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- Page 26 and 27: Second grade in BrazilAnnunciation
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- Page 32 and 33: CHALLENGE #1My bad cards arrived ea
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- Page 39 and 40: even without Wilmoth, we made the m
- Page 41 and 42: My only saving grace that week was
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reinvent yourself. Maybe you’re g
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become just another statistic is be
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By the time I graduated, I knew tha
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CHAPTER THREE3. THE IMPOSSIBLE TASK
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We were on the exterminator’s reg
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When it came time to take the swim
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mind.It all came to a head six week
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and that’s a haunting feeling.
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290 lbs at the beach in 1999***The
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me, but after the show ended I walk
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These days Steven Schaljo likes to
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The referee hits six as Rocky grabs
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putting in, and he reminded me to k
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with a dash. There were about thirt
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minutes I got out and started runni
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CHAPTER FOUR4. TAKING SOULSThe firs
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your mindset, which is exactly what
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We’d been in BUD/S for nearly thr
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on. Instead, as the night wore on,
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I took the lead of Boat Crew Two fr
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through it. With a look or a few wo
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pocket to scarf on the beach when t
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Since that night in Hell Week, I’
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green army tent they’d set up on
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view thanks to a four-foot wind swe
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felt because I was there when my Pa
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“Your knee looks pretty bad, Gogg
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Each student had an instructor assi
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my brain that allowed me to flip th
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minutes before came rushing back. I
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a test of how well you are managing
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themselves one minute more.But I wa
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She left me alone, and I sat on tha
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the sharpest sword ever made!***I s
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started caving in on him.“I start
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minutes later, he still wasn’t br
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Our first training run that day was
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bottom, took off their weight belts
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Mom and I at BUD/S graduationOn the
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CHALLENGE #5It’s time to visualiz
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CHAPTER SIX6. IT’S NOT ABOUT A TR
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woods in their goddam tents made ou
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of these things is not like the oth
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Before training begins, each incomi
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design, all I could see were swervi
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They eventually loaded up into two
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mental toughness” he’d ever see
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wide, pulled my ears and slapped my
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Inagaki breezed by me and glanced o
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down and bless my ass. I did this!
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But digging into the Cookie Jar whe
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imagine what I could do with a litt
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CHAPTER SEVEN7. THE MOST POWERFUL W
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me. Once again I’d have to prove
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was all a beautiful blur to me as I
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During my first real deal week of t
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enjoy Hawaii and leave the sufferin
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Darkness descended and left us with
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fear and insecurity, and it uses al
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gained, even if it’s only practic
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was in the laboratory, still in dis
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sapped my confidence. Plus, word ha
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of having to take on an additional
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Although Akos set a fast pace, the
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With Jurek on the hunt, I was inspi
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needles as Kate unlaced my shoes. T
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Valley. Near the end of another hor
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CHAPTER EIGHT8. TALENT NOT REQUIRED
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swims, just two in the open water,
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me replacement water bottles, packe
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The Land Shark was crowned Ultraman
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The trouble we faced as an organiza
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long as they kept an open mind, aba
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I have several stories like that. M
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how I do it too, because that is th
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tightened up that day and at the ha
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Maryland, in a legendary endurance
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“Holes don’t just open in your
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Roger that, I thought, as I dropped
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After second heart surgery
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CHAPTER NINE9. UNCOMMON AMONGST UNC
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SQT graduation (note the blood stai
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women on Twitter; talk about being
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let up. While people were out at ni
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looked the same. Officers lost rank
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capped three separate phases of tra
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The final weeks in Ranger School ar
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ready. This time we all knew we’d
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As far as I was concerned I had my
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Platoon dynamics aside, there was s
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start at zero and screen for Delta
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to relieve the pain. I moved slow,
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CHALLENGE #9This one’s for the un
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Delta. He signed my papers, and aft
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Chosen as Sailor of the Quarter, Ja
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I was beyond confident. In my mind,
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***It was time to go back to being
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Billboard during my recruiting days
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minute, but it wasn’t easy becaus
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system and my upper body was a lump
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short bar, because bending your leg
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the minute. The pain was excruciati
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Emotionally, I was wasted. Not just
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Luck is a capricious bitch. It won
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experimented with all different typ
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percent and hit the point of total
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CHALLENGE #10Think about your most
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drifts were piled much higher. My f
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Toes after Frozen OtterTwo years ea
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high, but part of that was the alti
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adrenals are drained and your body
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from my past and used it as fuel to
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can then be maintained, he said, wi
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the desk at work, especially when I
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became a college administrator. He
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We live in a world with a lot of in
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will be plenty of both I’m sure,
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of my better times in life hanging
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Doc Schreckengaust, thank you for p
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