10 Rules for Resilience

Mental Toughness for Families

By: Joe De Sena, Lara Pence

Narrated by: Joe De Sena, Lara Pence

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's Summary

Ten principles for leading your family to true resilience, from the best-selling author of Spartan Up and the CEO/founder of Spartan.

Joe De Sena has spent his life running toward challenge and discomfort. Why? Because how we react to challenging situations defines us and our families. The only tools we have as humans to survive the many peaks and valleys of a full life are preparedness, health, leadership, and most importantly, resilience. Why do so many parents struggle to finish things we start, delay gratification, and protect our health - and why do our kids continue to struggle in every facet of life? Because we haven’t showed them a path to resilience, and we haven’t fought for it ourselves.  

In 10 Rules for Resilience, Joe De Sena outlines his 10 principles for leading your family to true resilience, a term he uses for a body and mind that have been carved out of hard work, challenge, and failure. It takes true resilience to approach overwhelming situations with calm and confidence, to not get rattled, anxious, or angry, and even to embrace failure, setbacks, and redirections.

©2021 Joe De Sena (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Kick Ass Message

Joe hit so many key points in family dynamics that everyone could benefit from hearing the views mentioned. Not just adults but teenagers as well. At the beginning of the book, some things he said about kids now-a-days made me chuckle(laugh) which is hard to do when reading a book for me. Ya, Joe, you got me! Ha ha.
I’m a self-driven individual who loves a challenge and will take on almost anything, but Joe suggested some areas on the home front where I was lacking but my wife was not. That hit me hard because I thought I was thinking the correct path. 🤷‍♂️ Joe made me think more about each decision I have to better push myself in ways I didn’t think I needed to work on.

Hope this motivates someone else to give this book a listen or read to see what they might find out about themselves.

Thanks Joe.

Words to live by !

Amazing read. Loaded with incredible tidbits and tools to live by. So glad I picked this up! Highly recommend!!

Great stuff here!

awesome advice on how to be a better person and raise better kiddos, a must read

Great book on parenting and life

I’ve already purchased the paper copy for my wife to read this book as well. We will definitely be implementing the lessons in this book to raise our kids to become successful adults.

Another masterpiece

After a transformational, behavior, experience that the world went through 2021 to 2022 this book will help a guy not only parents but all they’re looking to be more resilient

Planning to re read every year

Excellent. the book I've been looking for that put into words a style of parenting that my husband and I can both agree on. already starting new strategies and can't wait to see the progress in myself and my kids.

What the world Needs

My wife is pregnant with our first kid. Been thinking about how to take on this new challenge. This book provides a launch pad for re thinking how to build a family starting from yourself.

At the end of the day the change we want to see in the world or in our family starts with us individually.

To the Point... no fluff, just good solid advice.

Joe gets right to the good stuff with action items and sound, timeless advice for kids... But also adults.

Practical and important

The messages in this book are practical and important for the societies I know. Highly recommended.

Everyone needs to hear this message!

This wouldn't just help you raise a good family and tough kids, this would help fix America if we would live with this attitude.
I am constantly having people ask me how we raised such good kids and we used a lot of the same concepts raising my teenage boys. I have yet to have a single parent who actually listens to anything I tell them. I get one or two steps into the process and they cut me off and tell me that they don't have that philosophy or ideas about parenting and they don't feel it's good for their kids psyche and at the same time their kids are across the room screaming and breaking things. I just shut up and let them continue to be wrong.
Great job Joe!!!

Spot on!

Joe is spot on with his analysis of kids, and more importantly the reasons they are like that.

We implemented quite a few of his recommendations into our family, and the results have been life changing, for the kids and ourselves.

Thank you.

Very powerful message

As a new dad, I am looking for people to lookup to and learn from. Joe de Sena is one of them. Although some of his ideas are extreme (waking up the family at 6am for burpees session) the main idea resonated with me and I wish to echo it with my family. Thanks Joe.

Raise your kids to tackle the real world

Clear priciples and guidance read by Joe himself. From one father to another. (Spartan up!)

essential book for parents

the lessons in this book may be hard to hear. but like everything worth doing in life. it's going to be hard. but the results and character in your children will be worth it every tough decision.