Summary of Eric Greitens's Resilience

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Resilience is the virtue that allows people to move through hardship and become better. It is the result of putting your shoulder into what’s painful, and it makes the difference between success and failure.
#2 We have all experienced pain and hardship, and we have all learned how to become resilient. We do this through practical wisdom, which is embedded in our language, art, literature, philosophy, and history. But in an age of distraction, we’ve lost touch with practical wisdom.
#3 To be resilient is not easy, but it is not difficult. It takes constant practice to make yourself more resilient, but it is worth it. To get there, you must choose to live a resilient life.
#4 I was fortunate to have learned from great examples of resilience, such as refugees who survived genocide, other Navy SEALs who endured the hardest military training in the world, and wounded veterans who have rebuilt purposeful lives.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• General
• Self-help
• General officer
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822501447
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Eric Greitens's Resilience
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Resilience is the virtue that allows people to move through hardship and become better. It is the result of putting your shoulder into what’s painful, and it makes the difference between success and failure.

#2

We have all experienced pain and hardship, and we have all learned how to become resilient. We do this through practical wisdom, which is embedded in our language, art, literature, philosophy, and history. But in an age of distraction, we’ve lost touch with practical wisdom.

#3

To be resilient is not easy, but it is not difficult. It takes constant practice to make yourself more resilient, but it is worth it. To get there, you must choose to live a resilient life.

#4

I was fortunate to have learned from great examples of resilience, such as refugees who survived genocide, other Navy SEALs who endured the hardest military training in the world, and wounded veterans who have rebuilt purposeful lives.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

To be happy, successful, and achieve any worthwhile goal, you must endure hardship. The benefits of struggling and facing pain are so valuable that if they could be bottled, people would pay dearly for them. But they can’t be bottled.

#2

The wisdom that we draw from the struggles of our predecessors is not exclusive to experts or professional scholars. It is available to us, and we only have to go out and get it.

#3

We all need courage and wisdom. We don’t look back because life was better in the time of Aeschylus. In fact, in almost every way, life is better today. But to realize the potential of the present, we must heed the wisdom of the past.

#4

There is no simple equation for the good life. The discussion can only be as precise as the subject matter allows. With resilience, you are not in search of an achievement, but a way of being.

#5

A masterful philosopher will use all of the words that she needs and no more. Words have weight, and we have to carry what is essential and leave much of the rest behind.

#6

When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent that they shut out everything else, we need to know the strong fortresses of the spirit that men have built through the ages.

#7

The same can be said for wisdom. We are surrounded by an abundance of wisdom that, if not as close as air, is almost as accessible. It is up to you to direct your attention to the wisdom about resilience that is already all around us.

#8

The test of a philosophy is simple: does it lead people to live better lives. If not, the philosophy fails. If so, it succeeds. Philosophy used to mean developing ideas about a life worth living, and then living that life. It still can.

#9

Everyone has a philosophy, and it’s important to be aware of the way your assumptions, beliefs, and ideas drive your actions. Are you aware of the way those assumptions, beliefs, and ideas add up to shape your life.

#10

We need challenges to master and problems to solve. If we are kept from doing hard and meaningful work, we begin to atrophy as people. Without purpose, we can survive but not flourish.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The Athenians elected Sophocles to lead troops in battle, after he wrote the play Philoctetes. The play depicts the hardships of war and the responsibilities of community, and it reflects the wisdom of knowing that someone who can write such wisdom about the two can also lead with wisdom.

#2

We cannot abandon our wounded, and we must not forget that their pain does not wipe out our obligation to serve. We must stay alive and serve others, regardless of how we are treated.

#3

When we think of resilience, we usually think of it as meaning bouncing back after a hardship. But life’s reality is that we cannot bounce back. We cannot go back in time to the people we used to be.

#4

When pain hits you, it hits a moving target. You must understand that your objective is not to come to rest, since there is no rest. Your objective is to use what hits you to change your trajectory in a positive direction.

#5

To be strong at the broken places is to be resilient. Hardship can create a helpless person or a heroic one. Some people are made stronger by suffering, while others are defeated. The difference is resilience.

#6

Resilience begins with you, Walker. It would be easy to ignore this point, but it is critical. When we discuss the challenges we face, we often overlook what we have done to contribute to our situation.

#7

Resilience is distinct from mere survival and more than mere endurance. It is the ability to endure and continue on despite adversity. You must ask yourself where you are headed, and what you are enduring for.

#8

The first step to building resilience is to accept the consequences of your actions. You are not responsible for everything that happens to you, but you are responsible for how you deal with what happens to you.