Summary of Eric Greitens's Resilience

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#1 Resilience is the virtue that allows people to move through hardship and become better. It is the result of putting your shoulder into what’s painful, and it makes the difference between success and failure.

#2 We have all experienced pain and hardship, and we have all learned how to become resilient. We do this through practical wisdom, which is embedded in our language, art, literature, philosophy, and history. But in an age of distraction, we’ve lost touch with practical wisdom.

#3 To be resilient is not easy, but it is not difficult. It takes constant practice to make yourself more resilient, but it is worth it. To get there, you must choose to live a resilient life.

#4 I was fortunate to have learned from great examples of resilience, such as refugees who survived genocide, other Navy SEALs who endured the hardest military training in the world, and wounded veterans who have rebuilt purposeful lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822501447

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Resilience is the virtue that allows people to move through hardship and become better. It is the result of putting your shoulder into what’s painful, and it makes the difference between success and failure.

#2

We have all experienced pain and hardship, and we have all learned how to become resilient. We do this through practical wisdom, which is embedded in our language, art, literature, philosophy, and history. But in an age of distraction, we’ve lost touch with practical wisdom.

#3

To be resilient is not easy, but it is not difficult. It takes constant practice to make yourself more resilient, but it is worth it. To get there, you must choose to live a resilient life.

#4

I was fortunate to have learned from great examples of resilience, such as refugees who survived genocide, other Navy SEALs who endured the hardest military training in the world, and wounded veterans who have rebuilt purposeful lives.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

To be happy, successful, and achieve any worthwhile goal, you must endure hardship. The benefits of struggling and facing pain are so valuable that if they could be bottled, people would pay dearly for them. But they can’t be bottled.

#2

The wisdom that we draw from the struggles of our predecessors is not exclusive to experts or professional scholars. It is available to us, and we only have to go out and get it.

#3

We all need courage and wisdom. We don’t look back because life was better in the time of Aeschylus. In fact, in almost every way, life is better today. But to realize the potential of the present, we must heed the wisdom of the past.

#4

There is no simple equation for the good life. The discussion can only be as precise as the subject matter allows. With resilience, you are not in search of an achievement, but a way of being.

#5

A masterful philosopher will use all of the words that she needs and no more. Words have weight, and we have to carry what is essential and leave much of the rest behind.

#6

When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent that they shut out everything else, we need to know