The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Divine Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1621451097 | Format: PDF
The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed Description
About the Author
Mark Divine served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. The founder of SEALFIT, NavySeals.com and U.S. CrossFit, he has coached thousands of Navy SEAL and other Special Ops candidates, with a success rate near 90%. In his Unbeatable Mind Academy (unbeatablemind.com), Mark trains the public in the eight
Way of the SEAL principles. The author of
8 Weeks to SEALFIT and
Unbeatable Mind, he lives in Encinitas, California with his wife, Sandy and son, Devon.
Allyson Edelhertz Machate (www.allymachate.com) is an editor, writer, publishing consultant, and entrepreneur based in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Readers Digest (December 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1621451097
- ISBN-13: 978-1621451099
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Develop front sight focus. "A SEAL knows he must simply engage one target at a time and not shift focus until he has dispatched that target."
In the business world we have to deal with "multi-tasking" which means we try to focus on multiple things at once. But that does not really work because usually I end up constantly shifting my focus between multiple projects and I never seem to give anything 100% focus because I constantly have those other projects in the back of my mind. I received this book a few weeks ago and decided to try this out. As a competitive shooter I instantly grasped the Authors term of "front sight focus." It made total sense to focus on one target completely before moving to the next target or project. By working a single target (project/task) at a time I find I am not only completing them faster but I also think I am doing a better job at each task.
The book is laid out in chapters with sub chapters focused on the topic at hand. I find that helpful because I can pick it up, hit a chapter, and start reading about a specific topic that I may want to improve upon. Nice and focused, not a lot of fluff or filler. I enjoy a book that is very to-the-point.
The book talks in detail about leadership and developing your own leadership abilities. The Author seems to believe that leadership is not a skill or collection of behaviors, but rather a character. He helps you delve into establishing your "set point", and also gets you to ask yourself what you are passionate about and more importantly, why?
I have read many business books, self improvement books, and other books that try to get you to succeed. I really like this book because it hits many of those topics from a SEAL's perspective. Its a more real-life perspective.
Everyday, we are inundated with more and more information to process, sort, sift and take action on. This information overload is only getting worst and it can make obtaining our goals harder and harder. That’s why Commander Mark Divine’s new book, The Way of the SEAL, is such a needed resource. It provides a wonderful framework to have laser focus during the chaos of life.
Commander Divine is an ex-Navy SEAL who took his SEAL experiences and applied them to everyday life. In The Way of the SEAL, Commander Divine lays out the essential principles that he and his teams followed to accomplish their missions. It may seem a bit extreme to adopt the SEAL’s unconventional warfare techniques to daily life but each one of the eight principles is simple in message yet unconventional in tactics.
I’m especially fond of principle 2, Develop Front Site Focus. At first, it may seem completely foreign to a non-military person (which I am) to focus on the front sight of your rifle but the analogy is a powerful one. By focusing on the high-value targets (or opportunities) in front of you, you can quickly dispatch (complete) them and move on to the next one. This concept is what leads to being cool, calm and collected under battlefield (or boardroom) pressures. With Front Site Focus, you are always focused on what’s important.
Another important concept that is lost in our modern world is that there is “no such thing as perfection, only perfect effort.” This is a simple yet profound statement that has been lost in our instant gratification, look at me world where it’s expected to look perfect, act perfect, have the perfect job, the perfect wife/husband, raise perfect kids, be in the perfect career and have perfect friends.
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