Key insights from
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…and Maybe the World
What you'll learn
Admiral William McRaven recently delivered a commencement address to his alma mater, University of Texas. His advice was so well received that he expanded his speech into a best-selling book. Drawn largely from “a lifetime of lessons crammed into six months” of Navy SEAL basic training, McRaven offers some refreshing common sense to a complicated world where such wisdom is sorely lacking.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Start your day with a win by making your bed.
- 2 You will not make it through life by going it alone.
- 3 More important than the size of a man’s biceps is the size of his heart.
- 4 Don’t wait for life to become fair before moving on, or you’ll stay stuck.
- 5 Life is full of challenges, but they will benefit us if we learn from them instead of running from them.
- 6 Stand up to bullies—they only thrive when people are actually intimidated.
- 7 Never quit. Look for hope and share it with others.
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