Fortitude
American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
Dan Crenshaw
Jordan Peterson's
In 2012, on his third tour of duty, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's left eye recover partial vision. And yet, he persevered...
It was mentioned that Dan Crenshaw wrote a book about the importance of mindset, personal responsibility, and how to deal with adversity, like developing mental calluses.
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I mean, this is why I wrote a whole book about this. It's called Fortitude.
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It was mentioned that Dan Crenshaw wrote a book about the importance of mindset, personal responsibility, and how to deal with adversity, like developing mental calluses.
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I mean, this is why I wrote a whole book about this. It's called Fortitude.
That's a quote from my book and my staff always reminds me of it every time I complain about a meeting that I have.
The book was described as a lovely balance of story, personal story, concept, encouragement, and a clear delineation of political, theological, and psychological philosophy. It was particularly relevant during the pandemic because it focused on lessons of fortitude and empowerment.
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I've also read his book, New Book, Fortitude, something Dan knows something about, by the way, Fortitude, American resilience in the age of outrage. And I really liked the book.
— Episode: 286. Navy SEAL Mindset | Congressman Dan...
Episode: 286. Navy SEAL Mindset | Congressman Dan Crenshaw
The book was described as a lovely balance of story, personal story, concept, encouragement, and a clear delineation of political, theological, and psychological philosophy. It was particularly relevant during the pandemic because it focused on lessons of fortitude and empowerment.
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I've also read his book, New Book, Fortitude, something Dan knows something about, by the way, Fortitude, American resilience in the age of outrage. And I really liked the book.
I would say that it provides each of us with a range of talents and a reach range of temptations and it's something like that so it's the hand-wredelt and there's certainly a genetic element to that our genetic makeup imbues in us certain proclivities but it is true that character is mostly a consequence of choices strangely enough we all make them and we should make them deliberately with the knowledge that these choices are part of our responsibility toward a purpose other than our own selfish aims.
It is true that character is to some extent innate.
That responsibility is to your family, friends community and country.
And so I really liked that it's defining you know what we what Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence this this right to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness and you know those are those those words get thrown around a lot and some people might say well pursue my happiness that means pursue whatever ends I want right pursue whatever it gives me that short-term gratification pursue whatever makes me just feel good but there's a difference that's what right and I don't think that's what the founders meant there's a lot of evidence for that because what they meant was the pursuing of purpose you know the idea that that some sort of purpose in your life is what what makes you happy and not and that there's there there is a given set of traditions and social interactions and and standards of living that genuinely make people happier.
Episode: 214. Fortitude: American Resilience | Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw's book, published in April 2020, is a guide for building mental fortitude, using stories from his Navy SEAL experiences, philosophy, Bible verses, and pop culture. He described it as a high school level version of Jordan Peterson's '12 Rules for Life', providing readers with lessons and concepts on overcoming adversity.
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Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
Fortitude American resilience in the era of outrage
I kind of describe it as like a Jordan Peterson 12 rules for life but like the JV version.
I've very specifically trying to guide people through how to build more fortitude, more mental fortitude.
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