by Eric Greitens
I found this book very helpful and highly recommend it. The book teaches us self-control and personal development disciplines, understanding ourselves, taking control of our decisions, and correcting our attitude.
Some of my lessons from this book:
- Resilience is a being able to move forward in difficult times, building a character that keeps one in a control in adversity, and having the ability to transform the fear to courage, the pain to wisdom, and the suffer to strength.
- Happiness comes when we engage in the service to others, working toward excellence, and being grateful.
- Act according to your identity. Think about your identity who you are and what your core principles are, then act accordingly. Finally, you may feel the feeling. Try to act based on your best self no matter how hard the situation is
- Don't retire from learning, challenging, and experiencing. Learning new skills, experiencing unfamiliar projects, and building new habits provide self-respect, joy, and confidence. They will make us more resilient.
- Accept your fears, learn to control them effectively. Know that fear is a healthy emotion. It provides more vision to see a potential risk of the situation. Controlling fear is important. Do not be a slave of it.
- Think about hard questions, ask and try to answer them. They will help you to grasp the inside meaning of the things and actions. Find a philosophy in everything and everywhere, search good sides of the difficult moments, learn the lesson, extract wisdom, and feel the experience.
- Know the pain may reach to anyone in this world and none can escape from it. Instead of panicking or blaming someone, accept your pain, be patient with it, search workable solutions.
- Have time to stay with your thoughts. Solitude or staying with our own thoughts will give us an opportunity to understand the things around us, to extract a pearl of wisdom, and to find solutions for problems.
Thank you for reading!
Great summary!
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