#105: Lessons from a Navy SEAL on Resilience With Eric Greitens

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Eric Greitens is a Rhodes Scholar that started out his career as a humanitarian but then became a Navy SEAL. His book The Heart and the Fist makes that case that in order to be a good man, you have to be strong enough to fight for those you’re trying to do good for. His book Resilience is based around a series of letters between him and a SEAL buddy that was going through a rough time in his life with alcoholism, job loss, and PTSD. Greitens calls upon his background in philosophy to provide insights and advice for his struggling friend on how to develop resilience in the face of adversity. Eric and discuss what resilience is and how one develops it. We also talk about "uneven courage" the "morality of intentions" and how action proceeds feeling. An illuminating conversation. One of my favorites.

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0:00.0	I'm really excited about our guest today.
0:22.1	One of the most fascinating people I've ever encountered, his name is Eric Ritons, Truman
0:25.6	Scholar, Road Scholar, Super Smart Guy, studied at Oxford. He did humanitarian work with
0:30.9	War Fugies in Croatia and Verwanda and other places in the world. After he graduated from
0:36.3	Oxford, he decided to become a Navy SEAL. Did that? Went through Buds Training, became
0:40.2	a Navy SEAL. Actually did combat, earned the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star. After that,
0:46.2	he continued his work with humanitarian aid, teaching people how to be leaders. He wrote
0:51.4	a book about his experience as a humanitarian and as a Navy SEAL. It's called the Heart
0:55.2	of the Fist and his latest book is called Resilience. I'm going to say right here, it's
1:00.6	the best book I've read so far this year and I think it's going to be the best book I've
1:04.9	read in 2015. Hands down, one of my all-time favorite books. What it is, it's a book that's
1:11.3	inspired by the letters that he wrote to a Navy SEAL Bud who was going through a hard time
1:16.6	and it's all about becoming more resilient in life. And Eric combines philosophy from
1:23.6	Aristotle, Thucydides, modern psychology and his own experience as a Navy SEAL and lays
1:30.0	out a philosophy of resilience. And I've read a lot about resilience, studied a lot about
1:34.8	resilience and this is by far the best book I've read about the topic. Eric and I are going
1:39.2	to talk about resilience, what it means how to develop it, fastening discussion. So let's
1:43.6	do this.
1:49.0	All right, Eric Gritans, welcome to the show.
1:51.2	Hey, Brett, great to be on with you. Real pleasure to be with you.
1:54.1	All right. Well, so before we get into your latest book, Resilience, let's talk a little
1:57.8	about your background because it's really fascinating. So you started out as a humanitarian
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