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Staring Down the Wolf
Part of 15/20

happens after they fail. They don’t just accept defeat and let their fear wolf in – they bounce back. This resilience makes all the difference. By learning from their mistakes being adaptable and refusing to quit SEALs make the best out of bad situations and learn how to prevent them from happening again in the future.
The key message here is: To become more resilient focus on being adaptable and maintain a positive attitude.
Ambitious missions can lead to big failures. In 2005 Marcus Luttrell was in Afghanistan as part of a four-man recon mission. When their location was inadvertently exposed to enemy combatants they had to scramble to extract themselves. Sadly Luttrell was the lone survivor.
He was injured but he didn’t quit. He managed to escape and a local Pashtun villager sheltered him until he was rescued a few days later. But that’s not the end of Luttrell’s story – after he recovered from his injuries he redeployed with a different SEAL unit. It was only after he was injured