Without persistence, courage is just a highlight reel. Purposeless suffering will break you.

Purposeful suffering will build you. Your persistence gives others permission to persist.

When your code is clear and your Y is larger than yourself, then the distinction becomes easier to make.

Micro commitments collapse time back into the now.

When you see repeatedly what's on the other side of persistence,

you start to want more of that.

Anyone can act once.

Most of us can push through a single hard moment.

Adrenaline handles that for us.

Emergency handles it. And adrenaline is free.

It shows up without being asked, does its work, and then it's gone.

The real question is, what do you do when it leaves?

After the feeling fades, after all that energy and that focus, then the grind sets in. When there's no audience, no

milestone, no finish line in sight, just the next rep, the next step, the next day,

the next decision, either hold the line or let it slip. That's where persistence lives. That's

what we're going to be focused on today.

Welcome back to the Mark Devine show.

I am Mark Devine, your host and former Navy SEAL commander, founder of Seal Fit and Ville Mine, and super stoked to be bringing this sheepdog strong series of training podcast to you.

We've been building something over the last few episodes.

We laid the ground with ethos.

That's your code, your operating system.

Then last time we built our courage, the trained ability to choose action in the presence

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