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    Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
    Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
    Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
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    Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

    Written by Eric Greitens

    Narrated by Eric Greitens

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    You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience.

    In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn't seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging town, he d been struggling. Without a sense of purpose, plagued by PTSD, and masking his pain with heavy drinking, he needed help. Zach and Eric started writing and talking nearly every day, as Eric set down his thoughts on what it takes to build resilience in our lives.

    Eric's letters drawing on both his own experience and wisdom from ancient and modern thinkers are now gathered and edited into this timeless guidebook. Resilience explains how we can build purpose, confront pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Eric s lessons are deep yet practical, and his advice leads to clear solutions.

    We all face pain, difficulty, and doubt. But we also have the tools to take control of our lives. Resilience is an inspiring meditation for the warrior in each of us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMar 10, 2015
    ISBN9781427262325
    Author

    Eric Greitens

    ERIC GREITENS was born and raised in Missouri. After earning a Ph.D. as a Rhodes Scholar and serving as a humanitarian volunteer overseas, Eric joined the Navy SEALs and later became the 56th governor of Missouri. A boxing champion and a decorated combat veteran, he is the founder of the nonprofit The Mission Continues and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Heart and the Fist.,

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    • 5/5
      we really need "Resilience" during this pandemic. Thank you Mr. Eric Greitens for writing this book. It is helping through a very dark time.
    • 5/5
      One of the best books I've ever been fortunate to read. Insightful and down to earth with its pragmatic suggestions.
    • 5/5
      What a book! This is the way to think and seek resilience. It’s really the opposite of the ‘tough it up’ I would have expect from the navy seal. A great book about really successfully life looks like
    • 5/5
      Amazing. Practical philosophy of how to live and thrive based on the Stoics and other sages. Plus, Navy Seal wrote it ?