Hard Won Wisdom

It's a story as much as a self-improvement book. Sep 10, Joe rated it it was amazing. This guy is a Renaissance Man- warrior, philosopher, humanitarian, and hopeful statesman. Undoubtedly a personality to watch for in the future. Feb 01, Lauren rated it it was ok. Greitens needs to step off his pedestal of self-importance. Book is unorganized and boring.

Author thinks too highly of himself. Jan 03, Rachel Bayles rated it it was amazing Shelves: These are the things that wise older brother we could all use would tell us. As good a guide to life as you are likely to find. Mar 01, Timothy Tenbrink rated it it was amazing. Challenging read because of the format but tons of wisdom and practical life challenges. Mar 04, Keenan Burke-Pitts rated it it was amazing Shelves: Timeless wisdom that has withstood the ages. This book encapsulates what good philosophy is in my opinion: If I ever meet the author I owe him some combination of a firm handshake, a hug, a beer, a bow for his support and compassion through hard times.

I find it interesting that more often than not when y Great read! This book illuminates how vital it is to truly confront our own defense mechanisms. No one escapes pain, fear and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength -- if we have the virtue of resilience. Resilient people do not bounce back from hard experiences, they find healthy ways to integrate them into their lives. Can you define jass, or ballet, or painting? The tree needs good soil and good sun. People need a life that affords them scope.

Starving people find it hard to flourish. Flourishing is a condition that is created by the choices we make in the world we live in. We find it hard even to say what it means to flourish, let alone to actually flourish. And through practice, we can become who we want to be. They see someone who acts out of habit as an automation who lives without choice. But consider the ways in which habits can liberate you. That fear will manifest itself in many ways: Every worthy challenge will inspire some fear. To have a vocation, then, is to have work that you feel you have been called to.

Your purpose will not be found; it will be forged. What people experience as revelation is often a result of their resolve. Take a disciplined look at your actions. Ask the hard questions. Education is different from training. Education aims to change what you know. Training aims to change who you are. Practicing practice will enable you to -- in the words of the old Army commercial -- be all that you can be.

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Though there are many kinds of pain, all of them can be divided into two camps. There is the pain we seek. And then there is the pain that seeks us. The pain that comes from study, from training, from pushing ourselves -- all of that, as unpleasant as it might be to bear -- is pain we seek.

Because we have brought it into our lives, it is easier to understand, plan for, and work through. But there is also the pain that seeks us. In its milder forms, this pain is just the unfortunate and bad stuff that happens in a normal day. But in its most virulent form, this pain is the stuff of tragedy This is a different kind of pain, and philosophers and theologians and counselors and pastors and priests and poets have all tried to explain where it comes from and what it means.

Unlike a pain we might seek when we set out to accomplish a goal, the pain of fortuna hits us without regard to our desires and often without warning. Fortuna suggests that certain things are written into our lives, certain events are beyond our control. There is no easy answer for this pain. There is no pill to take, no prayer to make that lets us wake the next day without pain.

At some point, we all have to wrestle with the pain of fortune. All that can really be said about this kind of pain was summed up by Seneca: There is a season to be sad. Allow yourself to be hurt. That tension and worry is part of a well-live life. You often do have a choice about whether you suffer, because suffering is created by your perception of, and relationship to, pain. You have to look at it, analyze it. Instead of being in pain, you are now thinking about what the pain is doing to you. But there is wisdom in recognizing that certain attachments can be unhealthy and cause us pain.

And part of the art of living is knowing the who, what, when, where, how, and why of being attached. Start with a hypothesis, and then -- no matter how good it makes you feel, no matter how commonsensical it sounds, no matter whose authority you have to back it up -- test it. See how it stands up to the facts of the world. Then let the results of that test -- whether they affirm or contradict your hunch -- shape your understanding. But to do this, you need to do more than just hypothesize and more than just act.

You have to reflect on your experience. Sometimes complex things must be appreciated in their complexity. But we can always seek clarity. A mentor who knows one but not the other may be good, but isn't really great. What does it mean for someone to know your challenge? To know your challenge means to have experience of the central question before you. Unfortunately, a lot of bad advice is given, and taken, because people fail to identify the central question they face before acting.

People can work with others and not feel any sense of common cause. Being in the same place, working for the same boss, even doing the same tasks can breed resentment, alienation, competition, and distrust just as easily as they can bring people together. The magnanimous person is not grasping, insecure, or jealous, not small or mean. The magnanimous person does not bear grudges or seek revenge. Rather, the magnanimous person is generous, eager to do a favor, quick to forget an insult, independent-minded, brave in the face of danger.

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The magnanimous move and speak with well-earned confidence. They are -- the word sounds old-fashioned now -- noble. People on successful team can often find ways to be generous and kind with each other. Real success is usually a product of struggle.

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To inspire is to help someone answer a simple question: If you want to inspire belief, believe. If you want to motivate, be motivated. If you want to lead, get yourself right first. If work is up, life is down. If life is up, work is down. More of one means less of the other. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.

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Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Telling stories can devolve into delusion and fantasy just as often as it helps you to dig deep and push through. And while they do this, time goes by and is lost. Why worry about building resilience and creating happiness now? Why not put it off until tomorrow, or next week, or next year? None of this is news, Walker. Forget to long and you can spend a lifetime postponing and procrastinating. You study but never act. You plan but never traveler.

The urgency that comes from limited span of our lives pushes us to find meaning in the time we have. But fear death, obsessing over it, staring directly at it, blinds us to the possibilities of living. The resilient person learns to live with the knowledge of death without being overcome by it. How do you do that?

Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

Remember how, in the letter on practice, I said that you can practice anything? They did it because they wanted to live more fully. But now I want to add: Not all of life is overcoming. Not all of life requires resilience. We should move through suffering to strength.

We should move through pain to wisdom. We simply have to be, and to practice the virtue of restful joy in a world that is not at rest. So, Zach, whether you use a religious tradition to sanctify time or you find your own way of setting time apart, what matters most is that you find time to stop.

Stop striving, stop struggling, stop thinking about how to be resilient. Find joy and rest in a world that never stops moving. Take a long walk. Eat a slow meal. Pick up a book. Spend time with people you love. The Sabbath is the counterbalance to resilience. Excellence and enjoyment, resilience and rest: Jun 05, Coyle rated it liked it. A few thoughts on this book by our current governor: Or, you know, resilience to everyone involved. I'm not a psychiatrist, so I have nothing to say about its usefulness there.

If, however, this is some kind of statement of life principles for, well "living a better life" overall, on the other hand, I have some issues. Which isn't to say I disagree with everything in the book--in fact I agree with a lot of it. Resilience is in some ways just an updating of ancient Stoic philosophy into the modern setting. Which means it has all the strengths and weaknesses of ancient Stoicism.

For example, some of what he has to say about virtues like endurance and courage and such can be useful.

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On the other hand, there's literally nothing in this book about virtues like forgiveness, compassion, or perhaps above all humility. I particularly disagree with this worldview as a Christian. I admit that there are times when "get tough and get to work" is what people need to hear--but only times.

What people always need to hear is repent and believe the Gospel. Though Greitens does not specifically make this argument in the book, the implication is clear enough. And, well, that's enough. I won't say not to read it--again, there is some good stuff herein. I will say to read with with a skeptical eye to how far its application extends in the whole of life. Oct 02, David Schroeder rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is perhaps one of the most important books to our development as human begins. I love the style Greitens utilizes as a friend sharing wisdom with another friend.

After all, we as frail people needs good friends and mentors to encourage us along the way. For a long time, I looked at Eric Greitens as someone who is too good to be true. Founder of a non-profit supporting veterans.



Governor of the state of Missouri. His public appearance is of a man who has done all of the right things. After reading, it is evident that he as suffered as most people do and has developed a sense of humility about it. I am grateful for this book and would put it at the top of a must read for anyone wanting to understand their suffering or how to help someone who is going through trials. So many challenging quotes from the book. Here is a sampling. Resilient people do not bounce back from hard experiences; they find healthy ways to integrate them into their lives.

In time, people find that great calamity met with great spirit can create great strength. Oct 16, Stephen rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is one of the most transformative books I have read in all of , both due to its content and style of delivery. The wisdom in this book transcends different moral and religious systems and really targets the heart of what it means to be a good, strong, resilient man. Certainly a book I will be coming back to year after year.

Mar 30, Scott Bampton rated it it was amazing. I brilliant set of letters written by someone with deep knowledge and understanding of what it means to be resilient every day. Exciting, motivating and engaging and hard to put down.

I just can't get enough of the letters with Walker. Every day of reading, I learn something new about myself and I'm better for this. Great book for all: Dec 15, Randy rated it liked it. I mostly listened to this book while I was working on some mindless activities. I found that whenever I actually read parts of the book, I enjoyed it a lot more. Greitens does his own reading for the audiobook and I didn't like his reading style.

He would chuckle through parts of it, sometimes stifle a yarn, and often would end phrases or sentences with a rising inflection making it sound more like a question. It took me about half the book to get past that to where I could enjoy the content. As I mostly listened to this book while I was working on some mindless activities. As far as the content goes, he's got a lot of good stuff in here that resonated with me. I think that anyone who reads this book can take some lessons from it, but I don't necessarily think the book is for everyone.

It took me a while to make it through the book. I think it would be good to read through this book again because he has a lot of good stuff to share, but I just don't think I can do it again. I think I would pick out chapters and re-read those. The book is focused on resilience and that encompasses every aspect of our life, but the biggest thing I really took away from this book is to be excellent at everything you do.

That doesn't mean be perfect, but strive for excellence in everything. That means you will also fail, but that's how you learn to be excellent. For me personally, it's often too easy to give up after failing.

Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens

Failing does not mean you are a failure. It just means you failed and you need to find a different way to succeed. Everything in this epistolar book worked for me. An entertaining and very useful book about a variety of workplace situations, related in a very clear and engaging manner. While the primary market for this book comprises HR departments, managers, employment lawyers, and CEOs, its lessons and tools for example, The Star Profile, the Same Day Summary, the MIDAS touch how to apologize , and the Triple Two c An entertaining and very useful book about a variety of workplace situations, related in a very clear and engaging manner.

Each story comes with a moral, which illustrates much of the hard-won wisdom Mr. Janove has garnered in his long experience working in virtually every kind of conflict situation in the workforce. I recommend it highly! John rated it it was amazing Jan 21, Katie Oliver rated it really liked it Jul 08, Raphael rated it it was amazing Dec 17, Jennifer rated it it was amazing Aug 03, Linda rated it really liked it Dec 01, Cavak rated it really liked it Dec 15, Karina marked it as to-read Oct 31, Emily Florio added it Nov 29, S P marked it as to-read Jan 03, Evangelia marked it as to-read Jan 05, Allison Medina marked it as to-read Jan 15, Allie marked it as to-read Jan 21, Daniel Wagner marked it as to-read Feb 13, Monica Fryson marked it as to-read Feb 14, LaVerne marked it as to-read Feb 14, In another letter to his friend, Greitens writes about pain, stressing the difference between physical pain and emotional pain, and pain we seek and pain that seeks us.

He offers the following advice on pain: Greitens also gives advice on the notion of freedom, telling Walker that he should "give yourself the freedom to live a life that's balanced -- not like a seesaw but like a beautiful work of art. Publishers Weekly said that "Greitens sets out a series of practical lessons designed to move his friend—and readers—past difficulties. Resilience is filled with solutions, passion and compassion. Every veteran of every war should read this invaluable book.

So should their families. So should every American. The Military Times described it as blending "philosophy that elicits Emerson , Epictetus and other familiar male voices with self-help that tries to avoid "happy-clappy nonsense. Bloomberg Markets called Resilience a "must read".