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Staring Down the Wolf
Part of 5/20

erence to push forward the team committed. The training exercise ended with everyone thrown overboard and several people in the hospital with broken bones. 
McRaven made a huge mistake risking his team’s trust in the process. And for SEALs trust quite literally has life-or-death consequences. It’s also critical to staring down your fear wolf. Without it doubt creeps in making it harder to commit to what’s needed for success.
The key message here is: Build trust by committing to transparency humility and follow-through.
Luckily for McRaven he successfully faced his fear wolf of failing and bounced back gaining even more respect in the process. But why if the exercise was a failure did McRaven still have his team’s trust? Well it’s not always about success. In fact how you handle failure counts just as much if not more.
McRaven was transparent about where he went wrong. Instead of running from his mistakes he took responsibility and acknowledged that he had underestimated the waves.