The Way of the SEAL

Think like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed: Updated and Expanded Edition

By: Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhertz Machate

Narrated by: Mark Divine

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

Blending the tactics he learned from America's elite force with lessons from the Spartans, samurai, Apache scouts, and other great warrior traditions, Mark Divine has distilled the fundamentals of success into eight powerful principles that will transform you into the leader you always knew you could be. Learn to think like a SEAL and take charge of your destiny at work, at home, and at life. 

Want to be tough? Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it's too late? In The Way of the SEAL: Updated and Expanded Edition, retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Along the way, you'll reaffirm your ultimate purpose, define your most important goals, and take concrete steps to make them happen. 

In this updated and expanded edition, timely new chapters apply the principles to leading in an ever-accelerating world and leading in teams. Plus, new key takeaways distill the principles in the book into easier-to-use chunks.

©2018 Mark Divine (P)2018 Tantor

Good listen.

Good content. A little too much product promotion for me. I will use some of these tactics.

Great book, and performance by author

Better than the online content in my opinion. Great compliment to the other seal books like extreme ownership, and raising men. Pace at 1.15 was perfect for me and kept me engaged and interested.

Too Much Info to Retain

The book really needed to come with a PDF file with all the lists and tools, I'm returning the Audible and purchasing the softcover.

Excellent

While many of the principles herein are available in various places - Mark’s way of placing them in a realistic way for achievement was excellent.

I look forward to utilizing the training of this book to push beyond my current goals.

Difinitive edition for me

I already own the previus editions of this book. What made me buy this one is that its read by the author himself. Even if the book turned out completly the same as the last version it would be still worth having just to hear Mark narrating his personal experience and thoughts. Luckily there is new content added as well so win win.

don't bother

a huge amount of the material in this book is almost copied and pasted from his other books. very little was original. from the start of chapter quotes to trying to fit stories to his lessons, the whole book lacked sophistication and clarity. i came away after finishing the book with neither motivation nor clear where to go from here. about 30 tools and even more lessons were gone over, but apart from a few things, most are almost immediately relegated to being vague memory. I regret buying and listening to this book

mark divine is a guarantee

loved it good applicable information

have a plan, stick to it, adapt, breathe, visualization, and track progress

commitment and team building

Lots of great nuggets! Recommend.

The only disappointment was the author’s weak “hooyah” at the end. Other than that, it was fantastic.

Good content with lots of self promotion

The book is good, however much of the content borrows from others and rebrands with the word seal. I really like the meditation and exercises, however didnt like how the author seems to bolster his brand using people and examples of how his practice worked for them. In my experience, I prefer to be introduced to ideas and let me decide if they work. The paper book is better, and Mark might consider redoing the audio books similar to Gogins, almost like a podcast. Mark's pod cast is awesome. The follow on book to this is much more concise with content and the messages are better executed. Overall I really like the actual messages in place of the examples. For some reason I always hear good will hunting, "Mark has the same problem as Chad the stockbroker"..

Life changing potential

I have now been listening to this great book twice in a row and have bought a printed version as well.
This is thoroughly a book that inspire to change and is packed up with exercises that change your life profoundly.
I am now going to implementing and already are using box breathing and meditation with great success.

True Warrior

Amazing book, great take away points and lessons you can truly apply to your own life. What an inspiring writer - if everyone had the same determination as him, the world would be a very different place!

Way of the Seal

Having read the book when it was originally published, the tools it provides are insightful and very useful, a must if your serious about life long development, coupled with the e-course a powerful tool, you got to give the guy credit, he has style - one of the best I have ever read.

I hated the tone

contents are amazing. but the tone is monotonous. Its difficult to pay attention to his voice. its just terrible.