Seel Seal trainers often say pain is weakness leaving the body, that describes a fascinating alchemy, the transmutation of training induced pain into confidence.

Hey folks, this is Mark Devine with the Unbeatable Mind podcast.

Hope you're doing well.

Thanks for joining me today on this awesome day.

And I hope you are forging your Unbeatable Mind.

Today we're going to be doing a solo cast, no interview subjects today, no one subjected to my silly questions.

We're going to instead penetrate the way of the seal.

I've got a fifth anniversary edition of that book coming out on Memorial Day

and as a run-up I've been doing a little bit of riffing on some of the principles so today I'm going to look into Principal 4, do today whether those won't, and Principal Number 5, forge mental toughness.

And I'll read a little bit and then we'll also just discuss some insights about this.

Before I begin, if you haven't heard, we're trying to, we are not trying, do or do not, there is no tribe.

We are raising money and awareness for veterans who are suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Our goal is 22 million burpees, 22 million burpees and a minimum

$250,000 raise. That money will go through the Courage Foundation to support directly veterans who are

you know struggling veterans who are struggling and there's over 20 some odd a day committing suicide. At last I heard

the number was 22 that's why we chose 22 million burpees. So go to

burpies for vets.com to check it out. You can actually participate in a few ways.

One you can join my team and pledge a certain number of burpies and or pennies or cents per burpee.

I've committed to 100,000 this year,

so I'm cranking out 300 a day.

And I'm donating 10 cents of burpies, so that will be $10,000. Many people are donating a penny of

burpee and you know doing 50,000 or 20,000 over the course of the year or you can put together a team and just commit to another number

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