Summary of Christopher McDougall's Natural Born Heroes

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The German commander on Crete, General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, had a difficult time explaining what happened to his fellow commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. Kreipe had been captured by a British raiding force and taken off the island.
#2 The Butcher was suspicious that the general had been grabbed after he left the city, but his car was found only a twenty-minute drive away. Within that brief window, these mystery men executed an ambush, disarmed and subdued two prisoners, and smoked a pack of cigarettes.

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822548923
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Christopher McDougall's Natural Born Heroes
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23 Insights from Chapter 24 Insights from Chapter 25 Insights from Chapter 26 Insights from Chapter 27 Insights from Chapter 28 Insights from Chapter 29 Insights from Chapter 30 Insights from Chapter 31 Insights from Chapter 32 Insights from Chapter 33 Insights from Chapter 34 Insights from Chapter 35 Insights from Chapter 36 Insights from Chapter 37 Insights from Chapter 38
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The German commander on Crete, General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, had a difficult time explaining what happened to his fellow commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. Kreipe had been captured by a British raiding force and taken off the island.

#2

The Butcher was suspicious that the general had been grabbed after he left the city, but his car was found only a twenty-minute drive away. Within that brief window, these mystery men executed an ambush, disarmed and subdued two prisoners, and smoked a pack of cigarettes.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 2012, I stood where the general’s car was found, wondering where they could possibly go. The only possible escape was the southern coast, but the only way to get there was up and over Mount Ida, which was eight thousand feet high.

#2

The Butcher had a lot of resources thrown at finding him, and it seemed like they had him. But the longer he was missing, the more vulnerable the Butcher looked to his own men and his enemies.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

When you land on Crete, the island will appear frothy around the edges, like it just popped up from the deep. The island has another nickname, the Island of Heroes, which was bestowed on it by the ancients.

#2

The more I looked into Crete during the Resistance, the more stories I found of normal people doing extraordinary things. The Germans had landed on Crete, and they realized that they had entered a completely different kind of fight.

#3

The art of the hero was about being so competent that bravery wasn’t an issue. Heroes learned how to use their own body fat for fuel instead of relying on bursts of sugar, the way most people do today.

#4

The Greeks perfected a hero’s diet, which curbs hunger, boosts power, and converts body fat into performance fuel. They developed techniques for controlling fear and adrenaline surges, and they learned to tap into the remarkable hidden strength of the body’s elastic tissue.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

Churchill was quick to point out that Hitler was not a statesman, but a megalomaniac who derived pleasure from persecution. He warned Parliament that the most sinister men in the world were preparing themselves for every kind of novel stratagem and brutal and treacherous maneuver.

#2

Churchill came up with a novel tactic. He wanted to send lone phantoms to test the unwritten laws of war and execute whatever havoc they could imagine. He couldn’t use seasoned soldiers for this operation; anyone fit enough to fight was needed on the battlefield.

#3

Churchill was sure that his misfits could become heroes, and they believed him because they had seen a real superhero in the flesh. Lawrence of Arabia was more than their idol; he was their evolutionary road map.

#4

The ancient Greeks knew that everyone is tinged with a touch of the godly. To be a hero, you had to learn how to think, run, fight, and talk like a hero.
Insights from Chapter 5

#1

heroism is not a virtue, but a skill. It is not something you can do when you’re ready or when you’re tired. The tests do not start when you’re ready or stop when you’re tired.

#2

The Norina Bentzel attack was a perfect example of how the brain works. The amygdala, which is the fear-conditioning portion of the brain, accessed Norina’s long-term memory and saw that she had never climbed down a tree, and so it didn’t object to her climbing down a tree.