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Brotherhoods Are Formed On The Road

The real reason SEALs travel away from home to train. 

The Disease of Domestication - Authenticity

Since I left the SEAL Teams, few things have disgusted me more than people's weak-ass ability to be authentic with one another. I had become accustomed to being surrounded by men who wouldn’t hesitate to call me out when I was bullshitting myself or those around me:

“Laundry in the middle of the night?”

“Yeah, I just spilled something on my pants.”

“Bullshit! You passed out and pissed yourself, you drunk bastard.”  

Now, I am no longer surrounded by men who have the balls to talk about the deprav...

SEAL Sniper Father - KTLA News Response

Questions Answered:

Why I Wrote This Book?

Navy Seal Training seems like an extreme technique when dealing with children. How do you tailor it from the needs of these military specialists to the needs and abilities of children?

What is Lead From The Front?

Describe these Navy SEAL Mindsets

If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday

Methods vs. Principles

What Makes A Good Sniper? Was the Question they...

asked me while doing interviews for my book release. I of course talk about focus, but what really came out in this interview was the discussion about methods vs. principles.

The application of this principle of principles applies to Snipers, Parents, Sales Teams and anyone who's after breaking through performance barriers.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successf...

Parents Giving Up On Dreams

If you have or are giving up on your dreams because you have kids,you should watch this video.

Debrief:What dreams, little or big, have you let go or are not pursuing now because of someone else?What questions does this bring up for you?How can I help?

Live a good life and lead others to do the same.

Eric

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3 Ways To Prepare Kids For Life: SEAL Pups

As a former SEAL, I don’t think twice about tying my kids’ hands behind their backs and binding their feet together before I toss them into the pool, an exercise called “Drown Proofing” that I learned in training. I completely understand that some parents find this type of activity to be shocking or extreme, but I prefer to think of it as exceptional. And don’t we want to raise exceptional kids?

My book Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons, I tal...

Throw Your Kid Off A Cliff

I feared I had lost my son to his friends and to teenage life so I lured him into the High Sierra to celebrate his 18th birthday, and then threw him off a cliff.

Extreme, I know; but for those of you who work long hours, travel often, or ever worry about spending enough time with your kids, you can understand why I had to do it.

I had been gone so frequently, and had been so busy when I was home, that I went almost two months with hardly saying a word to him.

After spending over 16 years in the...

YOU ARE WHAT YOU'RE READY FOR - A PHILOSOPHY

They say that Luck Favors the Prepared. I say: "You are what you're Ready for."

There are many similar mantras that get slung by the Boy Scouts: "Be Prepared" or the tactical type, "Always Be Ready." Both of these terms imply a state of readiness in preparation for an emergency, attack, or survival situation, but neither address the disaster that most of us are already right in the middle of. The disaster of an unadventurous life. To understand my point, as well as this philosophy, you'll firs...

Bred to fight and hunt

In John Medina’s book “Brain Rules”, he claims that “The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion.” He calls this “the brain’s performance envelope.”

A bulk of our time on this planet has been spent running down prey in dangerous situations to survive, and over multiple generations, we’ve evolved to those standards. Is it any wonder that when we don’t get out and “Get after it....

Shape Shifting - Sheep Dogs & Sheep

My plan? Hide in our room and call the cops.

I had let too much time go by without a gun in my hand allowing the worst to happen. The natural digression from “Sheep Dog” back to “Sheep” had begun to occur and I had no one to blame but myself.

I had realized it when the instructor was demonstrating how to keep your gun above head height when running the “Package” out of a danger area.As he was demonstrating the technique he said: “Or say you’re moving your wife and children to safety”.

As soon as...