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Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
By Dan Crenshaw
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9 minute read
Published Apr 7, 2020
What you'll learn
After losing his mother to cancer as a young boy and his right eye to a homemade bomb in Afghanistan, Congressman and ex-Navy Seal Dan Crenshaw has learned some things about rolling with the punches and meeting difficulties well. He offers an antidote and alternative practices for a society that’s begun thriving on indignation and blame.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Outrage is not a virtue—and it’s corrosive to democracy.
- 2 Perspective will keep us humble and dampen our entitlement.
- 3 What you want to do is a far less important question than who you want to be.
- 4 Entertain Plan Bs too often and you’ll stop persevering long enough to carry out Plan As.
- 5 The right kind of shame has its place.
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