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Navy SEAL Self-Discipline: How to Develop the Mindset, Mental Toughness and Self-Discipline of a U.S. Navy SEAL

By Dominic Mann

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Table of Contents

Navy SEAL Self-Discipline: How to Develop the Mindset, Mental Toughness and Self-Discipline of a U.S. Navy SEAL

Table of Contents

Introduction Operate at the edge of whats possible

Navy SEAL Principle #1: You are responsible for absolutely everything

Navy SEAL Principle #2: He who has a why can bear almost any how

Navy SEAL Principle #3: Create a mental trigger to get through the direst situations

Navy SEAL Principle #4: Systems, processes, and discipline equals freedom

Navy SEAL Principle #5: The 4 keys to mental toughness

Mental Toughness Pillar #1: Set Goals Like a Navy SEAL

Mental Toughness Pillar #2: Mentally Prepare Like a Navy SEAL

Mental Toughness Pillar #3: Master Your Self-Talk

Mental Toughness Pillar #4: Arousal Control

Navy SEAL Principle #6; The 3 components of resilience

Forge Strength through Purpose, Teamwork, and Challenge

Navy SEAL Principle #7: The 40% rule

The SEAL Cheat Sheet

Introduction

Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Navy SEAL motto

Do today what others wont; do tomorrow what others cant.

Mark Divine, retired Navy SEAL

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OPERATE AT THE EDGE OF WHATS POSSIBLE

Navy SEALs operate at the edge of whats possible.

They are constantly pushing their limitsboth mental and physical.

Heck, theyve even made a motto of it: The only easy day was yesterday, SEALs tell themselves (and SEAL instructors shout at trainees). Its something SEALs live by.

But its not the only thing they live by.

Navy SEALs have a culture of ruthless efficiency . Of lethal effectiveness . Andmost importantlyof relentless self-discipline .

And, like all of the great warrior cultures of the pastfrom the Samurais to the SpartansU.S. Navy SEALs reinforce these warrior values with an unspoken set of principles they live by.

Now, ask yourself:

What could you do with an unwavering level of self-discipline?

What could you do with the unrelenting, gritty self-discipline of a U.S. Navy SEAL?

How would your life look?

What could you achieve?

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Navy SEAL training is the toughest on earth.

SEAL trainees go through a grueling six months of BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training before graduating as a Navy SEAL.

But its not as simple as that.

Up to 80 percent quit before successfully graduating as a Navy SEAL.

Only the best of the best get through. The toughest of the tough. Only those with unimaginable mental toughness and sheer grit.

During the toughest, most difficult parts of SEAL training, instructors often shout:

Were not going to stop until we get at least one quitter.

And theyre not kidding.

That leads us to only one question:

What are the traits of the toughest, deadliest Navy SEALs?

The ones that make it through the most grueling six months of training on earth?

That dont quit?

That claw their way through the toughest challenge of their entire lives?

How do they do it?

Well, youre about to discover how.

To internalize the 7 principles Navy SEALs live by, read on.

To equip yourself with the techniques Navy SEALs use to not only endure but conquer the toughest situations imaginable, read on.

To apply the Navy SEAL ethos to your own life with spectacular results, read on.

Its 10 percent physical strength

and 90 percent mental strength .

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.

Orson Scott Card, Earth Awakens

Navy SEAL Principle #1: You are responsible for absolutely everything

THE PRINCIPLE

There is no one else to blame.

Jocko Willink, former U.S. Navy SEAL

Everything is your fault. It sounds terribly harshheck, its probably not even truebut that is the foundational attitude of a Navy SEAL. They take absolute responsibility for everything. Theres no blaming. Theres no complaining.

This attitude is essential to dominating life and conquering your goals (and any obstacles you meet) like a Navy SEAL. The first step to working toward your goals is first accepting that the responsibility rests squarely on your shouldersand yours alone.

In his book, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win , former U.S. Navy SEAL Jocko Willink writes the following.

On any team, in any organization, all responsibility for success and failure rests with the leader. The leader must own everything in his or her world. There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.

THE ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAY

In the past, the fact that you are responsible for (almost) everything in your life was obvious truth. But in today's sue-happy safe-space culture, shrugging off responsibility for something you did is the norm. You fell off a ladder? Let's sue the company that made it! You stubbed your toe? Lets sue the tiler! No. That is a loser mindset.

The way of the Navy SEAL is to take absolute responsibility for everything. Even the things that are not their faultbecause they know what they are responsible for is how they react to any given situation, and that's everything.

What you need to doand what Navy SEALs dois take ownership of absolutely everything.

Now, let's take a look at a few examples from my own life.

Just a couple of days ago, I was on a quick bus trip from a nearby university where I go to the gym each morning. Apparently, it was exam time because all I could hear were students complaining about their exams. The victim/loser mindset was through the roof. None of them were taking the slightest responsibility for what was clearly on them. You could hear them telling each other, "I didn't expect that question!!", "Me neither!", "This course sucks", "I know right!", "I have the most awful professor ever, it's so unfair", "Do you remember that question? What the hell, right?", "It's so hard", and so on.

You might be thinking, well, they're just university students, surely people grow out of that, right?

No. Not true in the slightest. For 99 percent of people, it continues for the rest of their life. "I have the worst boss ever!", "What the hell, I should have got that promotion!", "My salary sucks, why won't they increase it?", "The government is so terrible, my pension is so small I can't afford anything", and so on.

You will never catch a Navy SEAL so much as thinking anything like that. They take complete responsibility for everything in their life. They know it's all on themeven the things that, at first, appear to be somebody (or something) else's fault.