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

IM AM SEAL.... UGH!

I gave this book a try because who doesn't need a little warrior mind set.

I got one chapter in and quit. There was sooooo much self importance on the author's part. I get you were a Navy Seal. He was making it big before he decided that he should make a career change.

I just couldn't listen to one more minute, I tired. Really I did.

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.

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

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.

It’s a lot

There’s a lot of great advice in this book. I think this is one that I might want a hard copy of as well because the author uses lots of acronyms, processes, worksheets, etc. that you can’t really absorb through just the audio experience. I enjoyed the narration and felt like I got some key takeaways from every chapter.

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.

Doesn't Grab Me

I read a lot of military and leadership related titles. This book just doesn't hold my attention.

Disappointing

I can’t even get through the introduction. For me, the narrator’s reading voice was not inspiring enough to want to learn his message.

I hated the tone

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

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!

A really interesting book

I really like and recommend some of the theories and techniques suggested in this book