Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

by Jesse Itzler

When I see or read about someone interesting, I call them up and basically ask them to be my friend.

In looking back on it now, I’m not sure SEAL was wrong. He was taught that if you have a job to do, you do it with 120 percent effort. I have been operating under the assumption that if someone that works for me does something 80 percent of the way I would do it, that’s enough. SEAL is teaching me that we can all do so much more.

There’s generally a moment in every endeavor I undertake, be it business, love, or fitness, when I say to myself: What the hell was I thinking?