Resilience
by Eric Greitens
Letters from a former SEAL to a struggling comrade on resilience, happiness, pain, mastery, responsibility and vocation, drawing heavily on Stoic and classical philosophy. The author's later political troubles do not change the fact that the letters are thoughtful and well-written.
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you are in a hard season and want philosophy delivered as personal letters.
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Skip it if…
you cannot separate the book from the author's later conduct.
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Three things you will actually use
- Resilience is moving through pain, not around it.
- Responsibility is the beginning of recovery.
- Vocation gives suffering a direction.
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Read one letter a day and write a reply to it.
Our verdict
Thoughtful letters, complicated author.
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