The Selection | Page 1 “THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #1 – DIP IN THE FIRE” PART 1A | 13:49 THE SELECTION Everyone who will be participating in the breakdown of the show The Selection is to choose a number between 1 and 30 and go through the series with that person. WHAT NUMBER ARE YOU GOING THROUGH THE SELECTION WITH? 1-30: _______ Cross off the numbers of those participants who QUIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 THE INSTRUCTORS: Tyler Grey, Former Army Ranger Marcus Capone, Former Navy SEAL Bert Kuntz, Former Green Beret Sean Haggerty, Former Navy SEAL Donnie Bowen, Former Green Beret Ray Care, Former Navy SEAL “We are putting people through something they have never gone through in order to get them a perspective about what their L________ is.” – Instructor Haggerty (?) What’s your motivation to carry you to the end? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Every person has a breaking point. The weakest person is the one who thinks they can’t be B_____________. (?) When have you experienced a breaking point in your life that ultimately taught you something about yourself or life that has made you stronger? ________________________________________________________________________________ What percent of people quit before the end? ______% (?) Does everyone’s stuff look the same in our program? Is this important? ________________________________________________________________________________
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“THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #1 – DIP IN THE FIRE” PART 1A | 13:49
THE SELECTION
Everyone who will be participating in the breakdown of the show The Selection is to choose a number between 1 and 30 and go through the series with that person.
WHAT NUMBER ARE YOU GOING THROUGH THE SELECTION WITH? 1-30: _______
Cross off the numbers of those participants who QUIT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
THE INSTRUCTORS:
Tyler Grey, Former Army Ranger Marcus Capone, Former Navy SEAL
Bert Kuntz, Former Green Beret Sean Haggerty, Former Navy SEAL
Donnie Bowen, Former Green Beret Ray Care, Former Navy SEAL
“We are putting people through something they have never gone through in order to get them a perspective about what their L________ is.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) What’s your motivation to carry you to the end?
“Sometimes you never know a person until you put them under extreme pressure and stress.” – Instructor Capone
“Don’t show me weakness or I will A______________” – Instructor Care
“Remember, it can always be W______________” – Instructor Kuntz
“We need to weed out the ones who D________ want to be here so we can focus on the ones who do.” – Instructor Grey
“The ones who are able to mentally escape from the pain – those are the ones who will get through this.” – Instructor Capone
“There is zero emotion. It’s not personal. You are evaluated on your ability to complete the task up to standard and on your ability to work as a part of a team under high stress.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) How does removing emotion from your performance help or hurt you? Which one will you choose? To be emotional or non-emotional?
“Most people make the mistake in thinking that football camp is a physical event. It’s not. In fact, no serious physical event is ever a physical event.” - Instructor Bowen
(?) Why are you here, participating in our program and sport?
“A Little dip in the fire!” “It wasn’t one or two big things that went wrong; it was 100 small things.”
– Instructor Grey
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PART 1C | 9:52
(?) You have to learn to let the physical part go and get the mental part to take over because you don’t have control of the physical part. How do you do this?
“You embrace the suck… You look at the person on the left and right of you and you say, ‘You know what… we are going to get through this shit together. Let’s do it.’”
– Instructor Care
“Will you stay in there and take it when the shit hits the fan or will you run out the back? Will you quit? What does this do to your teammates when they take it and you run?”
– Instructor Care
Everything is temporary… Be calm and let the pain flow through; it will eventually end.
(?) Who in your life thinks you are going to “Crush It” but doesn’t really know what the task you are trying to achieve really takes or is all about?
It is amazing how much abuse the human body can take.
Everything comes down to M_______________-
“To the person who says ’I can’t do one more’: You have to think about that. Whatever level you think you can push yourself to, there is another level to take yourself to.”
– Instructor Grey
ESSAY SECTION
#1 What family member inspired you the most and why?
“You have to be able to go from 0-1000MPH how fast? SNAP, That Fast.”
- Instructor Care
“Suffer in silence and embrace the suck. Nobody cares. Put out.” - Instructor Care
“You made the decision to come here.” – Instructor Kuntz
“The majority of people who are going to quit are afraid of failure. They will find every excuse to quit and go home and get back into their warm, cozy bed. I don’t have any sympathy for anyone that quits. It can always be worse. Someone out there is working harder than you are right now.” – Instructor Kuntz
“We are putting people through something they have never gone through in order to get them a perspective about what their L________ is.” – Instructor Haggerty
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PART 2B | 7:15
“You find out who is hard and who is there for the right reasons when things get uncomfortable and difficult.” – Instructor Capone
“Shit rolls downhill as a leader. Anything that happens, I want to know about it.”
– Instructor Capone
“That link is supposed to be your force, your Zen. When you lock arms.”
– Instructor Care
“We are programming people to challenge themselves. To know when to work together as a team. They have to feed off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. That’s where the bond takes place.” – Instructor Care
PART 2C | 6:57
“You don’t have to be a strong swimmer to pass anything; you have to be comfortable with yourself and your abilities in the water. I am not the strongest swimmer but I am the guy that will power through the water to get it done, because if you tell me to do something, I am going to get it done. If I don’t get it done, it’s because I am dead or… I am dead.” – Instructor Care
(?) How would this type of mentality affect you as an athlete?
“We constantly question people, and the reason for this is to constantly push them to another mental extreme. We want them to question why they are here and what they are doing. When you start to tune out the noise from the outside, that’s when you will start hitting your stride.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) What’s the outside noise that we must tune out so that we can hit our stride?
“When I am on duty, I am going to push individuals harder than they have ever been pushed before because if I don’t, I am doing them a disservice and I am letting the other instructors down. I owe it to the individuals and they owe it to themselves to literally put up or shut up, and that’s it.” – Instructor Care
PART 2E | 8:24
“Why do we do this? Why do we make you freeze your ass off? It’s to make you mentally tougher and compared to what we do after this training, we are never colder, never more miserable, when you are actually freezing your ass off for 10, 12 or 24 hours. You don’t really think about it; you’re just uncomfortable. Being cold is not really being cold – it’s just being uncomfortable. You are not dead, are you, when you are cold? You’re still thinking clear. You’re just uncomfortable. That’s all. We make you cold so you can learn how to be uncomfortable.” – Instructor Capone
“The finish line is never there…. That’s what I want to get across to these people. Every day in life is a mission.” – Instructor Care
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“THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #3 – MAN IN THE ARENA” PART 3A | 16:05
The credit belongs to the man in the arena.
Now that their bodies are beaten down from a grueling 48 hours… let’s see what their minds can endure.
(?) What do we do in our program to establish a regimented routine of discipline? What could we do?
“You can’t control the chaos of wartime around you all the time, but you can control how you are set up, how you prep and how you plan. If someone has a yard sale for a bunk and you expect them to find their gear quickly, it’s not going to happen. We want them to have everything in a proper place so if we need to move out quickly we know where everything is.” – Instructor Kuntz
(?) What can we do in our program to help us be able to move out quickly? Why is it important that we have standards for our program?
“A leader knows when to speak and when to follow. You can embrace it and suck it up, or you can go down in a blaze of glory.” – Instructor Care
“Small details, everything we say matters. There is a reason. We don’t say anything just to say it.” – Instructor Capone
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“You will be given tasks your whole life, and if you half-ass your tasks, your life will be half-assed.” – Instructor Capone
“When these guys that are 18-19 years old finish this… they go to WAR. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves and start working as a team.” – Instructor Kuntz
“As a leader, shit rolls downhill and you are the bottom.” – Instructor Capone
(?) What did you learn that we can apply to our team from watching them try to put together the gurney to carry the downed pilot?
“You need to start being OK with who you are and stop listening to everyone else if you are going to have a chance to get through this course.” – Instructor Grey
“This is a journey of self-discovery. We create the classroom, but ultimately these people teach themselves about themselves.” – Instructor Grey
“Your past does not have to be your future.” – Roster #11
(?) Who is the person that you are dedicating your performance to and why?
MAN IN THE ARENA | THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 04-23-1910
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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“THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #4 – WEEDING OUT THE WEAK” PART 4A | 15:27
“It’s really easy to do… but hard when under pressure and stress and you have to be still for 12 hours or you get caught.” – Instructor Haggerty
“The #1 lesson I learned as a sniper is patience.” – Instructor Haggerty
“Minutes can feel like hours and hours can feel like days… Embrace it.”
– Instructor Kuntz
“When someone else wants to find you to kill you… it gets real. It’s scary. There is just no other feeling like that in the world. Your breath gets short. Your heart starts pounding. You have to respond to your response.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) “You get what you put into a hide site…” – Instructor Kuntz | How does this quote relate to life and our pursuit of our vision?”
“In the event you get captured by the enemy, you have been there before.”
– Instructor Capone
“Consistently being uncomfortable is going to test you mentally like it never has before. Every person has their breaking point. You just have to hold out as long as you can.”
– Instructor Haggerty
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“The hard part and the scary part is the unknown. It gets extremely uncomfortable when you don’t have any control.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) When is anticipation worse than participation?
“Can you have the discipline to stick with it? It’s about being uncomfortable and being OK with it. You have to remind yourself that you are not going to quit, no matter how bad it gets.” – Instructor Haggerty
“Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy.” – Instructor Care
(?) What’s the thing you hold on to when times get really tough and it gets really dark?
“The best lessons you ever learn in life are from yourself. Discomfort is growth. When you are uncomfortable, you have to change something within yourself to become comfortable within that new environment. That doesn’t happen without painful effort. If you think back on your life, the things that made you a better person were more than likely the most painful and most horrible. Those things made you stronger.”
– Instructor Grey
“The irony is… the more that you are fundamentally broken at your core, the more you will mutate into a better version of yourself and when bad things happen, you keep moving forward. Hesitation in any sense – that’s when everything can collapse.”
– Instructor Grey
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(?) When is a time that you hesitated and everything collapsed around you?
“I am constantly amazed at what breaks people. It’s amazing how things that will destroy one person mean nothing to another.”
– Instructor Grey
PART 4C | 3:24
“When this evolution is over, you’re going to be sore, numb, etc. Keep it in perspective; there have been POWs that have been captive for 3-4 years. If they would have given up mentally, it would have been over with. We want to see if people have the will to get through it.”
– Instructor Care
“We have weeded out the weak; now it’s time to weed out the strong.”
– Instructor Care
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“THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #5 – PASS, QUIT or DROWN” PART 5A | 16:37
THE LESSONS ON THE WHITE BOARD
“The Selection is two-part. It’s individual and it’s team performance. There are constant individual tests because you constantly have to show that you can be a part of an elite team.” – Instructor Haggerty
“If you want to see how much someone pushes back when pushed… make them fight somebody. You will see it.” – Instructor Grey
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THE MATCHES
Roster #11 vs. #15 | Roster #12 vs. #19 | Roster #2 vs. #17 | Roster #3 vs. #6
Roster #_____ vs. #______ | Roster #________ vs. #__________ FINALS #________ vs. #________
“We are trying to get them to develop that switch, that we know this is your buddy… not fight. There can only be ONE. The better the team knows each other, the better the team is. PERIOD.” – Instructor Grey
“There comes a time where you become comfortable. But with that, you can’t become complacent. A good team is ready to go all the time. The worst thing you can do is become complacent.” – Instructor Kuntz
(?) You will become comfortable in our program; we cannot let you become complacent or we will be killed. What does complacency look like in our program?
“It’s easy to beat someone down. The hard part is teaching someone the right lesson.”
– Instructor Kuntz
“We are going to show them that it can always be worse… but there will always be a reason for it.” – Instructor Kuntz
“We have proven we can beat you down and get you to quit. That’s the easy part.” “Getting you to push through and work as a team, that’s the hard part.”
– Instructor Kuntz
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“There will always be something in your life that can put you down, and that’s complacency. Complacency is the same as accepting that you are dead already. There is no room for growth.” – Instructor Haggerty
“Do not mistake our kindness for weakness.” – Instructor Kuntz
(?) Break down the interaction between roster #15 and the instructors. What is your take on Instructor Capone’s comment about belief that you will make it (OUTCOME) and roster #15’s comment about belief that he will do his best (PROCESS)?
“The goal is to get comfortable doing uncomfortable evolutions.” – Instructor Capone
“There are some evolutions that are pass/fail and if you fail, you go home. That’s it.”
– Instructor Capone
UNDERWATER KNOT TYING – 3 KNOTS TO TIE
1. Half Hitch 2. Bowline 3. Square Knot
“You really see the backbone in the ones who fail the evolution and then come back to kick it in the ass.” – Instructor Capone
“Don’t focus on the past; focus on the present and the future. You just did it – you held your breath for 10x longer than you did at first. Don’t underestimate yourself. Be confident. And get the mission accomplished.” – Instructor Care
DROWNPROOFING
They tie their hands behind their back and their feet together, and they bob for 5 minutes in a 9-foot section of a pool.
“You have to stay patient in the face of adversity. You can’t panic.”
– Instructor Haggerty
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“THE SELECTION – EVOLUTION #6 – SEED OF DOUBT” PART 6A | 19:12
Rope Climb w/ 20lb Vest | Kip-Ups | Shuttle Run (22.97)
5-Mile Run 40min | Scored on a system strongest to weakest.
“Go 100% 100% of the time. Go till you can’t go anymore. We have medics here; you will pass out before you die.” – Instructor Kuntz
(?) When you fail something, do you get over it and move on to the next evolution or do you keep thinking about it like roster #3? Do you have nearsighted focus on a 5-meter target?
“Every single task in this world has a standard to get it done the right way. And if you don’t meet it, there are consequences. The easy part is getting them to quit. Just beat them down. The hard part is hardening them up over a couple weeks and getting them to the end of this, where we can give them a task and a standard on something that is very difficult and say “go do it” and we can step back and let them either ignite the fire and go, or let them implode, explode and quit.” – Instructor Kuntz
“SEAL training is crazy. It is extremely hard. But I believe in my soul that if you want to get through it and you are willing to die for it, it doesn’t matter what gender you are. You are going to make it through.” – Instructor Haggerty
“Special attention is the last thing you want unless you are the honor graduate at the end.” – Instructor Kuntz
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“Don’t show me weakness. If you are going to be a F**king animal, be an animal.”
– Instructor Care
“To be good at something as simple as a ruck march is everything.” – Instructor Kuntz
Buy an ALICE frame rucksack with 50 lbs. – it will break you down.
“Stop feeling sorry for yourselves and put out.” - Instructor Capone
“Thinking that you are done puts you in a certain state of mind. We tell them to go again and most people quit. They just did something difficult. There is no way they think they can do that again.” – Instructor Capone
(?) When in your life have you done something difficult? Thought you were done and then got humbled in your next game, etc.?
“The goal is to get comfortable doing uncomfortable evolutions.” – Instructor Capone
“In order to build the perfect ideal person that we are looking for, we have to strip everybody down to the bare essentials and rebuild them. What we want to do is see how these individuals work when they are at rock bottom. And when you haven’t slept, you don’t know where the finish line is, you don’t know what day it is, you don’t know what time it is, you have to find out what your WHY is and find a way to power through it.” – Instructor Care
50 Jumping Jacks, Run up the Flag Hill. Looking for form, technique and perfection.
“Everybody wants to be at the top of the mountain. The problem today is that people want to be dropped off at the top of the mountain and look down. The way we are taught is that you are going to claw, scratch, bite, dig, do whatever it takes to get to the top of the mountain – and if somebody or something says you need to do 50 burpees, that’s just an obstruction in life, that’s the symbolism. The exercise means nothing. If you want to climb up that mountain, integrity is key.” – Instructor Care
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“Imagine what you could get done in this world if nobody cared who got the credit for it. If there was any mindset that Special Operations has, it’s selflessness. It makes you feel liberated. Anything that you do, as long as it’s for something you believe in. There’s no effort, there is no pride, no ego. There is just happiness.” – Instructor Haggerty
(?) Why is integrity so important in our program and in your life?
“People can see through bullshit. People can tell when others don’t have integrity. It’s something that is not and will not be tolerated.” – Instructor Care
(?) How does a violation of integrity hurt you within the program?
What were your top three take home lessons from The Selection that you will apply to your life to continue to evolve into the best version of you that you can become?
*BONUS = MARCUS LUTTRELL SPEECH TO ASU FOOTBALL TEAM • (0:15) - Be a common man with an uncommon desire to succeed. Navy SEAL
core values - honor, courage, commitment.
• (0:50) - We train to become unstoppable.
• (0:56) - Never ever leave a man behind.
• (4:07) - Before you exploit this country you will serve her.
• (4:28) - Still putting foot to ass for god and country.
• (5:05) - As a kid he committed to be a Navy SEAL. Sea, air and land specialist. 65% chance to die in combat.
• (5:20) - From the womb to the tomb. If you are not living and competing on the edge or you are taking up too much space.
• How do you compete on the edge without going over and becoming primal or out of control.
• (6:00) - 18 years old you are a grown ass man/woman - not on mom's breast any more. Ask the question when do you become a man/woman?
• (6:47) - Draw a line in the sand every day and challenge yourself to become more, you can quit anytime you want. Voluntary program. You cross this line I am going to try to break you.
• (7:10) - In competition, let your brain run out of your ears like water and trust your training and your instincts. Trust the teammate on your left and right.
• (7:25) - 300 Push-ups is not a lot of push-ups. Compared to what.
• (7:44) - Be 15 minutes early. If you are the last one in, you are a cancer. Someone is going to get killed or we are going to lose.
• (8:09) - You go up together you go down together, you live together you die together you must be a team.
• (9:10) - Don’t waste my time, it is the most important thing I got. There is only one guarantee in life and that is that you are going to die. When you accept that you are going to die you will be amazed at the life you can live.
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• (10:30) - You are a human being. You are not the Hulk. If you quit now, you will be a quitter the rest of your life. Throw everything aside and come at me. One of two things will happen, you will survive and win or you will die trying. And if you are dead, what difference does it make.
• (11:30) - I was born to be a gun fighter, I wanted to carry a rifle and ENGAGE. PERIOD!
• (12:04) - Nothing I hate more than a phony who claims false valor. Be who you are and be truthful.
• (12:40) - SEAL BUDS Class – 10/164 and 16/254 actually pass and make it. Run 2500 Miles, Swim 200 Miles, 200 Hours under water, 1,347,000 Rounds of ammo.
• (14:50) - I wasn’t married, did not have kids, I was married to that lifestyle. All I wanted to do was grab my rifle and ENGAGE.
• (15:10) - If you go down, don't go down easy. The only way we go down is if we are dead.
• (17:21) - The only way we lose is if we are dead. It is win or die.
• (17:52) - If you are a natural athlete, show it, you still have to put out every day.
• (18:15) - The minute you stop putting out is the minute you don’t deserve to be there anymore.
• (18:40) - More people die in our training than in combat. It is easier to get here than to stay here. Someone else will take your spot – intra-squad competition, IRON sharpens IRON.
• (19:14) - People always remember the one guy who does not put out. As a navy seal, you put our or you die, in softball you just lose. Imagine if you took a NAVY SEAL approach to training each day how much better you could be?
• (20:02) - Be the first one there and last to leave. You have two eyes, two ears and one mouth. Watch and listen 80% of the time.
• (20:38) - Upper classman, anything goes wrong it is on you. You settle it. You MUST take ownership.
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• (20:55) - PUT OUT 100% all the time. How hard is it? You work till you die. If you want to be the best that is the way it works.
• (21:57) - Operation Red Wings: Matt Axelson, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz.
• (23:02) - 4KM = 2.5 Miles – Took them 8.5 hours. Rough Terrain. You could clear 4miles crawling in 8 hours)
• (25:30) - 10,000 Feet elevation. In the mountains it would be 120 degrees in day and then 5 to -3 at night. Do you complain about temperature change when you play?
• (27:36) - Paint our faces and get into the mindset we need to for battle.
• (28:30) - Turn your back on a 12 year old boy and he will cut your head off and play soccer with it.
• (29:15) - Goats show up on the SEALS and the whole mission gets changed. You have to make a decision and move on.
• (34:20) - We never leave anyone behind so we made a move to go get him.
• (36:33) - Towards the end of the fight you did not move until you got shot.
• (38:11) - Spun Danny Dietz around and he went right into a bullet. Died in my arms.
• (38:35) - Bit my tongue, swallowed it. We don’t leave anyone behind, we made a movement to go get Danny.
• (40:00) - Axe was shot in the head. How was he talking? You could only recognize his bottom lip. “I am sorry, I can’t help you bro.”
• (40:33) - Mikey was out on a ledge “Making The Call”. I tried to make my way up to Mikey and I could not get to him. I was (45M = 148 Feet)
• (41:48) - Mikey was screaming for help. Everyone has a breaking point. We train to push our breaking point to its highest level. Put my gun down and covered my ears. Which makes me a coward.
• (42:00) - In the SEAL teams the only way you break us is to kill us.
• (44:55) - I heard for the whole day what they were doing to my teammates bodies. Torture is sitting there knowing that one of your teammates is getting it and there is nothing you can do. A helpless feeling is when One of your teammates is down and you can’t do anything for them. The only reason you should not be there for a teammate is because you are dead.
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• (46:21) - I started crawling. KO’d myself 5 times from falls. What kept me going, friends, family, teammates, I never thought one time they were dead.
• (46:55) - I never once dwelled on the negative. Thinking negative slows you down, it is what cripples you. If you shoot a bullet and miss it you have to move on to the next shot. Just as in softball if you throw a pitch or take a strike, you have to move on to the next pitch. Negativity slows you down.
• (49:39) - I was not going to quit. I was still alive.
• (49:49) - I would draw a line and crawl to it. I did that for 7 miles. You have to have a goal every day.
• (51:05) - This is the first time I ever got mad. Tremendous self-control.
• (53:13) - You hunt something long enough you know what it is when it is staring you in the face. What are you hunting? What are your goals?
• (53:30) - As Navy SEALS we are trained that our bodies are a machines that can be broken and repaired. Our mind is our greatest weapon. When we flip the switch there is nothing that can affect us mentally. Our mind is able to flip a switch on and off. How do you flip the switch from school to softball to separate the two? What is your pre-practice routine?
• (54:20) - Stuck head first into a hole on the side of a mountain for 27 hours.
• (54:40) - 4.5 days they moved me around the village. There is a custom, if you wander into a village and asked for safety they would sacrifice the entire village to keep you alive.
• (55:10) - HONOR CODE: A real man/woman keeps his/her word.
• (55:55) - I did not realize there were any of you that were good people.
• (55:43) - I am so far from being a hero, you would want me in prison.
• (56:36) - NO MERCY - I had a picture a woman who gave me of her daughter and I would look at this and get myself into such a RAGE - I used the picture as motivation to help me get into the mindset to go do what I had to do.. What do you do to get yourself into a CONTROLLED RAGE - A RELAXED AGGRESSIVENESS, RELAXED INTENSITY.
• (57:35) - War is hell.
• (58:30) - The pilot of the helicopter came in to crash. He was committed to landing and saving me or he was going to die.
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• (58:50) - The rest of the platoon was killed by a 12-year-old boy. Marcus did not hear the helicopter that got blown out of the sky. Everyone that knew about the mission Operation Red Wings was on that helicopter.
• (59:40) - The soldiers went back to go get the dead SEALS. They found Axe 3.5 miles from where Marcus said he was. He crawled and walked blind. He was still fighting the enemy. He would never give up.
• (1:00:30) - All I wanted to do was ENGAGE. Where I am from if you lose, you want to go get after the guy who whipped you. I am not going to quit because of a bad mission or a bad game. I want to get back in the fight.
• .(1:01:45) - The pain I felt burying my 67 teammates or in battle was nothing compared to the pain I experienced the day they told me I could not go into combat anymore and be a SEAL. The day my career was over. Imagine what it will be like when your career is over and you can’t play the game anymore.
• (1:03:03) - You always have to have a purpose and have a goal. The minute you don’t you start to die. Write your goals on your mirror so that you see who you want are supposed to become not what you are. What you are is a result of your past, who you become is a result of what you do today.
• (1:04:48) - Give everything you got for your teammate. You don’t let one guy down. We leave no teammate behind. You must know your teammates better than anyone else. We are going in together and coming out together.
• (1:05:05) - If you are in here as an individual you need to leave. You got to be in here to give everything, not for yourself, but for the other people in this room. Everyday someone is going to draw a line. Someone will take your spot. Always remember the hunger. You can always do better. I can always do something better for this guy. Or we both are going to die. Lose yourself and become a team, one unit. We are able to do what we do because we are a team.
FINAL LESSONS TAKEN HOME FROM MARCUS LUTTRELL What were your top three take home lessons from Marcus Luttrell and his speech to the ASU Football team that you will apply to your life to continue to evolve into the best version of you that you can become?
