You're not going to get a You can only be confident internally when you can control the mind and your emotional state to a point where you can see the truth clearly.

All right, so welcome back.

This is the Way of the Seal.

Principal number eight. Think offense all the time think offense all

the time so what I've seen a lot in business is a passive or almost a defensive attitude and of course as you can

appreciate in the SEALs passivity or defensiveness would get you killed or at a

minimum lead to you know

know failure of the mission or suboptimal results and of course you know the

business world is starting to look a lot like a seal battlefield. It's vukk, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and you have to have an offensive mindset to navigate those environments.

And so this whole chapter was try to get the reader

and you to think offensively all the time.

Now that doesn't mean you have to become a jerk

or overly aggressive and plow over people, it really is about how you deal with decision

making with total confidence, with expanded awareness, you know,

beginning with what we've talked about in chapter

last principal seven, learning how to act unconventionally

by doing the unexpected, overcoming those biases, and leading with rapid execution fail-forward fast mentality.

Let's start by talking about confidence.

You know, I know a lot of folks mistake a feeling of being in control or security for confidence.

In fact, you can't control anything and nothing is really secure and being attached to any outcome whatsoever is a false indicator of confidence, a false flag.

Unwavering confidence only comes with developing a mindset of resiliency where you've let go of any

expectation as to the results that you're looking for, but you have a radical focus on the methods, the detail to the methods and your own training and you're in control of your own body mind and emotional state as you execute. So you're making really, really good

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