CHAPTER 6
LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT HUMAN RESILIENCE
The authors’ quest to understand human resilience began as three very different journeys stretching over the course of almost 140 years of collective experience. One journey was that of a researcher and clinician seeking the “truth” to make others stronger. One journey was that of a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and grieving father seeking to help others so that they would never have to grieve as he did. The third was the journey of a U.S. Navy SEAL as part of a commitment to his SEAL brothers that began in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training.
But a fourth journey was soon to be revealed—our collective journey. One in which we analyzed our respective experiences for common ...
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