If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moments.

And that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and dot com.

I hope you're enjoying your memorial day so far.

What we're going to do this week is something a little different.

Since it is graduation week for so many students out there,

I thought I would feature some of the best clips from some of the very best

commencement speeches.

Today we have Admiral William H. McCraven on the show.

And he's going to share some of the life lessons that he learned from Navy SEAL training.

Here's that, Admiral.

Every day during training, you were challenged with multiple physical events,

long runs, long swims, obstacle courses, hours of calisthenics,

something designed to test your metal.

Every event had standards.

Times you had to meet.

If you failed to meet those times, those standards, your name was posted on a list.

And at the end of the day, those on the list were invited to a circus.

A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to wear you down,

to break your spirit, to force you to quit.

No one wanted a circus.

...