 2: that somebody wounded. Things get bigger and bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 2: But you're trained to react and stay calm because when
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  Speaker 2: you are calm, you can react with one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of your faculties. And that you know, if you're not
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  Speaker 2: calm and you're going bastic and you lose control yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have one hundred percent to react, and that's
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  Speaker 2: when you need one hundred percent of yourself to react
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  Speaker 2: to keep things in control or save.
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  Speaker 1: Lives, and as a seal, if you break down, we
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  Speaker 1: know what failure might mean, and in that circumstance and
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  Speaker 1: of course in our day to day lives, failure can
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  Speaker 1: mean a lot of other things. But staying calm one
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  Speaker 1: of the principles you can learn in the Navy Seal
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  Speaker 1: Playbook Principles and Practices and Strategies for Achieving Success. Learn
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  Speaker 1: about building elite level discipline, strengthening and mental toughness, leading
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  Speaker 1: and collaborating like a seal, and breaking through barriers. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what. I cannot thank you enough for spending
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  Speaker 1: time with listeners and me, and of course writing the book.
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  Speaker 1: Don Man, retired US Navy Seal, thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: service to our country and your ongoing service in the
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  Speaker 1: form of these wonderful books you write. We're looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the next fiction book as well, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: great having you on the show, Sir,