To live an uncommon life, one needs to learn uncommon disciplines.

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Also, I wanted to make a statement about the cool course that we recently completed and launched. It's a 30-day challenge and it's a condensed version of our really successful and effective one-year unbeatable mind foundation course, which has had thousands of people go through it.

We introduced all the cool principles of unbeatable mind in this 30-day course, 15 minutes a day, a video from me leading the training and then some journaling or reflection.

I get into box breathing, I get into visualization, I get into micro goals, all sorts of things. You're going to love it. I've heard that it's one of the best programs of its kind.

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It's free if you don't hang on to it after the 30 days. That's the way we did it. If you decide you want to keep it and continue to benefit from it, then you pay I think 99 bucks, so it's still ridiculously cheap.

So anyways, let's get on with the show today. I have no guests. I have myself as a guest and my book unbeatable mind, and I'm going to read the conclusion.

So this is end of a long journey. I mentioned if you've been following this that I've been working on the fourth edition of this book while simultaneously working on another book called Uncommon.

Yeah, it's not a great idea. So probably last time I do that, but so be it.

The pandemic led to some interesting outcomes. So this is the final chapter. I'm calling it a conclusion.

And it's an adaptation from a speech that I gave early in the pandemic to my alma mater Colgate University.

And it's titled Thriving in Vuka. Here we go.

Grandmaster Nakamura from my SATA karate days once told us all fall down seven times, get up eight, but it's how you get up that counts.

Do you get up with a smile on your face, having learned valuable lessons, or do you get up licking your wounds, wondering why you were the victim yet again?

In my early 20s, I was discontented. I wasted precious time and energy. And sitting on that meditation bench, not only transform my brain, it opened up my heart, making me a more effective leader in return.

Surprisingly, it also allowed me to tap into my soul's inner voice, which was strongly suggesting that I get on to my true path as a warrior.

You may recall from earlier in this book that in November 89, 1989, I received my CPA or certified public accountancy certificate.

I received my master's of business administration degree or MBA from NYU. I successfully passed the arduous black belt test in SATA karate.

And then I left it all behind for Navy Officer Kennedy School. And then shortly thereafter, I went to seal training in Coronado, California, graduating later as the honor graduate number one in my class.

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